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Meals, wheels and a couple retirees They call it that most recipients of these hot meals Community — today a bit of roasted pork and gravy Champions Week with potatoes and vegetables provided, or some such as always, by Golden Corral — wait close thing — a cattle to the door for these daily deliveries. And call for media that volunteer distributors like Ross and types to harvest CP feel protective about their clients, some low-hanging sharing their troubles and travails as they

by Brian Clarey fruit by riding go from house to house. When a name around with a Meals on Wheels crew gets taken off the route, they don’t exfor a couple hours. But I hold an abiding plore it too deeply, just shake their heads respect for James Joyce — the man who sadly. administers the program through Senior There’s no psychological backstory to Resources of Guilford County and not the their volunteering, no feelings of pennoted author, with whom I have some key ance of there-but-for-the-grace-of-god disagreements about word count — and justifications. CP says that he got started the utility of the four years ago enterprise. because the pastor Volunteer for Senior Resources And even I am at his church, Holy of Guilford County at not immune to Trinity, said there the siren call of an was a need for senior-resources-guilford.org easy, compelling monthly voluncolumn. teers, and that was And so it was enough for CP. that I found myself in the back of an He recruited Ross about a year ago, and SUV with CP Eldred and Ross Dunn, two now they chatter away like they’re on the retired textile executives who happily went golf course or sitting on the front porch of about their monthly rounds in Glenwood, a grocery store as they run their route. serving trays of hot food to elderly shutI mention that there are still 200 people ins, one disadvantaged group of Amerion the waiting list for this particular Meals cans whose designation has yet to receive on Wheels program. They exchange a a politically correct upgrade. Housebound troubled glance. That shouldn’t be. seniors? The culinarily insecure?

Their route takes about 90 minutes.

CP drives. Ross runs the food to the And like all true champions, CP and Ross door. It’s like this every time. act like it’s no big deal.

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CITY LIFE March, 22 - 28

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THURSDAY

Andrew Frank and Krish Mohan @ the Idiot Box Comedy Club, (GSO), 8 p.m.

The Drama Center of City Arts presents a series of original works by Local Playwrights’ Forum members at the Stephen D. Hyers Theatre. Find the event on Facebook.

Andrew Frank and Krish Mohan bring the Anti-Imperialism Nationwide Comedy Takeover, their cerebral, socially conscious comedy tour, to the Idiot Box stage, tackling issues like race, class, religion, war and immigration. Find the event on Facebook.

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The Girl in the Show: screening, book signing and Q&A @ Aperture Cinema (W-S), 7 p.m.

Evening of Short Plays #36 @ Greensboro Cultural Center, 8 p.m.

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Tal National and Bolmongani @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Join local filmmaker Anna Fields for a screening of her documentary that explores the co-evolution of the feminist movement and comedy featuring interviews with comediennes, stand-up comics, writers and producers. Learn more at aperturecinema.com.

Branford Marsalis @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Niger’s Tal National fills the Ramkat with energetic rhythms rooted in East African percussion and “Griot Guitar” riffs with Winston-Salem’s psychedelic pop and rock group Bolmongani. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY

Egg hunt @ Glenwood Recreation Center (GSO), 10 a.m.

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Grammy-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis performs alongside his internationally recognized jazz quartet. The National Endowment for the Arts cites Marsalis as a Jazz Master. Learn more at events.wfu.edu.

Harlem Globetrotters @ Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (W-S), 7 p.m.

The world-renowned Globetrotters bring their 2018 Amazing Feats of Basketball World Tour to the Triad, taking on the revamped Washington Generals team. After the game, Globetrotter stars will sign autographs and take photos with fans. The team continues their tour at the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday at 3 p.m.

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Face-painting, bounce houses, games, concessions and the ECO Bus complement age-appropriate “Candy Land” themed egg hunts. Find the event on Facebook for parking and shuttle information.

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Starbenders, Totally Slow, the Kneads and Night Battles @ OPOTW Studios DIY Space (GSO), 8 p.m.

High Point Food Truck Rodeo @ Mendenhall Transportation Terminal (HP), noon

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Ardmore Compassion Fair @ Ardmore United Methodist Church (W-S), 11 a.m.

Learn about nonprofits contributing to community wellbeing including the Forsyth Prison Ministries, HOPE Winston-Salem, the Institute for Dismantling Racism, the Piedmont Environmental Alliance and the Boy and Girl Scouts. Delicious by Shereen provides refreshments. Learn more at ardmoreumc.org.

Chatham Social Project @ LoLo (W-S), 11 a.m.

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More than 15 food trucks including Dusty Donuts, the Heights Dominican Kitchen, Fuzzy’s Empanadas, Taqueria el Azteca & Taco Truck and Açai Monster Truck Find the event on Facebook for the full list.

Wayne Shorter tribute concert @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7 p.m.

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SUNDAY

Pinar Yoldas and Anthony Atala @ SECCA (W-S), 2 p.m.

The Piedmont Triad Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer Wayne Shorter.

Find the event on Facebook.

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Hear the glam and garage punk sounds of Starbenders and post-punk from Night Battles alongside Greensboro-based indie and punk bands Totally Slow and the Kneads. Find the event on Facebook.

Talib Kweli @ the Blind Tiger (GSO), 8 p.m.

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Join Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and 12X12 exhibition artist Pinar Yoldas for a moderated discussion centered on the interplay between the arts and sciences in the McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium. A reception will follow. Learn more at secca.org.

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Carpe Diem presents the first Chatham Social Project at LoLo’s. Enjoy food and drinks while exploring original salvage art. Vendors include Goatfeathers, Junkies, Darrel Dean Antiques and Reclamation Illumination. Find the event on Facebook.

Greensboro dubstep rapper Ed E. Ruger opens for the politically insightful, Brooklyn-based rapper. Learn more at theblindtiger.com.

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7by Jordan criminally overlooked women artists Green 1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar playing established the architecture for rock and roll. A gospel singer and guitar player who achieved mass appeal, Tharpe’s guitar style is singularly cathartic, creating an effervescent outflowing of feeling that contrasts with the heavy backbeat of the blues. Whether paired with a gospel choir or a brass band, Tharpe took center stage, dispatching cascading fireworks from her white Gibson electric. She was a genuine star: Tharpe’s 1951 wedding at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC attracted 25,000 paying guests.

Given that Elvis Presley cited Tharpe as an influence, it’s no small irony that the 1950s marked the low ebb of Tharpe’s career; slender, young, white men working from Tharpe’s template proved to be more marketable than a black woman in her forties.

2. Big Mama Thornton Like Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton had the whole package: She sang, played killer harmonica and wrote her own material. Compare that to Elvis, whose talents were singing and selecting material by other artists to cover. Thornton, a blues shouter from Houston, was the first to record “Hound Dog,” the song penned by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller that Elvis covered in 1956. It was Janis Joplin’s cover of Thornton’s “Ball and Chain” in 1968 that reignited Thornton’s career. She was a big woman with a big voice who defied gender stereotypes of women as demure objects of male desire. Check out the YouTube video of Thornton wading through an audience of young hippies in Eugene, Ore. in 1971 and taking the stage as undisputed royalty.

As with her music, Thornton defied gender expectations with her dress, from porkpie hats and plaid shirts in the mid-1960s to her final appearance in Los Angeles in 1984 wearing a suit and tie and cowboy hat while puffing on a cigar.

3. Ruth Brown Elvis’ recording of “That’s Alright Mama” in 1954 is cited as the first chapter of rock and roll, although some argue that “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, released by Sun Records in 1951, is the first recorded rock song. While Sun Records was working out its alchemy in Memphis, Ruth Brown, from Portsmouth, Va., was cranking out an unending stream of harddriving R&B songs with attitude to spare and ribald, sexually risqué lyrics starting in 1950. Brown’s growling vocals and her band’s combustible arrangements were rock and roll by another name: Brown was the acknowledge queen of R&B in the ’50s.

4. Janis Martin One of Brown’s biggest fans was Janis Martin, a fellow Virginian who signed to the RCA Victor label in 1956 and was marketed as the “female Elvis.” The one time the two women met shortly before both of them died, they performed Brown’s 1953 hit “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” together. “I had an idol,” Martin told the audience.

“When I was 13-years-old I heard Ruth Brown sing. It just opened my eyes to what could happen out there.

We were doing an all-country show with nothing on there but a snare drum and one little cymbal. I was doing black rhythm and blues. And they loved it. But hell, if they hadn’t I’d-a done it anyway.”

5. Wanda Jackson Janis Martin and Wanda Jackson were among the few women rockabilly artists who emerged in the ’50s. Jackson, who briefly dated Elvis, encountered some of the same difficulties as Martin. While white men like Elvis and a few black cohorts like Chuck Berry and Little Richard caused a stir, white America simply wasn’t ready for an assertive woman who shimmied onstage and displayed a feisty vocal style.

But Jackson wasn’t a novelty act.

Watching her fiery1958 performance of “Hard Headed Woman” on Town Hall Party backed by a standard country band is to behold a performer at the peak of confidence and command. And her catalogue is as deep and varied as any of her male contemporaries. “Funnel of Love,” recorded in 1961, sounds like a surreal and heartbroken surf dream. After straddling rock and country, Jackson largely retreated to the country genre in the 1960s. Jackson and Martin both saw their stature as rockabilly pioneers restored thanks to guest appearances on Rosie Flores’ 1995 album Rockabilly Filly. At the age of 80, Jackson is still going strong: As recently as 2017, she can be seen on YouTube giving ferocious renditions of her classic songs with a backing band half her age.

6. Barbara Lynn Hailing from Beaumont, Texas, Barbara Lynn earned a No. 1 hit on the R&B charts with her own song, “You’ll Lose a Good Thing,” in 1962 at the age of 20. It’s a shame that she isn’t recognized not only as a first-rate R&B singer, but also as a wonderful guitar player and gifted songwriter. The diminution of Lynn’s legacy can only be considered a function of aggregate racism by the music industry and journalists: Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton are considered artists, while Lynn is relegated to the role of singer and associated with one song. But she also wrote “Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Going),” which was covered by the Rolling Stones in 1964. Watch the YouTube video of Lynn’s 1966 perfor-

7. Rosie Flores

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mance of “It’s Better to Have It” on “The !!!! Beat,” and you’ll see the model for what Janis Joplin, born in neighboring Port Arthur, would attempt four years later with the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Lynn recorded “You Left the Water Running” before Otis Redding. She’s continued to write great songs, like “Don’t Hit Me No More,” released on her 2000 Hot Night Tonight album and to perform. Now 76 years old, she’s still got it.

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As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Meeting Website: http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings Anyone desiring additional information may contact Ahmad AlSharawneh, NCDOT, Project Manager, at 1582 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699, by telephone at (919) 707-6010 or by email at aalsharawneh@ncdot.gov. Comments should be submitted by April 26, 2018.

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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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 Tamara Makhlouf via email at tmakhlouf@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 7076072 as early as possible, so that these arrangements can be made.

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Rosie Flores was responsible for reviving the careers of rockabilly pioneers Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin in 1995. As a testament to how little has changed in the music business, Flores has largely suffered the same fate as Jackson, struggling in obscurity while being fully accepted in neither rock nor country. She’s been playing guitar since she started a band in her parents’ garage in southern California at the age of 16 in 1966, which makes her roughly a contemporary of the late Tom Petty. Flores’ yelping vocal style and super-charged guitar picking makes her one of the true latter-day rockabilly torch-bearers. While working the current rockabilly circuit with peers like Marti Brom, the Reverend Horton Heat and Dale Watson, Flores’ music also veers into Beatlesque melodies and honky-tonk. While Flores deserves acclaim as a rockabilly artist, it’s tragic that she also got shut out of the country music industry.

Watch her crisp and emotive performance with the Ronnie Mack Band at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood in 1989, and it’s easy to imagine that Flores was on the cusp of breaking into the country mainstream as part of the neotraditional wave that lifted up artists like Dwight Yoakam and Patty Loveless. But she perseveres with spunk and good humor, and at the age of 67, maybe she’s on the verge of being discovered. A 2015 interview with the Blot Magazine is telling. “So Rosie, is this your first time playing South by Southwest?” the interviewer asks. “I’ve been playing South by Southwest just about every year since it started,” Flores replies. “I think I missed two. The first one I did was in 1988.”

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The meeting will be held on Monday, March 26 at the Bryan Park Golf and Conference Center located at 6275 Bryan Park Road in Greensboro from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding the project. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project progresses.

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present the selected alternative for the proposed interchange improvements at U.S. 29 and Reedy Fork Parkway (S.R. 4771), in Guilford County.

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NEWS

Winston-Salem yanks marketing contract over diversity concerns

by Jordan Green The city of Winston-Salem will handle marketing of the Dixie Classic Fair in-house, heeding concerns by council members about a private firm’s lack of racial diversity.

Concerns about racial diversity and sensitivity by some members of WinstonSalem led to official action on Monday to yank a marketing contract for the annual Dixie Classic Fair from a local firm on Monday.

The finance committee voted 3 to 1 to reject all bids for marketing the fair, including the winning bid from Wildfire, and assign the work to the city’s marketing and communications department instead.

Concerns about Wildfire’s proposal to handle marketing for the fair at a cost of up to $230,000 initially snagged on a concern raised by Councilman Derwin Montgomery that the firm’s lack of racial diversity could result in a communications misstep. Montgomery cited the backlash against a recent Dodge Ram commercial that ran during the 2018 Super Bowl featuring oratory by Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of the kind of marketing stumble that can be avoided with the cultural sensitivity that comes with having a diverse staff.

City Manager Lee Garrity echoed Montgomery’s concern during a city council meeting last month, noting that Wildfire met all the goals under the city’s minority women business enterprise program, “but all of the subcontractors here are women and there aren’t any

minority subcontractors involved in the proposal. And probably 30-40 percent of the people who attend the fair are either African-American or Hispanic.”

By the time the contract came up for a vote by city council on Feb. 20, Montgomery had another concern. The councilman said Wildfire identified the Winston-Salem Chronicle “as one of the individual contractors that they would be doing ad placement for” in its application. The Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that targets the African-American community in Winston-Salem that is published by Councilman James Taylor.

Montgomery, who co-owns the Chronicle with Taylor, said during the Feb. 20 meeting that the newspaper would not accept any payment from Wildfire for ad placement to market the fair if the firm received the contract.

“The purpose of my statement is to make it clear that the Winston-Salem Chronicle has no financial interest in this contract,” he said. Montgomery added that he was concerned that Wildfire’s reference to the Chronicle as a recipient of advertising spending might be “a methodology that is used to silence a voice from being able to engage on an item” before council.

Taylor blasted Wildfire for its handling of the contract bid.

“I do not like the way in which this matter was handled,” he said. “To simply just list the Chronicle and then silence two voices, it was completely inhumane and uncivilized. And I don’t know that

City Manager Lee Garrity estimated that 30 to 40 percent of the people who attend the Dixie Classic Fair are black or Latino.

we should continue to tolerate that sort of thing.”

City council voted 5-4 on Feb. 20 to remand the contract back to the finance committee.

The committee vote on Monday to pull the marketing contract back in house fell along party lines, with Democrats DD Adams, Vivian Burke and Jeff MacIntosh in favor and Republican Robert Clark opposed.

“Twice, this company has legitimately, honestly, above board played-by-thebooks-rules won this contract, and I will not vote for anything but awarding that to them,” Clark said. “If you want to do something different, change the rules before the game starts.”

The proposal submitted by the city’s marketing and communication department budgets $209,791 for marketing the fair, compared to the $230,000 budget proposed by Wildfire. The two proposals include roughly the same amount for advertising buys — about $140,000. The city proposes spending only $3,100 on social media, compared to $26,450 by Wildfire, and also undercuts the private firm’s proposed spending on strategy and creative development, public relations and production. The one area where the city proposes spending more money than the private competitor is a $28,000-line item for a “media

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placement commission.”

City asked to forgive loan to allow short sale of daycare In other business on Monday, the finance committee heard a request to forgive a $108,300 loan to the Northwest Childcare Development Centers for the Mudpies East daycare on East Seventh Street adjacent to the Innovation Quarter. Forgiveness of the loan would allow a short sale of the daycare to a local investment group managed by Matthew Marceron of Clemmons and Howard J. Kaplan of Lewisville. Marceron said the investors build and lease Head Start facilities, and that they plan to lease the East Seventh Street location to Foundations Early Learning Center, which operates daycares as Sunshine House.

Under the current terms of the city loan, the owner is required to use the property for a non-profit daycare for 25 years. The prospective buyers are requesting that the city lift that restriction after 10 years. As a guarantee of good faith, the new owners would pay the city $55,000 if they closed the daycare before the 10-year period elapses. City staff is also recommending that the new owners agree to retain at least 50 percent of current employees for five years and ensure that at least 33 percent of families served are low- to moderate-income for at least

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And the daycare center stays there. I understand that this could go away in 10 years. If this thing doesn’t work for them, they may have to bulldoze it down and put apartments there. I think we have an operator who wants to work with us, but we have very little leverage here.”

The item was on the agenda for information purposes only and the committee took no action.

Tony L. Burton III, the CEO of Northwest Child Development Centers, is a candidate for Forsyth County Commission in District A. Northwest Child Development Centers sold its other Winston-Salem daycare, located on Poplar Street, to Foundations Early Learning Center in 2016. With the potential sale of the East Seventh Street facility, the nonprofit would be left with only two facilities — one in King and one in Mocksville. Burton’s salary was $96,898, according to the nonprofit’s 990 report on file with the IRS for 2015.

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10 years.

Council members Adams and Montgomery proposed forgiving the $108,300 debt incrementally to enforce an agreement to preserve daycare slots for low- to moderate-income families. Adams said the reason she voted for the series of loans to Northwest Child Development Centers from 2011 through 2014 was to ensure that affordable childcare was available African-American and Latino families along the Patterson Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive corridors, and she’s concerned that they could be displaced due to a housing boom around the Innovation Quarter.

Councilman Clark warned that the city’s investment in the daycare is subordinate to $2.6 million in loans from other creditors that would have to be satisfied before the city was repaid.

“The guy holding all the money is BB&T,” he said. “They could foreclose on this loan tomorrow. We would lose 100 percent of what we have…. There’s $2.6 million debt in front of us, and I think the best thing we can do is find someone who’s committed to working with a daycare center. We’re writing off $108,000 versus we have roughly $400,000+ that we could write off.

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Greensboro council approves $20M for Publix distribution center

by Jordan Green Greensboro City Council approves up to $20 million in incentives to bring a Publix distribution center to the east side of the city as council selects a new chief executive to replace City Manager Jim Westmoreland.

David Parrish is receiving a promotion from assistant city manager to interim city manager, replacing his boss, City Manager Jim Westmoreland, who is retiring at the end of the month.

Greensboro City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday evening to appoint Parrish to the city’s top executive position effective April 1.

Parrish received his master’s in public administration from UNCG in 2005.

Prior to being hired by the city of Greensboro in 2012, Parrish served as a management analyst for the city of Danville, Va., town manager of Yanceyville and then deputy city manager in Danville. As assistant city manager in Greensboro, Parrish oversaw the field operations, engineering and inspections, planning, Guilford Metro 911, water resources, transportation and fire departments. Parrish will receive a salary of $171,538 with a monthly allowance of $1,000.

Westmoreland, who announced his retirement on March 2, returned to the city after a three-year hiatus to serve as deputy city manager in October 2012.

After City Manager Denise Turner Roth accepted an appointment from President Obama to serve as administrator of the US General Services Administration, Westmoreland was hired as city manager in Greensboro. After beginning his career with the engineering firm KimleyHorn & Associates in 1988, Westmoreland joined the NC Transportation Department, serving as an urban traffic engineer and state signing engineer. In 1996, Westmoreland left state government to work for the city of Greensboro, working his way up from engineering and planning manager in the transportation department to assistant city manager of economic development services.

In 2009, he shuttled back to the NC Transportation Department to serve as deputy secretary for transit.

The final stretch of Westmoreland’s tenure with the city has been shadowed by questions about the veracity of his statements about the supposed need for public parking decks supporting two hotel projects in downtown Greensboro.

The day Westmoreland announced his retirement, the News & Record reported

that the city was unable to produce an internal review cited in an affidavit in which the city manager wrote that the Greensboro Department of Transportation “conducted an internal review of the previous [2010] parking study and concluded that the findings, recommendations and future parking deficit needs identified in the past study remained accurate.”

Westmoreland said in an email to council members the following day that he read the article with “some disappointment,” noting that “it questions both the honesty and integrity of statements I made in my official affidavit” involving a lawsuit filed against the city by the owners of the Cone Denim Entertainment Center. Westmoreland wrote, “This was strictly an internal review of the past 2010 study by GDOT. This means they simply reviewed the past study, determined that no conditions had changed since the past study COURTESY PHOTO Unlike Winston-Salem and High Point, Greensboro doesn’t have a Publix grocery store, but stands to gain a distribution center. was performed in 2010 (i.e. the city had not added any new parking decks 1,000 new jobs paying an average salary “That would be a remarkable thing for or off-street parking lots since 2010, no of $42,000. our employees here in Greensboro and major employers or businesses had left The resolution approved by city Guilford County. And I can’t rememdowntown since 2010, but based on the council calls for annual payments to ber the last time we had a $400 million parking requests of downtown businesses the company based on an agreement to investment. Imagine what that will do and the new hotel project, off-street create 500 new jobs by Dec. 31, 2023, for us. Not only when Publix makes that parking demands were increasing), so 222 jobs the following year and 278 jobs kind of investment in a community, it the needs and parking deficits identified the year after that. The city would pay makes other employers look around in the 2010 parking deck location study the company from $14.6 million to $17.7 and think: Well, if Publix is interested in remained in 2015. In admillion based on property Greensboro and Guilford County, well maybe we dition, this internal review taxes generated by the should be interested as well.” was not a new study project, equivalent to 80 Vaughan emphasized that the incenby GDOT and did not percent of added revenue tives approved by city council are perforproduce any new or adA UNCG graduate, from property taxes. The mance based. ditional work products.”

David Parrish has proposed site for the “And in this particular case, once During the meeting on distribution center is curPhase I is done, that’s when these incenTuesday, Councilwoman worked for the city rently located outside the tives kick in,” she said. “That means Nancy Hoffmann exsince 2012. city, and payment of the that Publix will have actually had to pressed satisfaction in the incentives is contingent on have built their building and hired their cultivation of leadership a future city council apfirst 500 people and have started paying talent in the city manproving annexation of the those people before they get their first ager’s office. property in 2022.

The city incentives check. I think a lot of people “I think two of the best things that also agrees to reimburse the company $3 think we offer an incentive, we pass it Denise Turner Roth did for us during million for water and sewer lines. The and then sometime in the first couple her period as city manager was to recruit resolution states that if the city fails to months we start writing checks. And both Jim and David to Greensboro,” she invest $400 million or create 1,000 jobs, that really doesn’t happen. These checks said. the city may “claw back” the incentive won’t be written for years. Publix has to As expected, the city council also grant by withholding annual payments. agree to come and they are the first ones voted unanimously to approve a $20 milThe resolution also requires the comwho make an investment in our comlion incentive package to bring a Publix pany to pay back any money the city munity.”

Super Markets regional distribution censpends on water and sewer lines if it fails ter to a location off Burlington Road on to select Greensboro for the new facility the east side of Greensboro. In exchange or fails to complete the project. for the assistance, the Florida-based “A thousand jobs really doesn’t come grocer would invest up to $400 million along too often at an average wage of in a 1.8 million square foot refrigerated $42,000,” Mayor Nancy Vaughan said. and dry goods warehouse, and create

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed grade separation at the Hilltop Road (S.R. 1424) rail crossing (722361Y) of the Norfolk Southern “Main” Line, in Guilford County. The purpose of this project is to improve operations and safety at the crossing.

Anyone desiring additional information may contact Gregory Blakeney, NCDOT, Senior Rail Project Development Engineer, at 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699, by telephone at (919) 707-4717 or by email at gmblakeney@ncdot.gov. Comments should be submitted by April 30, 2018.

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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 Tamara Makhlouf via email at tmakhlouf@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707-6072 as early as possible, so that these arrangements can be made.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON MARCH 27 REGARDING THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF FORUM PARKWAY (S.R. 3955) TO N.C. 66 (UNIVERSITY PARKWAY) IN FORSYTH COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-5899

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The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes construction of new twolane roadway on new location from Forum Parkway (S.R. 3955) to N.C. 66 (University Parkway) in Rural Hall.

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A public meeting will be held at Woodland Baptist Church located at 1175 Bethania-Rural Hall Road on Tuesday, March 27th from 4 to 6 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather public input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will also be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by April 17, 2018.

For additional information, please contact Mr. Al Blanton, PE, PLS, Division 9 Project Development Team Lead by phone: (336) 747-7800 or via email at wablanton@ncdot.gov; or by mail: NCDOT Division 9, 375 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem, NC 27127.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. 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.

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The youth will vote against the NRA Amid the rising coverage of the Maryland school shooting and the bombings in Austin, Texas, Triad residents could be forgiven for missing media reports that Greensboro College in downtown Greensboro, and Weaver High School right next door, both went into lockdown after a “physical assault” on campus for an hour or so on Tuesday afternoon.

Likely, the kids took it in stride — this is the schoolshooting generation after all; surely all of them by now, even the dumb ones, have thought about what they would do if something went down at their school: how they might escape, where they might hide, which of their fellow students might be capable of such an act.

These days, it’s just another fire drill.

The gun nuts and false patriots And so the NRA and of the National Rifle Associaits borg-like minions tion — were they even to address must fight back, this most recent because they have spate of school terror — might call realized that most the Greensboro current high school incident a victory, as no firearms seniors are eligible were involved. to vote this year.

As it was, the NRA was quick to pounce on the Maryland shooting as vindication of their heavily armed worldview: A school resource officer — a good guy with a gun! — nullified the threat after just two students had been shot. Slam dunk!

But the kids don’t believe it.

Look at the faces of the kids from Stoneman Douglas High when they fend off the vile accusations from the stupidest and meanest of adults, or the kids in Pennsylvania who sat out their detention — incurred after National Walkout Day — with arms defiantly linked on the gymnasium floor, or any of these young survivors, for they are all survivors, who have collectively come to the realization that the grownups are unable to do anything about the NRA and its influence.

And so the NRA and its borg-like minions must fight back, because the smarter ones among them have realized that most current high school seniors are eligible to vote this year, and more are coming down the pipeline. There are 41 million Americans between 14- and 19-years-old. By and large, they don’t share the gun fetish so many Americans succumb to.

Perhaps that’s why the NRA views them as expendable.

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The news emanating from Washington broadcast on national television, allowing public debate on their and other global power centers these content. days is fantastic beyond anything fiction The ability of a populist demagogue like Trump to manipulate could invent — high-stakes showdowns, voters through micro-targeted fear messaging is symptomatic brinkmanship and folly, tectonic political of a deterioration in liberal democracy that has been underway shifts. Try to appreciate for a moment the for some time now. Yascha Mounk argues in his new book, The gravity of President Trump tweeting trial People versus Democracy, that three factors undergirding liberal balloons about firing Special Prosecudemocracy have come under increasing strain: a shared consensus

by Jordan Green tor Robert Mueller as the investigation based on the gatekeeping role of a relatively small number of closes in, and understand that the craven Republican leadership newspapers and broadcast networks, broadly-shared economic in Congress will bow to the dictates of scorched-earth partigrowth and relative economic equality, and social homogeneity. sanship and enable Trump to emerge unscathed. If you’re not Those who care about preserving liberal democracy — or just too shellshocked, try to process that a Cambridge University defending marginalized communities against white nationalism researcher who accepted Russian government grants obtained and other strains of bigotry — need to figure out quickly what to access to the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million American do about the rise of authoritarianism. users, which were then turned over to a British firm that harvested Deteriorating faith in the ability of government to protect the data to create psychographic profiles for political campaign Americans’ freedoms is reflected in a Monmouth University Poll targeting. Understand that Robert Mercer, the US hedge-fund released on Monday that found that 74 percent of Americans billionaire conservative political donor, financed the research to across all races and partisan affiliations believe that “a group of the tune of $15 million, and deployed the micro-targeting tool first unelected government and military officials” — a Deep State — for Ted Cruz during the Republican primary and then for Trump “secretly manipulate or direct national policy.” in the 2016 general election. Try to wrap your head around the There are few issues where Americans are more irreconcilably fact that the ascendance of Trump’s white nationalist politics was divided than gun control, and if the movement gains political turbocharged by international Big Data with ties to the Russian traction then democratic governance is likely to be sorely tested. government and unwitting collusion Notably, the Monmouth University from liberal Silicon Valley’s digital poll found that NRA members are Try to wrap your head around the fact that the aspanopticon — that is, Facebook. almost twice as likely to believe cendance of Trump’s white nationalist politics was Any thinking person must be in the existence of a Deep State experiencing vertigo by now. Trump is turbocharged by international Big Data with ties to operation in Washington DC as the a clown, and a tool of the plutocracy. general population. the Russian government and unwitting collusion The priorities of major donors like We don’t live in the same realfrom liberal Silicon Valley’s digital panopticon — Mercer, the Koch brothers and Art ity anymore. The right-wing trolls that is, Facebook.

Pope, who developed the financial accusing the Parkland students of infrastructure of the modern GOP, being “crisis actors” perpetrating might be an extreme libertarian a hoax are only the most extreme vision of slashing social services, eliminating regulations and example of the inversion of reality that frustrates prospects for reducing taxes for the wealthy, but clearly they have to genuflect constructively addressing the crisis. before Trump. It was only because Trump was wildly popular with One example is an essay recently posted on the website of the Republican primary voters that Mercer was forced to swing his far-right Oath Keepers militia by Second Amendment extremist resources from Cruz, his initial favorite. In a way, Trump is the David Codrea. inevitable consequence of the Republican Party’s abandonment Assailing the upcoming March for Our Lives, Codrea went afof the social contract: Pull out the supports that provide stability ter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg, for middle-class Americans, and it’s no surprise that party’s older attempting to portray him as a tool of a totalitarian conspiracy as and overwhelmingly white base turns to resentment over race, opposed to a survivor of gun violence speaking from authentic, religion, immigration and guns to make sense of their feelings of lived experience. dislocation.

“To minimize the role of the totalitarian lobby’s newest citizen Of course, we don’t know exactly how the Trump campaign disarmament rock star to that of ‘survivor’ is to mask the wellused the psychometrics created from fraudulently harvested organized, well-funded and well-connected interests bankrolling Facebook profiles to craft micro-targeted appeals to voters. the March for Our Lives,” Codrea wrote.

That’s the sinister beauty of micro-targeting: Only the recipient or Incredibly, for Codrea and other far-right gun absolutists, the people who share ideological assumptions and character traits are blood is on the hands of Hogg and former Attorney General Eric likely to see the message, making it difficult if not impossible to Holder — another bogeyman of the far right — not the NRA. expose or challenge misinformation. Cynical election messaging “They want — they need — vulnerable school children,” Codrea that exploits deep-seated fear to drive up negatives on an oppowrote. “They want our guns. And they want men with guns in the nent is nothing new. The Willie Horton ad by the 1988 campaign employ of the powers behind them to execute their demands, of the first President Bush and Sen. Jesse Helms’ “White Hands” even if it means more bloodbaths.” ad in 1992 are examples of Republican candidates successfully We’re still operating under the assumption that we can have a exploiting fears about “black” crime or black challenges to white reasoned debate and pull the extremists back to the center. But economic dominance. The difference is that then the ads were where is the center? Would we even recognize it if we saw it?

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his is not your usual on-campus dining spot.

Ling Zhuo and Ken Huang opened the doors of their Mexican/Asian fusion restaurant in mid-September inside a UNCG campus housing development, in hopes that the students would venture away from cafeteria fare and fast food. “[Ken]’s very creative and knows a lot about those foods,” Zhou said. “We wanted to create something special here in Greensboro.”

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Taco Bao is situated within UNCG’s newest student housing complex next to other ground-level restaurants in Spartan Village II. Zhou said that the students who give them a chance overwhelmingly become regulars, visiting several times a week, especially international students who encouraged them to offer more authentic menu items like pork rib soup. Zhou, whose family is from China, said her favorite dish is MaPo tofu with ground pork.

She said she wants people to know the restaurant isn’t just for students, though, and most customers still come from the surrounding community. Taco Bao delivers within a three-mile radius, including all campus dorms.

“I want people to experience us here, too,” Zhou said. “I think it is cute even though it’s small.”

She’s right, and the natural light from tall windows and sprawling succulents elevate Taco Bao’s dining space above and beyond most other Asian take-out spots and campus dining options. Foodie magazines like Bon Appétit adorn shelving above a drink and dessert cooler

This is not Chinese takeout. Taco Bao offers customizable Asian-Mexican dishes on the UNCG campus, with secret menu iterms for international students.

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where clientele find familiar sodas next to canned green tea scallion and carrot, and a choice of protein. The shrimp and and sugar-laden soft drinks like lychee and mango flavored fish are fine, but Huang excels with the bulgogi beef, pork and Calpico that are popular abroad. chicken marinades.

It’s no surprise — Zhou earned her degree in graphic design.

Don’t expect the fried rice to be the same as what you find She and her chef husband met as undergraduates at State in other Chinese takeout restaurants, though. There are small University of New York in Cobleskill, where he earned a degree pieces of sausage, scallion, fried egg and green cabbage but in restaurant management. She it won’t be prepared in heavy later transferred to Rutgers. sauces. A kimchi bowl has curly The perks of a place like Taco noodles, yellow cheese, scalLearn more at tacobaogreensboro.com Bao is the ultra-customizable lion and fried egg. You’ll have to or visit at 1101 W. Gate City Blvd. (GSO) menu. Toppings for tacos, bao check for shifting chef’s specialand rice, salad and noodle bowls ties like beef scallion pancakes range from fried eggs, edamame, and an eel rice bowl. black beans, kimchi and pico de If you want to do it right, gallo. The standout is Huang’s bao, a riff on a Taiwanese dish though, trust UNCG’s international students and ask for the gua bao that traditionally consists of sliced, stewed meat hidden menu of authentic cuisine and finish off with the laven(especially pork belly) and condiments sandwiched between der-colored taro bubble tea, one of Huang’s specialties. flat steamed bread.

And then wonder out loud why you never had a place like “He’s very creative,” Zhou said. “He takes that stuff out and this on campus when you were in school. puts in what he likes with his own seasonings.”

The bao comes served with red cabbage, pickled cucumber,

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CULTURE At the NC Writers Conference, a poet faces her fears

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very so often a poet must leave her isolated desk and come out into the world, a fearful task for some writers. For poet Emilia Phillips, this fear comes to life perhaps more often than she would like. As a new professor for the MFA Writing program at UNCG, Phillips faces her biggest fear nearly every day.

“It’s kind of funny but my biggest fear is reading for students,” Phillips said. “I always get a little nervous like they’re sitting there thinking, Oh, this person’s been teaching me? I get nervous but that sort of slides away after I get going.”

Phillips is the author of three collections of poems. The official release of her third collection of poems, Empty Clip, is April 23, though UNCG is hosting the book release and signing on Thursday. A new resident to Greensboro, Phillips will be teaching the poetry master class at the NC Writers’ Network Spring 2018 conference at UNCG on April 21.

She said she has been made to feel at home in the writing community.

“I’ve been at UNCG since August and pretty new to Greensboro,” Phillips said.

“I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how

many writers are here and how strong the writing community is. The literary community is one of the things I value most in my career in writing and my life in writing. It’s a little intimidating but I’ve definitely been welcomed with open arms.”

Her master class, entitled “A Poem that Sings,” explores the language of poetry in a different way.

“I’m interested in identifying ways in which the poetry we write and encounter are not only musical for music’s sake, but is also productively musical,” Phillips said. “I want include language that renders the action and spaces within the poem to allow the sound to be as much a part of the immersive experience as the information, making it really sing in a different way.”

The NC Writers’ Network brings thousands of writers and bibliophiles together from across the state. Founded in the mid-1980s, a small group of writers and teachers met at the Poetry Center Southeast of Guilford College in Greensboro to discuss starting a statewide literary service organization. The group surveyed writers, teachers, editors, librarians, publishers and lovers of literature who embraced the notion of a statewide organization because many felt isolated from literary opportunities. After their official nonprofit approval in 1985, the NC Writers’ Network has built a lasting community of writers to come together and explore their creative endeavors.

TRACY TANNER Emilia Phillips signs copies of her book of poetry, Empty Clip, on “Conferences are the best access we Thursday at UNCG. have in seeing the literary community at large,” Phillips said “On top of that, meaning.” writing is such a lonely task, and conferences sort of remind Despite a great deal of traveling to conferences for readings us that we’re not so alone. I know for myself that, in the past, and book signings, most recently to the Association of Writers after attending a workshop or conference I tend walk away & Writing Programs in Tampa, Phillips manages to remain with this urge to write. The class stays with me long after.” focused on her work. Since her first chapbook collection of poPhillips’ writing craft has evolved ems was published in 2010, Phillips over the course of her career. From has published three other chapbooks early beginnings of simply getand three full-length collections, ting images and ideas down on the To learn more about Emilia Phillips’ with several poems already piling page, she has developed new habits, master class and register for the NC up for another collection in the near something she hopes to share in her future. For any author, being dubbed Writers’ Network Conference, visit master class. prolific might feel more curse than ncwriters.org “I’m now drafting all of my poems flattery; the fear that they might out loud at first,” Phillips said. “Then never live up to the compliment. In I’ll go back and hand-write them, a recent interview with The Angle, then at some point I’ll type them Phillips seemed to laugh off the moniker, surmising it is simply up. For me it’s a necessary sense of sound that comes through what she must do. because I am composing orally, and as I’m progressing through “I don’t feel prolific in any way,” Phillips told The Angle. “In the poem, I’m repeating it to myself and memorizing it on fact, I often feel like I’m not doing enough, but maybe that’s some level. When I finally get to the page I try use it in a way why I am always writing. It’s never enough. This poem is never to develop tension between lines and syntax and try to create good enough. And any time I take time off, I feel guilty! I jones subtext in the poem. Form is a way to subvert and nuance for writing, and when I can’t, I feel physically ill.”

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isten first — you can always be performance dubbed silent,” Cassandra V. ChopouGAH!: Greensboro rian said, encouraging a room Art Happening! of 15 who would contribute welcomed the solar to a guided ritual of sorts in Greensnew year on Tuesday boro’s Code Gallery. Her prompt came in the back room of on the third evening of the 23rd annual Scuppernong Books.

Lovesphere, a creative-arts performance Graham Holt, a local project devised to usher in the vernal criminal defense equinox, and it elucidated one of the lawyer, read aloud festival’s core values: deep listening. a poem he wrote Local artist and musician Gary Heidt during the March 17 created the festival in New York in 1996 show over the course and the couple brought it to Greensboro of about an hour as when they relocated nearly three years musicians and actors ago. Heidt and Chopourian are members interpreted his words of the Van Reipen Collective, a group in front of a small that curates imaginative interdisciplinaudience. ary works for the stage and site-speHeidt, Bryan cific interactive performances, and the Crotts, Dave Doyle stewards of Monday evening’s event. and Richard Gross The annual festival began in the Glenmaintained a wood Community Bookshop on March folksy, foreboding 17, merging local experimental music, soundtrack with spoken-word poetry and improvisational electric and acoustic performance art. guitars, a French The so-called acoustic Lovesphere horn and a number Orchestra didn’t sit orchestral style; of percussion instruthey generated an omniphonic sound by ments.

LAUREN BARBER Gavin Glass, background, Graham Holder, right, and Anita Woodley bring spoken word setting up in different locations around “There used to and movement to music at Scuppernong Books. the bookstore, some facing each other be a lot a’ weeping self-examinations, encouraging audience members to loosely as a black Sharpie sketch of Karl Marx in the South,” Anita Woodley moaned, embodying a greatfollow along. They did. looked on. Many of the day’s performers grandmother resting weary in a wooden rocker. “Some trees “Then ya need ta lean over in front of the mirror,” she said. are involved with the Perceiver of Sound weeped bodies…. Blood in the leaves, blood at the root….”

“If it looks like there’s a dimple, that means there’s somethin’ League, which hosts a monthly perWoodley, a North Carolina journalist, actress, playwright, pullin’. Dimples belong on your face and below your waist.” formance series featuring avant-garde poet and free-jazz vocalist, has improvised alongside a rotat“There is no time,” Holt read from a seat to her left. “There improvisational music. ing cast of Lovesphere performers in past years. This year, is no present. There is only pressure — pressure to form the They repurposed their instruments Gavin Glass joined her on their high-ceilinged stage, lined with tame cat.” in unconventional used books and cardinal-red brick.

At that, Glass emitted a nearly non-stop low-pitched purr ways like rubbing His movements varied from ecstatic to Learn more at lovesphere.net and lurked about the space on all-fours. empty water bottles grotesque. Within the span of an hour, “Have a seat,” said Woodley, fanning herself with a single and vanreipen.org on the strings of a he became a playful boy, an exulted yogi, collard.

“We’re gonna listen ’til we hear the voice of Gah.” guitar, using a standa hunched and menacing gargoyle and ing bass as percusother creatures unknown. His guttural sive instrument and sliding chainmail utterances inspired unease. across a djembe. Most notably, 7-yearEarly on, Woodley wove through the old Mathilda PE wielded pine cones, audience asking who would like snap broken tile pieces, marbles and fallen peas from a thin plastic grocery bag. leaves to produce unusual sounds from Some accepted and set them aside, her snares and cymbal. while others ate the raw treat. One man Laurent Estoppey walked outdoors tucked his behind his ear like a pencil, with his saxophone at one point, sharing attention unwavering in the presence his frenetic sound with the Glenwood of a clever actress capable of appending neighborhood. Responding intuitively to humor with the moribund. negative auditory space took precedence Referencing the peas inside the crisp over feverish crescendos. When the vegetable she said, “Sometimes you have final song dwindled, audience members beans in your breasts that sprout and heard birds chirping in the late afterturn into monsters… If you feel somenoon, and it was sublime. thin’ not movin’, like a bean, you might A few miles away in downtown have breast cancer.”

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