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Postcard from San Diego I’m standing with the food writer Ari LeVaux outside the Omni Hotel in downtown San Diego, where tourists zip through the

by Brian Clarey streets on electric scooters and the homeless people don’t smoke cigarettes.

They’re almost exclusively white, the homeless, though the city is as multicultural as any in the United States, with its own Little Italy, strong contingents of Asian and Middle Eastern folk and enormous swaths of Spanish-speaking people.

From where we stand we can hear the sharp, wooden crack of bat against ball and the rising tide of the crowds inside Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, in town for a home stretch against the Arizona Diamondbacks. We can hear the susurrus of the tourists lumbering through the Gaslamp Quarter, the lap of San Diego Bay just over our shoulders.

And we can plainly hear the woman on the phone pacing on the sidewalk in front of us, negotiating the price of a massage, a word she finds occasion to repeat at least a dozen times in this one conversation.

“You just gotta tell me what kind of

massage you want, honey,” she says into the handpiece. “I do all kinds of massages.

Yes, I can come right up to your room.”

We’re both pretty sure there is no one on the other end of the line, that this scene has been created for our benefit.

It’s marketing, guerilla style. We both can appreciate that, though neither are interested in the proposition.

LeVaux has already wandered into the outlying neighborhoods on a taco run — he says there’s no Mexican food of consequence in the Gaslamp Quarter — and in a couple days he’ll scratch his itch for another dish the city for which the city is known: linguine and clams.

I’m after oysters, and before I’m through I’ll have slurped more than two dozen, raw, roasted and Rockefellered.

I haven’t been to this city in almost 20 years. The last time we drove in from Las Vegas, my wife just a few months pregnant with our first. We spent three days in the funky Ocean Beach enclave, never venturing even close to downtown’s critical mass of tourism.

This time it’s business so I stick close to the hotel, never venturing further than my feet can take me unless it’s for oysters or tacos.

Like the clandestine offer by the streetside massage therapist, I let everything else slide by.

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What I’ll do is take a piece of the stem, dip it in a bleach or hydrogen peroxide solution, break it open, take some of it out with forceps and stick it into the plated agar which has sugars, starches and all kinds of carbohydrates in it,” Cathy says. “The mycelium will just grow.

— Cathy Wheeler, in Culture, page 12

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE JOHNSON STREET (S.R. 1818)/SANDY RIDGE ROAD (S.R. 1850) WIDENING FROM SKEET CLUB ROAD (S.R. 1820) TO I-40 IN GUILFORD COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO. U-4758 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present information on the proposed widening of Johnson Street (S.R.1818)/Sandy Ridge Road (S.R.1850) from Skeet Club Road (S.R. 1820) to I-40 in Guilford County. The proposed corridor will consist of a 4- to 5- lane divided roadway with sidewalks and bike lanes.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 14 at the Deep River Community Center located at 1529 Skeet Club Road, in High Point from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than September 14, 2018.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Gene Tarascio, by phone at (919)707-6046 or by email at gtarascio@ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Robert Boot, by phone at (919)431-5276 or by email at Robert.boot@atkinsglobal.com.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam via email at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707- 6072 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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CITY LIFE Aug. 2 - 8, 2018

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY

With a Little Help from My Friends reception @ Delurk Gallery (W-S), 7 p.m.

Opening reception & jewelry making demonstration @ GreenHill (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

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Unwind after work with the local NPR station staff. The crew, looking to get to know their listeners and hear feedback, will reward donations of any amount with a “Radio for Thirsty Minds” pint glass, filled with a choice of brew. Find the event on Facebook.

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Grandmaster Flash @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

This hip-hop innovator, known for being one of the first to manually spin vinyl, emerged from the South Bronx in the early ’70s and his work is still sampled today. Between producing shows like Netflix’s “The Get Down,” the living legend continues to tour. Learn more at theramkat.com.

FRIDAY

Wizard World Comicon @ Benton Convention Center (W-S), 4 p.m.

This weekend-long con features loads of panels, workshops, live music, celebrity guests and cosplay contests.

Looking to level up your cosplay skills? Find workshops for sewing, striking poses, photography and more. Learn more at wizardworld.com/comiccon.

Stop by during the First Friday Gallery Hop for the opening of With a Little Help from My Friends, a collection of collaborative artwork between Dennis Wells and local artists Jennifer O’Kelly, Laura Lashley, Stewart Knight, Chad Beroth, Jack Hernon, Canvas Aesthetics, Donell Williams, Tammy Willard, Dane Walters, Marsha Hierl and Kendall Doub. Find the event on Facebook.

Speak N’ Eye @ Monstercade (W-S), 8 p.m.

Kick off the weekend with Aaron and Joshua Brookshire, the brothers of psychedelic rockpunk/hip-hop duo Speak N’ Eye, on the Southside. Art punk act Z, mathy indie rockers Saucer and post-rock group Old Faith get the night rolling. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY

Household hazardous waste dropoff @ Household Hazardous Waste Center (HP), 8 a.m.

High Point residents (not businesses) will now be able to drop off household hazardous waste at the new HHW Center at 1401 E. MLK Drive. These drop-off events will reoccur on the first Saturdays of October, December, February, April and June. Learn which items are appropriate for disposal, such as aerosols, antifreeze, auto batteries, fluorescent bulbs, polish, stains and pesticides, at highpointnc.gov.

Grand opening bash @ Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co. (GSO), 1:30 p.m.

Head to 504 State Street to celebrate Gibb’s new spot.

They’re bringing back Medley of Moods wheat beer and hosting live music throughout the afternoon and evening: Chuck Mountain, Brandon Wise and the Grand Ole Uproar. Baconessence and Pearl Kitchen food trucks will serve lunch and presto Italian and GT Fusion food trucks will step in at 5 p.m. for dinner. Learn more at gibbshundred. com/event.

Eastern Carolina University metals faculty and exhibiting artists will lead a workshop on ringmaking in the first hour of the evening, prior to live music from Red Nucleus, known for spirited duets on acoustic guitar and electric bass. Enjoy the cash bar and the newest exhibition, Beyond Ornament. Learn more at greenhillnc.org/beyond-ornament.

Doby @ 6th & Liberty (W-S), 7 p.m.

Greensboro’s Doby brings high-energy, danceable funk to the Camel City streets. Learn more at downtownws.com/ music and dobymusic.com.

Imperial Blend @ Center City Park (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Expect to find food trucks, craft vendors and lawn games as the four-piece electronic rock group out of Greensboro lays down a set Find the event on Facebook.

Lecture on climate change @ Bookmarks Bookstore (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Chris Ceston returns to the lecture night series offering a free lecture climate change. Find the event on Facebook.

The Log Noggins @ Little Brother Brewing (GSO), 9 p.m.

The bar welcomes a bluesy, progressive Southern rock band from Asheville. Find the event on Facebook.

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SUNDAY

Titus Gant Quartet @ High Point Library Plaza, 6 p.m.

Bit Brigade @ Boxcar Bar + Arcade (GSO), 8 p.m.

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Bit Brigade will performs rock covers of the Mega Man II and Castlevania game soundtracks as their gamer speed-runs the game live on stage in the private event room. Learn more at theboxcarbar.com and bitbrigade.com.

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The seventh concert of the 2018 Arts Splash concert series features live jazz from the Titus Gant Quartet, known in the Triad for putting a groovy twist on jazz traditions. Find the event on Facebook.

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August 2 - 8, 2018 Up Front

Downtown San Diego fits into a neat right angle formed along the bay, a teeming urban district that includes the historic Gaslamp Quarter, Balboa park, which contains the San Diego Zoo among other attractions, and Petco Park, where the San Diego Padres play 62 home games every summer.

Even on slow evenings the intersections jam with cars and pedestrians, cyclists and tourists zipping on electric scooters. And yet nearly every corner is governed not by stoplights but 4-way stop signs, which seems on the surface like a recipe for chaos.

There can be a couple hundred thousand people and vehicles on these streets during events like ComicCon, or when the Padres games let out. At times like this the city deploys auxiliary police at most intersections to direct traffic, allowing the pedestrians, bicycles and scooters to weave through at controlled intervals. The rest of the time, the various travelers co-exist in an uneasy peace.

In walking through the Gaslamp District, I at first felt these analog intersections fueled chaos as drunken tourists and impatient drivers fought their ways through. But a few miles in I picked up the rhythm of right-of-way, instinctively knowing when to cross in front of them and when to wave them by.

In turn, the communal nature of the downtown intersections seem to breed a feeling of camaraderie among the downtown denizens, or maybe it’s because they have legal weed — either way, it was one of the most peaceful downtown scenes I’ve seen.

The system works best, of course, when nobody jaywalks. But downtown San Diego is a huge tourist area. And the hooples are always gonna jaywalk.

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Gaslighting is a psychological abuse tactic employed to manipulate people into questioning their own sanity. Now, as the president, elected officials and swarms of talking heads normalize deception, flooding the airwaves with falsehoods, engendering distrust and systematically undermining democracy with an increasingly casual air, the term is moving from domestic violence circles into the mainstream consciousness.

Dame Magazine launched “Gaslit Nation,” a bimonthly news podcast, on July 9.

Co-hosts Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior — both journalists — are devoting the first season to a holistic assessment of the foreign and domestic conditions that laid the groundwork for the 2016 election and walking listeners through the campaign cycle knowing what we know now. Their aim is at least twofold: to empower voters before midterm elections and to record an accurate account for posterity’s sake.

They’re brilliant, and uniquely positioned to dissect the dizzying grind of 24-hour news cycles, prioritizing contextual analysis at the intersections of foreign policy, technology, history, culture and justice. Chalupa has been writing about Ukraine since 2011, and Kendzior’s academic research focuses on authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how digital media affects political mobilization, self-expression and social trust. Foreign Policy named her one of the “100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events” back in 2013.

Both sounded the alarms early and often, only to be called hysterical and alarmist, but they didn’t back down and they’re here to help the American public digest the likelihood that Trump is a Kremlin asset. That he, Paul Manafort and network of others are implicated in a vast, decades-long global scheme to subvert US democracy. This is a mainstream interpretation of the evidence, at this point; the president’s troubling associations with corrupt right-wing operatives, white supremacists and Kremlin agents are well-documented.

Chalupa and Kendzior submit a vital framework shift, rooted in close scrutiny of facts: That there is a new world order — an alliance of increasingly wealthy and powerful autocrats — invested in the destabilization of US democracy, and that our institutions aren’t the safeguards many thought they might be. It’s a disquieting wake-up call, even for those who’ve paid close attention. But as the hosts implore, “Don’t hide.

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Restaurateur Lee Comer addressed Greensboro City Council in March 2015 before receiving $375,000 in loans from the city.

compensation claim after slamming his finger in a door, along with uncertainty over payroll, led to walkouts in July, including at least three members of the management team at Morehead Foundry. Comer confirmed on July 16

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that Morehead Foundry was temporarily closed. While a partnership with Raleigh-based Lonerider Brewing Co. appears to be indefinitely on hold, Comer is attempting to reposition her business. On July 23, the restaurateur

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Lee Comer, a respected restaurateur who built a brand around fresh and locally sourced ingredients with her Iron Hen restaurant, promised members of Greensboro City Council that if they approved a $375,000 package of loans, her next project would be “the pride of Greensboro.”

During the hourlong discussion on the item in March 2015, council members argued over who ate at Iron Hen more often. Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann praised the granola at the restaurant, noting that it was made by a local, woman-owned vendor. Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson seconded with an “amen.”

The loan package received approval over the objections of Councilman Jamal Fox, who warned that the deal wasn’t financially viable.

Fox read from a staff report on the proposal: “The level of support is not aligned with the project return on investment to the city. Owner’s equity is not aligned with [urban development investment guidelines] criteria.” He added, “So my question is: If it’s not aligned with the UDIG or it’s not aligned with the return on investment to the city, why is this coming forward to us?”

Council approved the $275,000 loan in a 6-3 vote, with Fox and fellow council members Tony Wilkins and Zack Matheny dissenting. Using money from the city’s parking fund, the city took first position to secure the loan. The separate $100,000 urban investment loan passed on an 8-1 vote, with only Wilkins opposed.

The loan also had to clear a hurdle for minority and women participation. City Manager Jim Westmoreland, who has since retired, observed during the meeting that the $100,000 loan came with conditions for job creation and MWBE, or “minority women business enterprise” participation. Comer committed to modest goals of 5 percent women and 5 percent minority participation.

“We have two different female-owned businesses who are in the process of getting certified themselves that will take

us well beyond your 5 percent goal for women,” Comer told council members.

“We’re working diligently on the minority part of it. I have a staff person that works on that eight hours a day ever since we got our goals.

“We hire all different types of people, all demographics,” Comer added. “Anyone who’s ever been in my restaurant, which I think you all have, you can look to the people that I hire. It’s across the board.”

Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann praised the project.

“It takes a building that’s been sitting empty and doing nothing for seven years and turns it into something with energy and life and beauty and usefulness,” she said.

Councilman Mike Barber said the concerns raised about the project amounted to “a red herring.”

“It is to enhance and help people who are willing to invest and bet on Greensboro, North Carolina,” Barber said. “So that’s really why we’re here.”

Comer agreed to invest $3.2 million to and to create 29 new full-time jobs and 61 part-time jobs paying at or above Guilford County’s living wage of $9.12 per hour.

Since proceeds for the combined $375,000 loans were disbursed to Comer and business partner Dr. Fareed Al-Khori in 2015, Comer’s venture has run into financial difficulties, and the restaurateur recently became the target of wide-ranging allegations of racial discrimination and other labor violations in the wake of a mass staff exodus.

Comer’s team repurposed an early 20th Century industrial building into Morehead Foundry, a modern food-service multiplex that arranged Four Flocks & Larder, Revolution Burger, the Baker & the Bean and the speakeasy-style bar Hush around a shared kitchen, along with event space and Comer’s catering business. The multiplex sits along the Downtown Greenway, fulfilling a civic goal to activate sleepy areas along the downtown fringe.

One year after Morehead Foundry’s opening, Comer was forced to sell the property to Burlington investor Shawn Cummings. As a condition of the sale, the city agreed to subordinate its interest in the property.

Concern over Comer’s termination of a line cook who is pursuing a worker’s

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The city of Greensboro loaned $375,000 to help a restaurateur realize the dream of opening a multiplex food-service hub. Now, restaurateur Lee Comer is accused of racial discrimination and a host of other violations, but other employees and longtime associates say they don’t buy it.

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Greensboro ‘bet on’ Comer before racism allegations, business crisis

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announced the launch of Hen in a “I don’t think that we can project Hurry!, a pre-prepared meal subscripwhether a business is going to hit its tion service modeled after Blue Apron. A benchmarks or not,” Vaughan said. “She press release promises that the first 100 had a great concept. She activated a people to sign up will receive T-shirts corner that was in a blighted area of the that say, “Local is the new black.” city.

After Triad City Beat published allega“If she can’t make it work, I’m sure tions by former Director of Operasome other investor can step in and tions Lentz Ison on July 17 that Comer make it successful,” the mayor added. engaged in employment discrimination Vaughan cited as an example a $200,000 and retaliation, several former employees loan approved by city council in 2012 to have come forward to corroborate Ison’s a trio of investors to develop a parking claim, while also alleging widespread lot, renovate a vacant building and open abuses, including maintaining a hostile a new restaurant off of South Elm Street workplace and sexual harassment, along on the southside of the railroad tracks. with alcohol law violations.

The restaurant, known as the Worx, City officials say that Comer is current closed in 2017, and the original investors on payments for the $275,000 parkingsold the property to an Atlanta-based lot loan. As of July 1, the balance concern for $2.6 million in March 2016. was $271,316. In 2017, the loan was But the parking lot, now known as the modified to allow Railyard, set the an interest-only stage for an explopayment of $577 sion of redevelop“Lee and I met waiting per month. Beginment by developer tables at Longhorn. As ning Aug. 1, the Andy Zimmerman monthly payment and others, includa black person I have balloons to $2,961. ing the opening of never heard her speak in Comer declined to HQ Greensboro, comment on the a derogatory way to black the Forge maker’s future of Morehead space, Boxcar Bar + people or any other naFoundry for this Arcade, Greensboro story. A woman who Project Space and tionality.” answered the phone Horigan’s House of – Davina Coker at Cummings’ office Taps. Gibb’s Hunin Burlington said dred brewery also he was on vacation opened in the area, and would not be available to comment. but has since relocated to State Street.

The woman declined to identify herself.

Soon after selling the property, the origiMayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson, who nal investors paid off the $200,000 loan, voted for both loans, acknowledged in city records show. hindsight that there were warning signs Kathi Dubel, the city’s economic deabout the project. velopment and business support manag“I thought she took on too much,” er, wrote in a July 25 memo shared with Johnson said. “I didn’t say that publicly city council members that the $100,000 in the beginning.” forgivable loan requires that the new Mayor Nancy Vaughan argued that jobs created through the project must be Morehead Foundry’s current financial retained for two years after issuance of a troubles don’t call into question city ofcertificate of occupancy. Dubel reported ficials’ judgment. that Morehead Foundry employed 36

full-time workers and 157 part-timers as of Dec. 31, 2017. The second and final employment report is due at the end of this year. City Attorney Tom Carruthers confirmed to council members prior to approval that the loan has a “clawback” provision if the employment goals are not met. * * * As previously reported by City Beat, Lentz Ison, former director of operations for Comer’s Fresh. Local. Good.

Food Group, wrote in his letter of resignation: “I have been directed to make decisions and take actions that are unethical and are not in the best interested of staff and the community we support. For instance, being asked to not hire eligible persons due to race.” Ison told City Beat that Comer told him on multiple occasions: “I don’t want to hire any black people.”

In previous comments, Comer told City Beat that Ison’s “allegations are completely false in terms of the context that he made them.” Comer added that she employs far more African Americans than whites.

Ison’s characterizations are supported

by Jon Richardson, who said he worked as a line cook at Revolution Burger from late 2016 into early 2017.

“She tries to keep black people in the dish pit,” said Richardson, who is African-American.

He added, “There was an AfricanAmerican employee who applied to be a server and a bartender. Lee looked at her and said, ‘I don’t want you serving my guests.’ She wanted the front of the house to be as white as possible.”

Richardson said that during his tenure, Comer hired a white employee to the position of lead cook even though he was being trained by the other line cooks, who were all black.

“There were five of us that were

completely eligible and that were willing to do the job,” Richardson said. “We all made it clear that we wanted it. We thought we were competing with each other.”

Richardson said he overhead Comer using the N-word in a conversation with a manager, and both parties laughing about it. Richardson said he resigned because Comer cut his hours back, and he believed he was being treated unfairly because he is black.

Crystal King, who identified herself as a former director of administration under Comer, echoed Richardson’s statement in a comment on City Beat’s Facebook page.

“Not only does she use the N-word like it’s a normal word, on several occasions she called white employees ‘white trash pieces of s***,’ King wrote.

Amiel Rossabi, an attorney in Greensboro with expertise in civil rights and employment law, said allegations of an employer using racial slurs could give rise to hostile work environment claims.

Rossabi emphasized that he does not represent Comer.

With regard to employment discrimination, Rossabi said, “Sometimes employees think they’re more qualified.

That’s not limited to color. The white person might actually be more qualified.

It will be determined based upon whose proof is more correct.”

As to alleged statements by Comer that she wants to minimize AfricanAmerican employees’ interactions with guests, Rossabi said, “That’s silly. That goes back to the original Civil Rights Act. It’s simply treating people differently because of their race.”

Comer declined to comment on the allegations of racial harassment and other alleged violations.

Contrary to the assertions of Ison and Richardson, others who have worked for or alongside Comer say the allegations of racial discrimination don’t match

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she pulled me aside and grabbed my ass,” Ramsey said. “I’m sorry — I can’t describe it any other way than that. Her nails dug into my ass cheek so deep I had a bruise. She said, ‘Next time I ask for my f***ing alcohol I better get it, or you’ll be f***ing fired.”

Ramsey said he walked over to Four Flocks and told the staff he was quitting, while asking for a bartender to cover him at Hush because he had a trainee working under him.

“I was abashed; I didn’t necessarily know how to feel,” Ramsey said, recalling the experience. “I’m a survivor of sexual assault. So that brought back some bad feelings. I’m resilient; I knew I would land on my feet. I couldn’t do anything about it because I knew if I tried to go after her the camera footage would be deleted.”

Meanwhile, it’s the charge of racism that has carried the worst sting, so far.

Davina Coker’s mother, Rose Knight, has monitored the public-relations bloodbath with dismay from her home in Delaware. Knight met Comer when her daughter befriended her as a High Point University student. The two working shifts together at Longhorn Steakhouse.

Knight said her daughter “keeps me up with what they are doing as young women getting ahead.”

“I watched my daughter every day,” Knight said. “My daughter has her own business. She has been working diligently and hard at it. She gets up at 7 in the morning and sometimes she doesn’t even get home from work until 9 o’clock at night. That stuff hurts. You have young people that don’t even want to work; you have these young ladies who are busting their ass. Just because you don’t like her, you want to take food out of her mouth?”

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“She said something to the negative a guarantee? If that restaurant treats of, ‘No, thank you,’” Hill recalled. people differently solely based on race, Hill called Morris the next day and that’s a violation.” informed him that the event was off, Rossabi said the only way he could and that he was no longer employed imagine a question about a person’s race with Fresh. Local. Good Food Group. being legitimate in the context of planHill apologized and gave Morris a ning a large event is if the person asking phone number for a contact at Comer’s the question was trying to ascertain the company. identity of a particular person based on Morris said Comer’s representative their race. “If a hundred black people told him they could do the event if Morwanted to rent a space, and the restauris would pay a $6,000 guarantee and rant owner had prior experience with $1,200 for rental of the building, along that precise group stiffing him, he can with an extra $500 if the event went say, ‘I’m not going to rent it to them over time. Later, Morris said after he without a guarantee,’” Rossabi said. “If declined, the representative came back it’s James Smith — ‘Oh, is he black or with a new offer for a $3,500 guarantee white? Because there’s two James Smiths and $1,200 for the rental. Morris said by and the one who’s white stiffed me.’ that time he had lost trust with Comer’s That’s the only way you could ask.” group, and questioned whether they Comer, along with one of her manwould even be open on July 28. agement employees, is also accused of “Truthfully, because I was black I sexual harassment and state alcohol think they thought I violations. was stupid,” Morris Seth Ramsey, said. While praising who said he started Hill as “professional,” working at Morehead “Not only does she use Morris said the overall Foundry in January or the N-word like it’s a experience of trying February, said prior to to work with staff at normal word, on several an incident of sexual Morehead Foundry harassment he had reoccasions she called was “devastating.” fused to comply with Even before Morris white employees ‘white a request by Comer brought his proposal to make margaritas to trash pieces of s***.’ to Hill, he said he felt take off premises. devalued by the wait“That is illegal be– Crystal King staff at Four Flocks & cause under NC ABC Larder. law, alcohol is not “I sat at the bar at to be given away for Four Flocks for a long time, and no one free,” Ramsey said. “It has to be comped came over until Ryan came out.” Morris in some way. It has to be consumed on said. “There were Caucasian people at the premises.” the bar. They were being attended to.”

Jámie Taylor Lynne Richard, a former Rossabi said that, assuming the facts server, told City Beat that on one occasion as presented by Morris and Hill are acwhen she was serving a large graduation curate, the conduct described would be a party at Four Flocks, she watched Comer classic violation of the 1964 Civil Rights pick up an 18-year-old guest’s soda, take Act. it behind the bar and pour whiskey in “This goes back to the real heart of it, and then set it back down in front of the Civil Rights Act, with whites-only the guest. Richard said when she told a restaurants,” Rossabi said. “To the exsupervisor that the guest was underaged, tent that there were accommodations for “I was told to mind my own business.” blacks, they were inferior. That’s where One night, Ramsey said, Alex Dumthis accommodations law comes from. mit, Comer’s executive assistant and It’s in essence unchanged. The hope is director of sales, brought a guest into that [the need for it] would have gone Hush and asked Ramsey to make a away by now.” drink.

Discrimination would have to be “I was taking too long for her, and proven through evidence, Rossabi said. she told me I was ‘the worst f***ing “The various questions you have bartender ever.’” Ramsey recounted. He are, ‘How does this restaurant deal said Dummit came around the bar, and with white people who want to do the started “dry-humping” him, and then same thing?’” Rossabi said. “Does this texted Comer. restaurant ask if the people are white or Reached by City Beat, Dummit deblack? If the restaurant is told they’re clined to comment on the matter. white, does the restaurant owner ask for “When Comer comes down to see me,

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their experiences.

“Throughout my time working there I never heard her or witnessed her be derogatory to people of color,” said Kacey Foster, who said he was hired by Comer to a position of service manager.

“I was told before I started working there that she was a hard person to work for.

That is fairly true. She does come down hard on people. I believe she has high expectations.”

Foster said he put in notice after returning from vacation and learning that Ison had reassigned him. Foster said he was working at the time the management walkout occurred.

Darick Palmer, a black employee who was hired by Comer to a position as bartender at Morehead Foundry, has previously said that he never witnessed Comer make discriminatory or derogatory remarks about employees of color.

“Lee and I met waiting tables at Longhorn,” said Davina Coker, who has known Comer for 15 years. “As a black person I have never heard her speak in a derogatory way to black people or any other nationality.”

Coker recalled that she attended the grand opening of Morehead Foundry with “people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds showing support in celebration of [Comer’s] accomplishments.

“No one had a bad thing to say about her during that event and I don’t have a bad thing to say about her now,” Coker said. “I’ve watched her build success from the ground up, and as a young black female who is also building a business I am proud to call her my friend.”

Comer has also been accused of discriminating against at least one customer based on race.

Travis Morris, who is black, told City Beat that he approached Bar Manager Ryan Hill about holding an event at Morehead Foundry for 100 alumni who graduated from Greensboro’s four high schools between 1986 and 2000. Hill, who participated in the management walkout in mid-July, has previously said that the number of guests was in the range of 150 to 200. Morris and Hill said they worked out a deal where food and drink would be available for purchase on the premises during the event, which was to take place on July 28.

Hill previously told City Beat that he brought the plan to Comer, and she asked if the party was black. Hill said he responded affirmatively, although Morris told City Beat that, in fact, the guests would have been a mixed-race group.

Hill said Comer rejected the proposal after he told her the guests would be black.

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We are the Facebook police All but the most ostrich-like among us now under-

stand that the 2016 election was compromised by Russian interests to benefit Donald Trump, who is now president.

They did it directly, by hacking into the Democratic National Party’s database and, most effectively, through propaganda campaigns executed by paid trolls on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

And we know that they are still doing it. An entire campaign of Facebook ads depicting supposed Democrats who are “walking away” from the party utilizing the hashtag #walkaway has already been outed as fraudulent — the result of stock photo images and conservative dogma. The Twitter tracking tool Hamilton68 recorded known Russian bots actively amplifying the hashtag. Doubtless there are more on the way as the November election looms.

The purpose of propaganda, remember, is not to get people to think a certain way, but to cloud the water, blur reality and offer opportunities to question unacceptable truths. And in the case of #walkaway, which can also be described as a voter-suppression campaign, the point is not to persuade people to vote a certain way, but to persuade a certain group of people to not vote.

We’ve all got to get better at spotting it, and preventing its spread.

The internet was envisioned as a self-regulating environment, where crowdsourced fact-checks could eventually pile up to something approaching an empirical truth. A corrupting influence always existed on the fringes of the digital consciousness, but Facebook and Twitter, specifically, allow genuine propaganda to be disseminated right there alongside cat pictures and videos of white ladies calling the police on black people.

We see these memes in our feeds every day, but the time for passive scrolling is over. There are things we can actively do to stop the spread of false information.

First off, stop sharing memes unless you have done the research behind them. Really, though, you shouldn’t post memes at all unless they are dank and non-political.

It’s good practice to fact-check all the memes that come through the feed — snopes.com is still one of the best fact-checking sites out there despite another propaganda campaign from the right to undermine its credibility, though Politifact, source documents and Census data will often do. Post your rebuttal right in the thread, and challenge the poster to take it down, or be complicit in the deliberate spreading of falsehoods.

Sometimes it even works.

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I may have been wrong about the suburban strategy

I’ve taken the Democratic Party to task over the past 18 months over its strategy of doubling down on an investment in upscale, highly educated, suburban voters in its quest to counter the Trump effect.

Since my most recent swipe at the issue in mid-June, the

by Jordan Green party’s efforts to carve into GOP majorities in Congress and state legislatures has shown some signs of life. I’ve received some pushback that goes something like this: The media keeps hammering at a false narrative that the Democratic Party can’t do anything right.

That criticism discourages participation, and creates a selffulfilling prophecy.

A mild correction may in order, on my part. It’s apparent that the Democratic Party can pick up seats this fall.

And whether it’s curbing the GOP majority in Congress or putting a Democrat in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion, any gains would significantly help the odds of resisting the Trump agenda as the Mueller investigation barrels towards a constitutional crisis. As for the suburban strategy, admittedly Democrats don’t have much choice in the short term.

The name of the game in the three months between now and Election Day is picking up every loose vote on the table, and the low-hanging fruit is in the suburbs. But I’ll stand by my assertion that over the long run, the suburban strategy creates structural challenges because its dependency on wealthy donors and upscale voters will frustrate the party’s ability to deliver policy objectives like police accountability and rising wages to its working-class and African-American base.

Fundraising is the first clue that the Democratic Party is harnessing real energy to challenge GOP dominance.

In race after race for the NC General Assembly, including two House contests in the Triad, Democratic challengers are out-raising Republican incumbents. Anita Earls, a state Supreme Court candidate favored by Democrats in North Carolina, recently announced that she raised almost $500,000, with more than 70 percent coming from small donors who gave $100 or less. And Kathy Manning, the Democratic nominee for the 13th Congressional District has raised $1.9 million, compared to $1.2 million by one-term Republican incumbent Ted Budd. The money pouring into the coffers of Democratic candidates attests that the suburbs around Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem are the battleground in these legislative races.

Manning is running as a centrist gun-control advocate in the 13th, North Carolina’s most flippable district, stretching west from Greensboro and High Point through Lexington, Salisbury, Mocksville and Statesville. In Georgia, Democrats nominated Stacey Abrams, a solid-left candidate who is the first black female to be nominated for governor by a major party in US history. Brian Kemp, her Republican opponent, is an unapologetic Trumper who is running a campaign ad where he says, “I got a big truck just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ’em home myself. Yep, I just said that.” Abrams similarly has not shied away from the cultural battles dear to her base. Last August, follow-

ing the deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Abrams decried the giant carving of three Confederate war leaders on Stone Mountain, saying it “remains a blight on our state and should be removed.”

Even as a history-making black woman who advocates for economic fairness and removing symbols of white supremacy, Abrams’ path to victory runs through the suburbs.

Ironically, Democrats are looking for crucial votes in rapidly diversifying suburban counties like Gwinnett, Cobb and Henry that previously helped Republicans take control of state politics 30 years ago.

While Democratic wins will be crucial to restoring balance in state and federal government, their base will expect results if the party tips the balance. Supporters will be demoralized if Democratic lawmakers don’t hold Immigration & Customs Enforcement accountable for separating families at the border and don’t take significant action to address widening wealth inequality. At the same time, any proactive policy or truth speaking by Democratic elected officials is guaranteed to prompt paroxysms of rage by right-wing patriot militia activists. The problem for the Democratic Party establishment is that they can’t merely move the country back to the pre-2016 status quo, assuming the anticipated blue-wave election. The status quo — including record deportations under Obama, persistent police violence and mass incarceration against people of color, and astronomical wealth inequality for all — is unacceptable to key segments of the party’s base.

Whether Democrats or Republicans prevail in the fall, we’re likely headed for a battle for the soul of the nation that takes place beyond the ballot box. Hopefully, it won’t be a shooting war, but some kind of reckoning seems inevitable.

If Trump fires Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and pardons himself with the support of 40 percent of the population, institutions and particularly a supine Republican Congress are not likely to save us. The culture of democracy — the idea that people who hold different beliefs and backgrounds can come together and work out problems for the benefit of all — has already failed. How could it be any other way when the right is hostile towards not only people of color, immigrants and Muslims, but center-left “libtards”?

“If radicalism be defined as perception of need for radical change,” the great American philosopher John Dewey wrote in his 1935 text Liberalism and Social Action, “then today any liberalism which is not also radicalism is irrelevant and doomed.”

Melvin Rogers’ July 25 meditation on Dewey in the Boston Review bears consideration: “Placing the fate of democracy in the domain of culture requires us in our day, as it did in Dewey’s, that we see our present moment as a fight about what kind of people we want to be and what kind of society we long to create. This way of thinking ran through Reconstruction, the ambition of the New Deal (even as Dewey argued that it could be more radical), and the Civil Rights Movement. Dewey made it the centerpiece of his thinking, and we must make it the cornerstone of our engagement today.”

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CULTURE A quieter, chiller place to hang — and drink

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“We know all of the bartenders,” he says. “And if there’s not something on draft that you like, you can always find something in a can.”

The taproom has 12 rotating taps that change weekly and shelves of cans and bottles that can be enjoyed in-house or taken to-go. They also offer a robust wine selection.

The shop also recently obtained its license to serve spirits. For now, they’re focused on just scotch and bourbon and are even picky about serving those. Most are what Satterfield calls higher-end selections and include some from as far as Japan.

“You won’t find Jack Daniels or Maker’s Mark here,” Satterfield says. “We try to be intentional about what we offer.”

The cheapest glass of liquor costs eight bucks. And yet, the shop doesn’t emit an ounce of pretension. And the bartenders can be credited for that.

Josh Fowler, a graduate student at UNCG and recent transplant from Ohio, lives nearby and is visiting the shop for the second time in one day.

“The staff is really nice,” Fowler says.

“I’ve only come in four or five times, but they know me by name.”

And isn’t that how the song goes?

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by Sayaka Matsuoka ou’re not allergic to peanuts, are you?” asks Will Satterfield as he passes over a sample of Out of the Lunchbox, a PB&J wheat ale by the Bruery. A sip of the stuff and you’re reminded of elementary school days when your mom packed your lunch and you caught the bus to school.

Flowery notes of grape mix with nutty undertones to create a beer that’s at once familiar yet new, comforting yet exotic.

Craft City Sip In off New Garden Road in Greensboro is a lot like this beer.

Housed at the end of an established strip mall just off of Battleground Avenue, the craft-beer shop and taproom offers both the bizarre and plain delicious in a low-key, homey atmosphere.

Satterfield, who’s been working at the shop for the past two years, pours sample after sample, describing each with loving detail. He’s been in the business for a while and says that Craft City is a different kind of shop.

“The people in the neighborhood have a different mentality here,” he says.

“It kind of slows down. People want to come in to relax and actually enjoy what they’re drinking instead of using it as a means to an end.”

Craft City, which is about a 15-minute drive from Hamburger Square, is a refreshing break from the bustle of some of the other beer joints and breweries that are housed in and around downtown. The more suburban location offers a quieter, chiller place to hang. Instead of rowdy college kids, older couples and families fill the space. And while some of the customers might not be hip to all of the new craft beers, Satterfield says that’s exactly why Craft City is successful.

“It works out well because we’re the only fish in this pond,” he says. “We try to help people find new things to try.

Our job is to help you find a beer you’re gonna like while developing your palate.”

It seems the shop has filled a need in the area. On Aug. 11, Craft City celebrates its three-year anniversary with live music and a food truck. Satterfield says he’s looking forward to a busy crowd.

On a Tuesday evening however, a halfdozen regulars sit and chat while the rain patters outside.

René and Rick Zieg, a middle-aged couple who live near Friendly Center, say they’ve been making the trek to Craft City from their side of town for the past three years.

“We’ve made a lot of friends here,” says René. “It’s got a Cheers atmosphere to it.”

Rick, who’s drinking an IPA, agrees and says that the friendly staff and selection

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by Lauren Barber

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he velvety, fleshy, spore-bearing fruits we call mushrooms sit closer to us than plants on the phylogenic tree of life. Still they remain a mystery to many, but for Ernie and Cathy Wheeler, they’re a specialty.

The couple owns Borrowed Land Farm and Fungus Lab which sits in the green foothills of Pilot Mountain on old tobacco land. Though the Wheelers are marine biologists by training, they find themselves wearing other hats more often: teachers, naturalists, mushroomgrowers and state-recognized foraging experts. Vast scatterings of chanterelles decorate their 58-acre plot, but they also forage in state and national forests (not parks) and wildlife-management areas.

“There’s a woman in Mount Airy who’s front yard is covered in beautiful oyster mushrooms, so I embarrassed my kids and went up to her ask if I could please harvest some of her mushrooms,” Cathy says. “She said take as much as you’d like, so I took some and I’m cloning them.”

Their 12-year-old son could only have been so embarrassed, though — he joins the hunts for tasty fungi and is gearing up to take the certified foraging class next month.

The story begins in the year 2000, post-graduate school, when the duo lived in Oregon. Everyone they befriended eventually got into foraging, and once Cathy and Ernie found themselves in North Carolina, they realized they could grow their own mushrooms indoors during the winter.

“We didn’t know anybody [growing mushrooms],” Ernie says. “Some aspects [of our method] we came up with ourselves, but we got books and there are resources online.”

The magic happens in their farmhouse laboratory, “a tiny pocket of cleanliness in an otherwise filthy, filthy hundredand-some-year-old farm,” according to Ernie. It’s currently under renovation.

The Wheelers are planning a partial glass wall so that visitors can view them at work without compromising the sterile lab environment, and they’re almost finished building their new grow space, large enough to incubate 300 pounds of fresh mushrooms per week. There, inoculated “grow bags” sit on metal shelving units and flourish thanks to an industrial humidifier, fresh air circulated into the space and light.

Cathy Wheeler explains how the mycelium grows in the substrate, which grows into the fruit we call the mushroom.

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The bags contain a substrate mixture of sawdust and often their central goals is to help enable others to grow their own beet pulp, gypsum and soybean hull which provide additional mushrooms. They offer free school programs, farm tours and nutrients. Micropore tape covers miniscule slits in the bags to teach classes at nature centers and colleges throughout the release air and protect against gnats. region.

“When they go through that substrate… they’re gonna eat “What’s becoming clear is that other people are seeing their way through it, start to run out of nutrients and then mushrooms as viable for farming,” Ernie says. “A lot of people space,” Cathy says. “At that point, they’re gonna say, ‘We’re start with shiitaki logs for additional income and the more gonna try to reproduce.’ That’s when they grow the mushpeople doing it, the more mainstream it’s going to become. rooms, the actual fruiting bodies, and they need fresh air to do We’ve got to be ambassadors to mushrooms for people to that.” buy them in the first place in this area. But people from the Ernie clarifies that harvesting the mushrooms fruits is akin Midwest talk about hunting them as children and Europeans to picking an apple off its tree: The remains will produce more stop by and talk about how the whole village would turn out next season. But first, the substrates need to be inoculated. to look for mushrooms in the spring.

“What I’ll do is take a piece of the stem, dip it in a bleach or “I had a woman in Elkin, at the market there, who bought hydrogen peroxide solution, break it open, take some of it out [pink oyster mushrooms] just to put in her cabinet of curiosiwith forceps and stick it into the plated agar which has sugars, ties room,” Ernie continues. “She hates mushrooms but found starches and all kinds of carbohydrates in it,” Cathy says. “The them fascinating. I’ve known people to buy them just for a mycelium will just grow.” centerpiece for a fancy meal.”

They add tiny pieces of that The Wheelers provide a brief colonized agar from the petri dish list of recipe ideas and descriptive Learn more at borrowedlandfarm.com. to grain bags, the mycelium coloflavor profiles for pearl oyster, nies expand, and small amounts pioppino, lion’s mane and king of that are then added to the final trumpet mushrooms on their site, substrate grow bags. including Hungarian mushroom soup and alternative po’boys, “We colonize them in square shapes because it’s easier and love educating customers at markets. The first thing to to stack,” Ernie says. When we sell the kits — we call them know: You have to cook mushrooms to benefit nutrients. Their shroom cubes — they’re cute and look intentional.” cell walls are made of chitin, the same material found in our From there, mushrooms fruits speedily blossom in chorus, fingernails, and which humans cannot digest. and are typically ready to harvest within a week.

Beyond relaying the facts and delicious experimental reciThe Wheelers say their academic training in sciences helped pes, the Wheelers hope for one thing: to empower others to them build the business, but mostly they did it through confeel as close to the earth as they do when they munch on their fidence in their ability to run experiments and problem-solve myriads of natural curiosities. along the way. They say it’s not rocket science, and one of

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CULTURE Guilford Green’s LGBTQ community center opens

by Sayaka Matsuoka

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y the time 1:30 p.m. rolled center’s board. around, half of the rainbow cake In addition to its programs, the new facilhad been eaten. The platter of ity has a meeting area that’s big enough for 30 cookies studded with rainbow people to gather. It also has a wall of resources M&Ms, however, remained intact. with pamphlets for LGBTQ-friendly churches, Around the corner, a community library health services, support groups, Alcoholics comprised of books and movies — Out Anonymous meeting times and more. Among and Running, Milk — filled the shelves. them is Prismatic Speech, a speech-therapy busiOn a couch, multicolor pillows invited ness run by Kevin Dorman, who is transgender. visitors to sit and make themselves Dorman, who made their rounds at the opencomfortable. ing handing out business cards, is a licensed It was finally here. speech-language pathologist, or someone who Dozens gathered to celebrate the works with clients on issues surrounding speech, opening of the long-awaited LGBT language, swallowing, and voice issues. They center in Greensboro on the afternoon host free monthly vocal training sessions at the of July 27. The center, which spans about center for transgender individuals.

1,300 square feet, is a part of the Guil“I help people who are just starting to explore ford Green Foundation and is housed their voice,” said Dorman, who discovered they inside the GGF office, tucked away on were transgender six years ago while studying at the second floor of a building off West UNCG. They say their love of language combined Bessemer Avenue. with their own experiences as a transgender “This is a true community center,” said person propelled them to help others in the Jennifer Ruppe, who is both the center community. and GGF’s executive director. “We’re “I wish I had something like this when I was a good first place to call if you need growing up,” Dorman said. “Figuring out who I “This is a true community center,” said Jennifer Ruppe, anything.” am would have been easier.” who is both the center and GGF’s executive director.

Ruppe, who is a lesbian, is the only Glenda Wilkinson, who found out about the full-time staff member at the new facilopening through her church, is straight but a ity and hopes that the center grows as mother to two lesbian women. She said that growing up in the more and more people learn about its ’70s, the only mention of those who identified as LGBTQ were existence. slurs.

“We want to “There were never resources available,” make sure we Wilkinson said. “I had friends who were gay build programs but no one talked about it.”

Greensboro LGBTQ Center, that are inclusive She’s already signed up as a volunteer.

1205 W. Bessemer Ave., guilof everyone on The progression of the afternoon fordgreenfoundation.org the spectrum,” brought with it new tides of visitors both she said. old and young. A political candidate even After hosting made an appearance. focus groups, Larry L. Archie, who is running for district the center decided to hone in on three court judge in Guilford County, wore a skimmer hat and bowpopulations within the LGBTQ+ commutie to the opening. He noted the importance of a center like nity for its programs: those 55 and up, this to keep marginalized individuals from becoming potential which Ruppe calls the “Gay and Gray” delinquents. group; youth, comprising anyone 12-19 “There’s a stigma associated with LGBTQ and we need years of age; and those who identify as programs for people to not act out,” Archie said. “We need transgender. resources for children who are experiencing difficulties with “Greensboro didn’t have a center,” figuring out who they want to be.”

Ruppe said, “so we had to figure out While a correlation between crime and sexual orientation what the community wanted and or gender identity hasn’t been found, LGBTQ status does corneeded.” relate with higher rates of homelessness, bullying in schools As the third-largest city in the state and being victimized by harassment. by population, many felt that a commuDavis Jr., who grew up in Greensboro as a gay man, notes nity resource like this should have been the importance of having a safe space specifically for the available years ago. Other cities like LGBTQ community.

Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, “The center gives people the support they need, and knowand even neighboring Winston-Salem, ing that it’s here sends a signal,” Davis Jr. said. “It makes all have centers of their own.

Greensboro a better place to live.”

“It’s not just important for the LGBTQ community, it’s better for Greensboro,” said Bert Davis Jr., a member of the

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49 Metallic mix 50 Close 52 Singer-songwriter Rita with the middle name SahatÁiu 53 Grocery sign phrase that’s grammatically questionable 55 Steve of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” 56 Elan 57 ___ bag 58 Go around 59 New Orleans-to-Miami dir.

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5 Ulnae’s neighbors 21 Purchases designed to last a long time 6 “It’s ___ to the finish” 23 Null’s companion 7 Take advantage of room, or demonstrate what 25 Math proof ending four themed Down answers do?

26 Sawyer’s friend 8 Beau and Jeff, to Lloyd Bridges 27 “Decorates” a house on Halloween, perhaps 9 Number in a Roman pickup?

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19 It looks like 2 in binary 20 Tootsie Roll Pop biter, in a classic ad 21 Chops into cubes 22 Word after blessed or catered 24 “Hush!”

26 Ornate 27 Bengal beast 28 Upper limit 30 Milan-based fashion label 31 Got a hold of, maybe 32 1960s campus protest gp. restarted in 2006 33 Sounding like a complete ass?

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