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It’s afternoon, Outside my house this morning the and the lushness cool air felt bracing instead of restricof the season tive; I felt it when I pretended to take out makes itself the garbage and surreptitiously took in known with warm my first cigarette of the day, there in my skies and cool driveway under the warming sun. air. It’s sunroof Here at the office, my glance keeps weather, so I drive stealing to the window, noticing how the

by Brian Clarey around a little light lays against the steel mill outside and more than usual, with the windows down the pale blue sky that hangs beyond it, and the subwoofer buzzing, the wind today like gauze, tomorrow like a blazing blowing what’s left of my blue, hard gray the day hair into a fright wig. after when a rain rolls in.

I made my first I can smell it in the I can smell it in the pass over my lawn this air — an organic, swampy air — an organic, weekend, a full workup aroma redolent of low on the day before Easter, tide in the marsh. I can swampy aroma redowhen people would be see it in the sky and its lent of low tide in the in the yard. I took both quickly shifting palette marsh. the grass and the weeds that by May will settle down to fairway level, into a deep and abiding tightened up the edges blue. I can sense it in and cleaned the shrubbery before laying my bones when I drive around with the down a new bed of black mulch. I felt the windows down and the stereo blaring like land, still saturated from the thaw, give an old fool, and feel nothing of the sort. like cork beneath my boots. When it was The big winter sleep is over; green shoots done I wore the scent of dirt and sweat are everywhere. and fresh air and clean-cut grass. I tucked It’s finally spring, and I’m done for the sunflower seeds into open spaces in the day. There’s plenty of daylight left, and I’m beds, laying in a nice surprise for the early going to take the long way home. summer.

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CITY LIFE April 05 - 11

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THURSDAY

Quilla @ GreenHill (GSO), 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY Burke Street Food Truck Festival @ Burke St. & 4th St. (W-S), 3 p.m.

New York Times bestselling author Ann B. Ross discusses Miss Julia Raises the Roof, the newest novel in her 19-book series about Southern heroine Miss Julia. Ross also makes an appearance at the Reynolda Manor Branch Library on Friday at 11:30 a.m. Learn more at bookmarksnc.org.

Political Party @ the Ramkat (W-S), 6:30 p.m.

Millennial Night partnered with Black Girls Vote, Delta Sigma Theta, the NAACP and Urban League Young Professionals to curate an unconventional political engagement event. DJ Trellz sets the atmosphere as attendees discuss issues most important to Millennials, enjoy refreshments and meet candidates running in five races ranging from the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board to the US Congress. All are welcome. Find the event on Facebook.

This songwriter’s uplifting and contemplative sound fills the gallery space this First Friday. Check out some artwork, leave a donation and find the event on Facebook.

Poetry slam @ Centennial Station Arts Center (HP), 7 p.m.

Viva le Vox, Cactus Black and Drug Yacht @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

The 6th annual festival features 70 food trucks, a vendor marketplace, a North Carolina craft beer garden, a kids area, outdoor table seating and three live music stages.

Event proceeds benefit HOPE of Winston-Salem, a nonprofit that prepares and delivers weekend meals to 40,000 Forsyth County children at risk for hunger. Learn more at facebook.com/BurkeStreetFest.

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Ann B. Ross @ Bookmarks Bookstore (W-S), 5:30 p.m.

Treat yourself to craft beer and wine during the Pullman Poet Society’s first poetry slam. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Learn more at highpointarts.org.

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Free health screenings @ Central Library (GSO), 9 a.m.

Know your HIV and STD status. Triad Health Project provides free and confidential testing while Hamilton Lakes Lion’s Club opticians conduct screenings for existing or potential hearing loss, glaucoma among other eye diseases in their state-of the-art mobile screening unit. Learn more at library.greensboro-nc.gov.

Anders Åstrand @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 7 p.m.

Kick off your weekend with Viva le Vox’s swampy rock, Winston-Salem’s Cactus Black and Durham’s Drug Yacht.

Find the event on Facebook.

Renowned composer and percussionist Anders Åstrand collaborates on new music and improvises with a full slate of local talent. Learn more at scuppernongbooks. com.

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Spring festival @ Historic Bethabara Park (W-S), 11 a.m.

This is My Land… Hebron @ Wherehouse Art Hotel (W-S), 4 p.m.

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Life is a Cabaret! @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7 p.m.

Fred Astaire Greensboro dance studio brings vaudeville, Broadway and more to the stage. Catch these professional and amateur dancers performing styles from cha cha to swing to waltz. Find the event on Facebook.

“Stay .WAVy” beatmakers forum @ Common Grounds (GSO), 7 p.m.

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Play ’round the Maypole, mosey through a garden tour or simply enjoy the (hopeful) sunshine. The historic park marks the beginning of spring with a marketplace of local vendors, a food truck rodeo and live music from Goilìn, a traditional Irish band. Find the event on Facebook.

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Maya Angelou garden party @ Bailey Park (W-S), 2 p.m.

Yousef Natsha’s short documentary examines resistance movements in the Israel-occupied Palestinian community of his childhood. A panel discussion including the filmmaker follows the screening. Expect live music and traditional food. Learn more at wherehousearthotel.com/events.

Doctor Ocular and Uncle John’s Bones @ New York Pizza (GSO), 7 p.m.

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Local beatmakers perform 10-minute sets in celebration of MTROKNWN, a nascent label and platform for producers. Find the event on Facebook.

The Deacs invite the community to celebrate the 90th birthday of the late Maya Angelou, a Wake Forest professor of more than three decades, with a poetry slam and spoken-word performances. Bring picnic blankets, lawn chairs and an empty stomach for an afternoon of food trucks, music and lawn games. Find the event on Facebook.

Doctor Ocular — touring for their latest album, Hippocratic Toast — keeps the weekend rolling with groovy jam rock, fusion jazz and electronica. Find the event on Facebook.

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Improvised psychedelic funk meets a jazzy jam band at BBJ’s. Find the event on Facebook.

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Psylo Joe and Twisted River Junction @ Blue Bourbon Jacks (HP), 9 p.m.

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4 questions for Norman Ornstein

by Jordan Green Norman Ornstein, along with co-author Thomas Mann, warned in the 2012 book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks that the extremism of the Republican Party has led Congress and the United States “to the brink of institutional collapse.” Recently, they wrote that Trump’s election represents “not a break with the past but an extreme acceleration of a process that was long underway.” Ornstein speaks at UNCG’s Elliott University Center Auditorium on April 12 at 7 p.m.

You’ve co-authored a book [One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not Yet Deported] with EJ Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist at the Washington Post. You’re a registered Democrat and a centrist, although you work for a conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. What would you say to readers to let them know you’re not just a partisan warrior and a member of the Resistance?

Through my long career — and it’s been a very long career — I’ve spent almost 50 years around Washington, and I’ve worked very intensively and intimately with people in Congress, and also with some administrations. They’ve always been members of both parties. I worked closely with a series of Republicans, going back to [Sen.] Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico. I worked with Bob Packwood and Barry Goldwater in the Senate. I worked with David Dreier on reforms in the House.

I worked with Joshua Bolten, the chief of staff for George W. Bush on the transition when W was leaving office.

The last 10 to 15 years have resulted in something that Thomas Mann [also a coauthor of One Nation Under Trump] wrote about in our previous book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks. We saw the parties polarizing, but the polarization has been asymmetric. The Republican Party has been moving from a problem-solving conservatism to a radical party, and now, with Trump, a populist radical party. But look at the strongest critics of President Trump. They’re not exclusively coming from the left. People like Bill Kristol, George Will, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Gerson, conservative intellectuals and parts of the commentariat, mostly outsiders but also a hardy number of insiders like Jeff Flake. Anybody who would call Jeff Flake a moderate hasn’t been looking at his voting record. But he’s a problem-solving conservative, and someone who’s concerned about the decline of common values and decency, and about kleptocracy.

If one side is uniquely culpable, how do you persuade Republicans to recognize the error of their ways and step back from the ledge?

Some of this is, “He’s our president, we’ll follow him.” “Put anything in front of him; he’ll sign it.” “Yes, but Neil Gorsuch.” Part of it is the fear that if you criticize the president, your constituents will be unhappy. Bob Corker and Jeff Flake — they’re not running again. If you do anything that’s considered disloyal, you’re going to have Trump tweeting at you. You’re going to have his loyal lieutenants like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham going after you.

Another reality — and this is true in both parties — [is that] the campaign money system is so out of control. Members spend so much time raising money. David Jolly, a Republican from Florida who recently retired — when he got to the House, he said he was told he needed to spend more time doing what’s known as “call time” to raise money. It degrades people.

Neither party is pure. The Democrats are not angels by any stretch. We’re at a time when there is an asymmetry. To those who say I’m going after the Republican Party and trying to destroy it, I would say that the country needs two parties that are problem-solving parties…. If it is a party that is losing its moorings, that doesn’t believe in science… a party more interested in dividing than uniting, that’s not healthy for the system. A conservative party that believes in order and believes in the rule of law — that’s something we should all wish for.

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All this sounds pretty bleak. What do you do first thing in the morning to get your head in the right space, and continue to engage in this work?

I read the sports page first, and then the comics page. No, if you’ve read our book, you know that I’m very optimistic. We are seeing all kinds of forces emerge. There are conservative intellectuals that are opposed to Trump and handful of people who are lawmakers. You can also turn to a person like John Kasich. I can look at the marches that have taken place, the large number of groups that are out there. I’m deeply heartened with what I see with this younger generation that is recognizing that if things turn out badly they’re the ones who are going to have to bear the brunt of this.

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Democracy requires that political leaders respect the other party as a legitimate opposition and it requires some compromise to get things done. Republicans have been refusing to do that for a long time and, given how extreme the Republican Party has become, Democrats might be crazy to do so. Is there any hope for salvaging democracy at this point?

Polarization is one thing. You can solve problems with polarization. Tribalism is something else. Both parties can become so tribal where you view the other party as so evil that you try to block them from accomplishing anything. The hope is that religious people and a lot of young people in the aftermath of Parkland will move us forward and allow us to create some kind of dialogue. There is a small core of people where you have to draw a line. We saw it in Charlottesville and now with Steve Bannon going to address the National Front in France and saying, “Wear your racism proudly.”

But there are a lot of areas where we can find common ground. With social issues, the people who voted for Trump, they were right in a sense to say that the system isn’t working. We need to create a society where everyone can have opportunity and thrive.

I would be Pollyannaish to say we’re going to fix this anytime soon.

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Only in Trump’s America could iconic 1980s standup comedian and 1990s sitcom actress Roseanne Barr, or Arnold or whatever, make a comeback.

True, she’s done it before: Her eponymous TV show became a hit after she butchered the National Anthem before a San Diego Padres game in 1990, spit on the ground and then grabbed her crotch, a display then-President Bush called “disgraceful.”

She fell off the radar after the original show ended in 1997. But now she, and the show, are back. And this time around Roseanne — both the real-life one and her character on the show — is a Trump supporter.

There’s a lot to unpack here: the ways in which our reality-show president has turned the national discourse into a television show, the genuine political rifts in families that the new “Roseanne” show purports to explore as well as the insistence of our TV-loving president to see himself and his supporters reflected on his flat-screen, and whether most Americans know the difference between Roseanne Barr and Rosie O’Donnell, a semi-retired talk-show host with whom the president of the United States often feuds on Twitter.

The local angle may be our best piece here: According to Nielsen, the agency that measures television engagement and, by proxy, our president’s heartbeat, the “Roseanne” reboot scored its lowest US ratings in Greensboro, which pulled ahead of San Francisco and Jacksonville, Fla. Incidentally, the show’s highest rated markets were, in order, Tulsa, Okla.; Cincinnati, Ohio and Kansas City, Mo. This time around, at least, Greensboro isn’t buying what Roseanne is selling.

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Four challengers want to end Barnes’ reign at Guilford sheriff’s office

by Jordan Green Republican BJ Barnes, who has served six terms as Guilford County Sheriff, faces fellow Republican Steve Parr in the May 8 primary.

Three Democrats — Danny Rogers, Therron (TJ) Phipps and James Zimmerman — are vying for their party’s nomination.

A 6-foot-8 giant who enjoys reeling off folksy anecdotes about national figures he’s rubbed elbows with, from Oliver North and Bill Clinton to Donald Trump, Sheriff BJ Barnes is fending off challengers from left and right this year.

“I’m not finished yet,” Barnes said.

“I’m very pleased with what we’ve accomplished. To be frank with you I could probably get as much money retiring. I love this job.”

The six-term Republican incumbent has recently taken up writing. He’s raising money for his campaign by selling copies of his memoir, The Making of a Sheriff: The Journey Taken by the Longest Serving Sheriff in Guilford County, for $100 a pop. And he said he’s recently taken up fiction writing. The protagonist is familiar: a 6-foot-8 lawman with two initials for a first name.

A popular Republican politician, Barnes has managed a rare feat in a Democrat-leaning county: getting elected sheriff six times, beginning with the 1994 Republican wave election. He doesn’t shy away from politics, having leant his office to former Gov. Pat McCrory in 2015 to sign legislation restricting a community ID used to give undocumented immigrants a sense of stability, and campaigning for Donald Trump the following year. In an election predicted to be a blue wave in reaction to Trump, Barnes’ immigration track record might spell trouble. But his politics are hard to pin down. When Trump took office and signed an executive order to seek out partnerships with local sheriffs to assist with immigration enforcement through the 287(g) program, Barnes passed. Not only is he not interested in a partnership with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but he’s defied the federal agency.

“I’m in a battle with the ICE folks,” Barnes said. “They’re asking me to do something illegal. They want me to hold these folks in jail on a detainer beyond the adjudication of their charges. That’s unconstitutional and it’s a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.”

Last year, Barnes wrote an open letter

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that.” to Congress advocating an immigraThe three Democratic candidates — tion-reform policy that mixes conformer deputy Danny Rogers, retired servative and progressive policies. “I Greensboro police Capt. Therron would deploy our military to secure the (TJ) Phipps and retired deputy James border,” he said, noting with satisfaction Zimmerman — all cite reinstating that Trump announced on Tuesday that accreditation through the Virginia-based he wants to do exactly that. “For folks Commission on Accreditation for Law here illegally, my plan and what I would Enforcement Agencies, or CALEA, as a do is give them a path to citizenship by top priority. asking them to self-report. If they don’t “It goes towards all aspects, including self-report, then they can be deported.” crime prevention and implementing The four men who want Barnes’ job, non-discrimination practices,” said including three candidates in the DemoPhipps, a former commander of Watch cratic primary and a fellow Republican Operations in the Greensboro Police Dechallenger, are all focusing to one degree partment who also served as an assessor or another on standards, staffing, emfor CALEA. “It enhances professionalployee morale and fairness. Promoting ism.”

287(g) in a political climate in which the The three Democratic candidates Democratic Party is practically aligned said accreditation would with the anti-Trump require the department to Resistance would be regularly revisit policies political suicide for the Sheriff Barnes, as opposed to only after three candidates seeking a crisis takes place, citing their party’s nomination. who supported the department’s revision But even Barnes’ RepubTrump in the 2016 of the chase policy after lican challenger, a former a collision last September deputy named Steve Parr, election, is in a resulted in five deaths. indicated he has no apbattle with ICE. Barnes said he doesn’t petite for cracking down need an outside agenon immigration. Parr cy to set standards for indicated that he doesn’t excellence in the Guilford necessarily align with the County Sheriff’s Office.

Republican Party on an ideological basis, “I dropped accreditation because the but felt pressured to switch his registraaccreditation required two people to tion when he joined the State Highway monitor it,” he said. “That’s two officers Patrol in 1985.

I could put in the field. I decided I didn’t “If we’re involved with someone need someone in Virginia telling me how committing a felony we need to get to run the sheriff’s office.”

ICE involved,” he said. “If it’s a traffic “The only thing CALEA does is it offense, then no. Pulling someone over gives you a scapegoat when things go who doesn’t have a license and it going wrong,” Barnes added. “People say, ‘We downhill and it evolving into someone did it like CALEA said we should.’ It getting deported, I don’t agree with

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does not hold people accountable.”

Phipps, Rogers and Zimmerman all emphasize building trust between the community and law enforcement, and projecting a friendlier image.

“Every call to the jail, every visit to the jail, every interaction with a bailiff in the courthouse, every stop by a deputy — that’s an opportunity to build trust,” Phipps said. “I like the saying, ‘Doing the right things the right way for the right reasons.’”

Rogers said he wants to emphasize community policing.

“You have to be educated on the different communities you serve,” he said.

“You have to spend time with them. I’m learning about the Latino community. I know what it’s like to be profiled. I know what it’s like to be told to sit down on the grass. To be asked, ‘What are you doing on this side of the county?’”

Zimmerman, who retired from the department 15 years ago after more than 31 years of service, recalled that he often walked into people’s yards to talk to them while on patrol.

“I want to make the deputies more friendly — what they should be,” he said. “The sheriff works for the people in the county. You’ve got to get out in the community and find out what the people’s needs are.”

Rogers said, if elected, he would reinstate the DARE, which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

“The DARE program hasn’t been proven to be effective,” Barnes countered. “You tell fifth and sixth graders not to use drugs, and they go into high school where they’re subject to peer pressure and it doesn’t stick. There’s no empirical evidence that the DARE

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“I know we have that airplane,” Parr said. “I don’t know of one lost child that’s been found, one dementia patient that’s been found, or field of marijuana that’s been discovered. I’d love to hear how they’re justifying the expense.”

Barnes said that, in fact, the plane has been useful.

“The plane has been involved in multiple large seizures of drugs and money,” he said. “It’s been used to assist in manhunts for criminals and to assist in located lost individuals such as Alzheimer’s patients.”

Since Barnes’ third election, Barnes’ Democratic challengers have gradually whittled down his margin of victory, from 30 points in 2002 to 12.2 points when Rogers won the Democratic nomination four years ago. Despite advantages in name recognition and fundraising, Barnes holds a reputation for taking his opponents seriously and hitting hard when he sees an opening. In an interview, Barnes noted that two of his opponents have blemishes on their criminal records, and one has a lawsuit against the Greensboro Police Department.

Parr told Triad City Beat that as a state trooper he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after the Wake County District Attorney’s office threatened him with increasing the charge to a felony. The charge stemmed from a traffic stop.

“I hope the plus that comes out of this is I realize how serious it can be when you get put in the system,” Parr said.

“Here I felt like I hadn’t done anything wrong. I want to make sure before anyone gets charged that we’re sure of the facts.”

Reflecting on the incident, Parr said, “At the time I thought I was using just about the right amount of force necessary to affect the arrest. Looking back, I’m sure I could have done things differently.”

Barnes said Rogers has been the sub-

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program worked.”

Rogers said he simply disagrees with the studies.

“I believe that putting the DARE program back in the schools with quality men and women who can influence our youth, it will work,” he said.

Steve Parr, Barnes’ Republican challenger, pledges to add 24 deputies to patrol and improve staffing at the jail, the latter by creating a talent pipeline from area colleges.

Barnes scoffs at the idea of his opponent either persuading the Guilford County Commission to fund new positions or finding personnel to reassign from other divisions.

“Neither he nor anyone else is going to get 24 more officers,” Barnes said. “I asked for two, and the county commissioners refused to fund them. I can’t pull them from anywhere else. I’ve got an increase in civil papers and an increase in pistol permits for my people to process.”

Parr said he believes he could beef up patrols by reprioritizing resources.

“I think we have enough manpower; it’s where it’s allocated,” he said. “We have a gun unit doing electronic monitoring. There’s a DWI task force that we’ve got several people assigned to.

They’re working in Greensboro and High Point. We’ve got a lot of people assigned to specialized units. We need to get drunk drivers off the road, but we don’t need to have our deputies patrolling downtown Greensboro and High Point.”

Parr has also questioned whether the sheriff’s office’s use of drug forfeiture funds under Barnes is fiscally responsible. Barnes said the agency has used drug forfeiture funds to buy land to build the new jail in downtown Greensboro, computers, an armored vehicle and a small plane that’s shared by with neighboring sheriff’s office through a regional compact.

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ject of 50B orders, which are issued by the courts to restrain a defendant from domestic violence. Triad City Beat reported in 2014 that Rogers has 16 different criminal charges on his record, although most were dismissed.

Rogers declined in a recent interview to discuss his record in detail. “Yes, I’ve dealt with life challenges,” he said, “but those are behind me.”

Phipps has an ongoing discrimination suit filed against the Greensboro Police Department, the city of Greensboro and former police Chief Ken Miller, dating back to 2013.

Phipps, who obtained the rank of captain in 2007, alleges in the suit that he was passed over for assistant chief and deputy chief for three colleagues, including current Chief Wayne Scott.

“I would say I have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind,” Phipps said. “I will bring that perspective to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. If you’re qualified for a job you’re going to compete on a level playing field.”

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What we know about the police shooting of Edward Van McCrae

by Jordan Green A Winston-Salem police officer fatally shot 60-year-old Edward Van McCrae during a traffic stop two days before Easter. Officer DE McGuire suggests McCrae was reaching for a gun when the officer fired. Law enforcement officials say they recovered a gun from the scene.

Beyond that, many of the details are murky.

What happened? Edward Van McCrae was fatally shot by Winston-Salem police Officer DE McGuire during a traffic stop on Bowen Boulevard in northeast Winston-Salem at 10:34 p.m. on March 30. The police have said in a press release that during the traffic stop McGuire observed a man in the backseat, later identified as McCrae, making a “suspicious movement” and that the officer ordered McCrae “to stop reaching towards concealed areas” of the vehicle. After the officer called for emergency backup and ordered McCrae out of the vehicle, the two men reportedly struggled. The police said McCrae ignored McGuire’s commands to “stop reaching,” and during the struggle “a handgun became visible to Officer McGuire.” After further commands to not reach for a gun, the police said McGuire shot McCrae.

Was a firearm recovered from the scene? Although the police press release doesn’t mention it, Capt. Steve Tolley, head of the criminal investigations division, told Triad City Beat on March 31 that a firearm was recovered from the scene and turned over to the State Bureau of Investigation, which sent a supervisor to respond to the shooting.

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. Scott Williams, the special agent in charge for the State Bureau of Investigation’s Northern Piedmont District, also confirmed that a handgun was recovered from the scene.

What was the reason for the traffic stop? City officials declined to respond to a question about the reason for the traffic stop during a press conference on Monday. Chief Catrina Thompson was present but did not respond to questions; Bishop Todd Fulton, social justice chair of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity, said Thompson was constrained from commenting because the shooting is under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation. But the Winston-Salem Journal is reporting that radio traffic between Officer McGuire and dispatch indicates

the stop was for a license check.

Is there police body-camera video documenting the incident?

Yes, the police department has indicated that Officer McGuire activated his body camera at the time he initiated the traffic stop.

Will the public ever see the footage? Councilman James Taylor, who chairs the public safety committee, vowed transparency during a press conference on Monday. “It is incumbent on the police department and the district attorney’s office to release the footage as soon as possible,” he said. In a previous case involving a man who died in the custody of the Winston-Salem police during an arrest on Dec. 9, 2015, District Attorney Jim O’Neill released police video. But since that time, the state General Assembly has passed a law declaring that police body-camera video is not a public record. The footage may legally be released under limited circumstances, but only through a court order by a superior court judge.

Individual judges have made the call in different ways: In Guilford County, Superior Court Judge Susan Bray ruled in February that Greensboro City Council members may review police video of a contested encounter with a civilian, but may not make public statements about the content of the video. But in May 2017, Superior Court Judge Richard Gottlieb ordered the release of police body-camera video of a traffic stop by a Winston-Salem police officer. In that case, the city petitioned for the public release of the video as “the best way for the city to tell the whole story” after witness video by a bystander went viral.

What about the SBI report? In State Bureau of Investigation reviews of use-of-force incidents by local law enforcement, the state agency typically submits a report to the district attorney at the conclusion of the investigation.

The decision is at the discretion of the district attorney. As Mayor Allen Joines said in response to a question at the press conference on Monday: “The answer to that specific question will have to await the final SBI report — that’s if the district attorney releases it.”

How has the community responded? The Ministers’ Conference, which played a prominent role in the

Officer DE McGuire is on administrative leave while the SBI investigates the shooting death of Edward McCrae.

community response to the 2015 death of Travis Page, presented a united front with city officials during a press conference on Monday. Bishop Todd Fulton touted the pastors’ rapport with Chief Thompson. “In the past we have not always had a very transparent working relationship with the Winston-Salem Police Department,” Fulton said. “But I’m grateful to say today that we do have that…. We are confident in our elected officials. We are confident in our police chief. She’s been very intentional about making sure there’s transparency, and before something bad happens, she brings us in as clergy. We have what’s called ‘trust talks.’… What brings us here today is we have loss of life with Mr. McCrae; our prayers go out to his family.

We also have a police officer who’s under investigation, and our prayers go out to him and his family.”

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Does the Ministers’ Conference speak for everyone in the black community? No. The press conference was designated for “press only” although it was also attended by numerous police officers and elected officials, but about 20 people gathered outside the building to demonstrate concern about the city’s handling of McCrae’s death. Michael Banner, an urban farmer who attended the press conference, told TCB: “They’re trying to put this balm over this like everything is going well. We’ve got the Ministers’ Conference and the NAACP speaking for us as if everything is great, when underneath it’s festering. The dynamics are very complex and there’s a lot of layers in this community, but they will turn their frustrations toward this.

It’s like a boil. That’s what the community is going through.”

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What was Edward McCrae like? Banner said McCrae’s expertise on the law made him a trusted advisor to other incarcerated individuals.

“Anyone who knows this man knows he’s a jailhouse lawyer — that’s not a derogatory term — a state pen lawyer,” Banner said. “He’s a refined, sharp lawyer, and he don’t back down easily.

“Edward McCrae was a very family-oriented man,” Banner COURTESY PHOTO Edward McCrae continued. “He loved his family. He was not a loose person. He was necessarily escalated the situation. actually someone who colored inside “The police are known for sitting the lines.

He was a very detail-oriented right there in that curve next to the park person — sharp, shaved and bald-head[where the traffic stop occurred] to catch ed.

When he talked to you, you might people in traffic violations,” Banner said. take it that he’s talking very aggressively.

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A war on real news The best piece of curated aggregation this year came from an unlikely source.

The mash-up of dozens of Sinclair broadcasters across the country reading from the same script — one denouncing all news but theirs as potentially “fake” even as they delivered the piece of propaganda in lockstep —came from the desk of Deadspin editor Timothy Burke, who apparently knocked it out in a fit of righteous citizenship before getting back to breaking sports news, making slam-dunk compilations and generating lists about why your favorite team sucks.

The widespread dissemination of this bullshit comprises the first offensive maneuver in what is slowly morphing into an all-out war against the legitimate press, waged from behind the safety of an alternate universe provided by pretenders and grifters.

This war started long ago, with the formation of Fox News in 1996. But action in this particular theater — the public airwaves — began when Sinclair Broadcasting amassed more than 200 network-television affiliate stations across the United States.

They’ve got two in this market, one of which is ABC affiliate WXLV at channel 45.

And make no mistake: This is a war, one not of missiles and bullets but of information and fact, and it’s just getting started.

Coordinating with the Sinclair piece of puppetry, two of the five tweets President Trump issued on Tuesday concerned the “Fake News Networks” and “Little Jeff Zuker [sic].” Surely he is not done yet.

Later on Tuesday, David Smith, who is executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group and who sounds like he has a fake name, told New York magazine that the print media — the entire enterprise — “serves no real purpose,” has “no credibility” and “generally [a] complete lack of integrity.”

The claim is the same one peddled by every commander at the helm of an unjust war, every grifter who is trying to pull off an unusually large con, or every philandering partner who wants to continue their cheating ways: Everybody is lying to you but us.

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Exactly one year before his assassination, during his speech opposing the Vietnam war at Riverside Church in New York City, King concluded that racial oppression was inextricably bound up with poverty and militarism.

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of COURTESY PHOTO The ’60s can seem more real than the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical the present. revolution of values,” he said. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented career — from the Montgomery bus boycott through the society. When machines and computers, profit motives Birmingham children’s crusade and Selma to the Memphis and property rights, are considered more important than sanitation workers strike — have a feel of being preserved people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism in ether. It’s as though the dramas that culminated in 1968 and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” were so stunning that we’ve become numb to all the history At the time of his death, King was organizing the Poor that unfolded afterwards.

People’s Campaign, an effort that broadened his purview It’s instructive that the historic span since King’s death is from civil rights to an interracial movement for economic equal to the time that passed from the end of World War I justice, and it was logical that he would go to Memphis to to 1968 — an era that included the Great Depression, the support the sanitation workers strike. As an indication of New Deal and the establishment of labor law, the defeat how relevant King’s vision is today, or of fascism, the Cold War and the perhaps how little progress has been civil rights movement, of course. made in the intervening half cenat America’s course after The mythology around King’s Looking tury, the Ministers’ Conference of King, it’s hard to see a picture of Winston-Salem & Vicinity is leading legacy was set in motion beprogress: The stultifying racialized a rally and ecumenical service today identified by the Kerner fore the assassin’s bullet had poverty to support a $15-an-hour minimum Commission remains unaltered, wage for city workers. schools have re-segregated, even found its mark.

The mythology around King’s the labor movement has been legacy was set in motion before the knocked down, the carceral state assassin’s bullet had even found its has ballooned, the middle class mark. In King’s final speech at Masonic Temple in Memhas hollowed out while wealth inequality has exploded, and phis, he said on the eve of his death: “Like anybody, I would 9/11 precipitated endless wars abroad and imperial decline. like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not A few bright spots include black electoral representation, concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And increased recognition of the rights of gay and trans people, He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked and professional advancement for women. over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there History doesn’t stop. Yet strangely, the 1960s can seem with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a more real than the seismic events of the past 50 years. people, will get to the promised land!”

History records that social tensions were coming to a boil in Since King’s material death is an indisputable fact, it’s 1968 because of frustration among young people that the tempting to believe the other half of the couplet — that raVietnam war had dragged on so long. Yet full-scale military cial harmony and economic justice lay just over the horizon. commitment in Vietnam began only in August 1964. How The saying often quoted by King — “the moral arc of the many people even consider that the Afghanistan War has universe is long, but it bends towards justice” — reinforces been underway for 16 years now with no end in sight? the myth of a nation redeemed through the sacrifice of a Hope is hard-wired into the human psyche, so it’s hard to martyr. give up the idea that a promised land was the consolation It’s both a cliché and true to say that the Dream remains prize for King’s death. Maybe, instead, we might recognize, unfulfilled. Unfortunately, King is such an outsized figure like King, that we have the option of being actors in history that his death has become a kind of historic coda. The instead of victims to it. string of campaigns that marked King’s relatively short

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What has the turnout at Leveneleven been like? Was it what you expected?

Turnout has been soft, but seems to be picking up a little each week. In the first couple weeks, most people checking out the brewery were also customers of the store. But now I’m starting to notice more unfamiliar faces, and some of the questions we’re getting about the beers are obviously not from a homebrewing audience. In some ways, starting off slow has been good because we’ve never run a taproom, and it’s easier to figure things out with 15-20 customers versus a packed house. I did expect people would really like our beer, and while we might not be shoulder-to-shoulder deep every night, that happily seems to be the case.

What’s been challenging this first month?

We had some issues with parking since the Coliseum is across the street.

There was some miscommunication during those first couple of big events, but we’ve worked with the landlord on

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things like signage so people won’t have any trouble in the fushade of orange and has a nice citrus flavor from Amarillo ture. Thankfully, there’ve been few challenges in the brewery. hops, as well as some ripe passionfruit notes. It’s a tasty beer, That’s the one place where things have been fairly easy, largely and one I’d venture to say you’d enjoy even if IPA isn’t your because of our homebrew experience and because we’ve thing. We recently brewed a Vienna Lager, one of my favorite worked extremely hard to make things easy on ourselves. In styles. I’m looking forward to when we brew a Kolsch because hindsight, maybe we shouldn’t have spent so much time tryit’s a style Dan enjoys and is very good at. I would love to see ing to figure out how a glycol us always try to keep something system works or how to scale Belgian going. I very much enjoy up our recipes so they come out brewing Belgian beers because Visit Leveneleven Brewing at 1111 Coliseum right. I guess we should have the yeast can be challenging to been on social media hyping work with.

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How has Big Dan’s Brew What’s your favorite beer on Shed been? Have y’all gotten tap right now? more customers as a result of the brewery?

I’m partial to the golden ale. It has most everything I like: inThe shop has been doing fairly well. We’ve suffered some teresting flavors with good balance, and a crisp, dry finish that since moving from the old location, and homebrewing as a makes it highly drinkable. I also really like the porter because hobby, in general, is in decline. We also recently modified our we missed our temperatures while mashing and ended up with hours to a call-in/pick-up system Tuesday through Thursday something that wasn’t exactly a porter. We “saved” it by addso we can brew, and regular hours Friday and Saturday since ing pounds of various types of sugar, something we wouldn’t those are the busiest days for the store. I’ve seen several have been able to easily do if we didn’t have a homebrew shop new faces, but I’m not sure it’s because of the brewery. But I next door. So that beer highlights a couple of aspects that have noticed about two-thirds of our homebrew customers make us unique: we can use different ingredients because we who come in while the brewery’s open wander over and get have them in stock, and we know how to fix a beer because a beer or two. I’m just waiting for the day when we have that we’re always helping homebrewers get into or out of trouble. argumentative customer who doesn’t like the advice we give or doesn’t think we know what we’re talking about. I’m going What types of beers are you in the process of making? to send them over to the brewery, buy them a beer and say the The next beer on tap will be an IPA called Arnge Ale. Dan proof is in the pudding! came up with the recipe and keeps it in the store. Some of our customers ended up making it themselves and doing well with it in competitions. As the name suggests, the beer is a lovely

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had to work faster than we normally do in preparing the songs. That meant that when we got to the studio not all of the songs were finished. So that was probably the first time we were really rethinking things in a more open way even after we were in the studio.

We really wanted to record with Todd back in 2016 but he ended up not being available.

But he was available in January [2017] but we were so antsy to make a record that we ended up recording Mountain that summer of 2016 in Durham with some local producers. But we still had the plans to work with Todd out in Oregon. And because there are four of us we end up having a lot of material to choose from.”

Edges Run remains firmly rooted in the acoustic, Americana genre, and yet gracefully pushes the envelope, incorporating more percussion, electric stringed instruments, COURTESY IMAGE Mipso’s new piece, Edges Run, furthers the Americana paradigm, adding electric tastefully blending the strings and percussion to the mix. mainstream sound with came out in the process though. Todd really dove in deep and pure songwriting and traditional Appalachian sounds. With arranged very meticulously and so we sort of came together songs like “Edges Run” and “All Behind Me now,” Mipso’s stelin a different way for the first time. He had ideas that none of lar use of harmony and deep layers of sound bring out a level us would have thought of on our own. It’s cool to work with a of maturity comparable to Neil Young, Fleet Foxes and Fleetproducer who lays back and lets you do your own thing, but it wood Mac. But the beauty of Edges Run didn’t come without was incredible to work with someone like Todd who became challenges. basically like a fifth band member.”

“We were all in really close quarEdges Run marks the height of Mipters for the record,” Rodenbough so’s talents of lyricism, structure and said. “We stayed at this tiny Airbnb For tour dates and to purchase arrangements to date. And with a and were at the studio every day. It Edges Run visit mipsomusic.com band starting to pull in myriad direcwas really cold outside so no one tions, the four members, along with wanted to leave to get space and Sickafoose, managed to blend the so it all made it that much more various colors in their sonic palette stressful and put burdens on us all. and paint a new picture.

The studio was the toughest part. The four of us were going “We sort of found that that was the whole theme all along,” through a difficult time personally, just by coincidence, that Rodenbough said. “The songs have themes like memory, got enhanced by that experience. It was also a very dark time childhood, growth and loss, and we saw all of these moments for the country, and still is, just a few weeks before the presiin life as not exactly certain but more bleeding into the next. dential inauguration, and it was a heavy winter, super gray and It just made sense after all of it. In a really dark time, it was dark and everything just felt heavy for that month. I think it all something beautiful that we needed.”

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Its 2016 LP Coming Down the Mountain earned them the No. 1 spot on the Billboard bluegrass charts. But when it came to their latest effort, Edges Run, available April 6, a different side of the band emerged in the writing process.

“There are a variety of ways we write,” fiddler and vocalist Libby Rodenbough said. “But usually one person writes the bones of the song, melody or some lyrics or chords, then we analyze it as a band and end up shaking it up. Either changing progressions or moving things around. So we sort of master-class the songs as a band. But for this record there are a few co-writes which we’d never really done before.”

For songs like “Take Your Records Home” and the single “Edges Run,” the band developed a new process that began to change the way that they viewed their music and themselves.

“On ‘Take Your Records Home,’ it was a song I originally wrote and then Joseph [Terrell] asked if he could rewrite it with his own interpretation,” Rodenbough said. “He made some changes in the structure and some lyrics and then we had this co-write, and it was sort of an assembly line process but what came out was something entirely new.”

For some bands, this process might cause strife and has even caused bands to part ways, but for Mipso, it did just the opposite.

“It was something I had never done before,” Rodenbough said. “It forces you to sort of silence your ego, and that’s an important exercise generally in the band. We’re very democratic and so egos just don’t work with us.”

Edges Run surpasses Mipso’s previous works by giving meticulous attention to structure and overall songwriting.

Since the band’s launch in 2011, each album has reflected giant steps forward in maturity. And with Edges Run the poetry of their lyrics sing through even deeper, along with a special highlight of musicianship and exploration of structure, something that producer Todd Sickafoose (Andrew Bird, Anïas Mitchell) brought out in the band.

“We had recorded [Coming Down the Mountain] in June of 2016, and we’d never made two records consecutively or so quickly,” Rodenbough said. “So we

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Architect Charles C. Hartmann designed and developed the 9, 200-squarefoot, 27-room mansion known as the Hillside Estate in a single year, 1928-29, for then-prominent insurance executive Julian Price. The sprawling homestead, which sits on 1.6 acres overlooking the western hemisphere of Fisher Park, entered the national consciousness last January when it became the site of an episode on “Hoarders,” an A&E television reality series about people who fill their homes with relics and artifacts.

Previous owner and well-respected interior designer Sandra Cowart lived there for more than four decades before Eric and Michael Fuko-Rizzo purchased the home from Bank of America last September, which foreclosed on Cowart after a prolonged court battle.

This Saturday morning, they open massive, hand-forged doors on strapped hinges to the public through at least the end of the month. Those craving a richer immersive experience can schedule unscripted evening tours with owners

Debby Gomulka designed the formal dining room, the second-largest space in the house.

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Michael and Eric. Proceeds will benefit Preservation Greenssuch as the colossal Chinese fir. boro.

A porte-cochére at the back entry covers the octagonal The couple coordinated with Preservation Greensboro board entryway that now features four silver panels, salvaged from a member and Project Chair Linda Lane to vet designers and arfolding dressing partition, mounted on the walls. chitects tasked with restoring and reimagining the estate into Bobbi Jo Engelby of Domain Interiors pasted iridescent a designer showhouse and the Fuko-Rizzo’s new residence, sheets of mica to the grand foyer ceiling, which leads into the which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and vast abode’s largest room — the drawing room. The original Guilford County’s list of historically significant properties. mantel of decorative terra cotta on the opposite provides They sent away thousands of pieces of small metal harda rare example of a cast plaster ceiling with eye-catching ware — door knobs, screws and all — and 876 panes of glass cornices in North Carolina, let alone Greensboro. A piano from to Texas for restoration, but stone the late 19th Century rests on birch floors that are arranged in a peg and cut from the Blue Ridge Mountains, board style, eliciting a rustic hunting buttressed by brick-and-mortar, holds Learn more at julianpricehouse. lodge. Audrey Margarite of Bunny Wilstrong. Hartmann’s workers likely liams Home lined original books and forged building materials on-site. com and see the home at 301 encyclopedias on a window seat.

The façade features coarse stucco, Fisher Park Circle (GSO).

In all, 21 design firms participated herringbone brick, huge chimneys in the redesign, including a group of and a stair tower, low stone retaining 10 UNCG students. Travis Hicks, an walls and winding flagstone walkways associate professor at UNCG’s School of Interior Architecture surrounded by bespoke landscaping, the most expensive facet and director of Center for Community-Engaged Design, led a of the makeover: The excavation of a “bamboo forest” took a class of 10 seniors as they restyled what is now an in-law suite week, revealing mature trees, some original to the property

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Dauray, who describes her style as “curated whimsy,” fashioned a charming, petite library with clean lines and tasteful gold accents. Vibrant teal walls demand attention in the sunny room in contrast with built-in bookshelves Dauray painted with black lacquer.

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“This was definitely an eye-opening experience and one we might never get again,” student Bailey Chu said. “Everything here was donated or borrowed and being students and not having previous relationships or accounts with vendors.

It was a really hard process.”

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The sprawling mansion overlooks the western hemisphere of Fisher Park.

and installed a playful, walk-in dry bar featuring a vision-exam chart and a trompe l’oeil with two facing mirrors.

In contrast, master bedroom designer Leigh S. Jones of Burlington-based design company The Very Thing Ltd.,

finished pine and steel window frames on the family’s side switch to wooden frames.

Upstairs, five bedrooms lodged family and guests and another three housed live-in help. A telephone nook rests in an inset in the wall at the top of the winding staircase, convenient to the daughter who lived across the hall — with a long cord she was able to bring the phone into her room. It’s now a serene guest room splashed with lavender, matching Kohler purple bathroom pieces in the original Kohler colors, including a pastel green and yellow.

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balanced contemporary elements with traditional ones. Bright paintings from North Carolina artist Sherry McAdams adorn the walls while Jones insisted upon preserving the portero negro marble that encircles a fireplace opposite the bed. She specializes in antique bedding and her signature, luxurious Hungarian goose down pillows ornament the bed, styled with a rich golden fabric backboard.

Despite the designer’s upgrades, the class dynamics of Price’s day still live in the floorboards. Where the bottom floor splits between family space and areas where staff would have spent most of their time, floorboards switch to un-

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