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Notes at the end of the season

by Brian Clarey

It’s the season of short days and long drives, and through my windshield the bare, black limbs of the trees look like bony claws, scratching away

against a low, ashen sky.

It will be dark soon.

There’s not much business to drum up in the waning days before Christmas so I’ve been tinkering with the back end of the website some, filling next year’s calendar, doing the long math of the entrepreneur after the sun goes hastily down.

But the news cycle always provides — this year with a flurry of election filings after our new Congressional districts took hold.

And, of course, our nation’s travails in the capital, where on Tuesday the House formally resolved to impeach the president.

This too, will end by and by.

In the meantime, I’m trying to dial it back. We’re getting the home fires lit for a long holiday stretch, one of a dwindling few before all of these kids are gone from

the house. Plans are settling — gatherings, performances, tasks, rides — and lists are being made. Perhaps we’ll check everything off before Christmas dinner.

The news business thrives on pressure: deadlines, cycles, the cost of making a mistake out there on the live, high wire.

Spend too much time submerged in it, and you become like one of those dense, ugly fish that live in the very bottom of the ocean; if they swim too close to the surface where the water pressure is lower, they’ll explode.

I’m pulling back by reading fewer newspapers and watching more Netflix, being more social, taking the long way to work and heading home before it gets too dark.

Another week of this, and I might even get to have a few proper days off.

Can’t get too close to the surface, though. Holiday season or no, there will be news in the coming weeks — the last few days of December are classic for controversial information dumps — and then there’s a four-year election to deal with; campaigning has already begun.

Soon enough the days will grow longer.

For now it’s enough to enjoy the dark.

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CITY LIFE Dec. 12-15, 2019

by Savi Ettinger

THURSDAY Dec. 12

Elf Christmas Party @ Boxcar Bar + Arcade (GSO), 4 p.m.

SATURDAY Dec. 14

Winter Wherehouse Art Mart @ the Ramkat (W-S), 12 p.m.

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Community Christmas @ High Point University, 5:30 p.m.

High Point University’s ninth annual Christmas fest invites everyone for an evening of food, activities and games. Snap a picture with Santa and by a life-size nativity scene, or visit a petting zoo or a music performance. Find the event on Facebook.

Grab any green and red clothing, tights and jingle-bell-topped hats for this Elf inspired costume contest. Younger kids may face off in a snowball toss tournament, while costumed gusts may show off their best dance for a chance at a prize. Find the event at Facebook.

Southbound Craft Fair @ Winston Junction Market (W-S), 6 p.m.

Satoshi’s Ghost @ Sunrise Books (HP), 6:30 p.m.

This 12-hour art market features more than 25 creators, along with bands and food, all set up by the Wherehouse Art Museum.

Enjoy catering by Krankies and browse a variety of fine artworks. Find the event on Facebook.

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The Shortest Day: A Winter Concert @ Doodad Farms (GSO), 6 p.m.

This seasonal concert evokes all the feelings of the Winter Solstice, bringing together poetry and singing with original and traditional string music. A potluck precedes the event. Find the event on Facebook.

Join Micheal Hayworth at Sunrise Books for the release and signing of his new book, Satoshi’s Ghost. The fiction piece explores a journalist trying to find the truth behind the missing person who created Bitcoin and the flight he was supposed to be on.

Find the event on Facebook.

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Firefly Market @ West 4th Street (W-S), 5 p.m.

Dozens of vendors offer anything from antiques to small, handmade creations. Aside from the dozens of booths, live music breezes through the downtown street, with Thom Crumpton as December’s special guest. Find the event on Facebook.

Peruse the wares of local crafting experts, finding both new items and vendors who frequent the Winston Junction Market.

Friday night kicks off the art sale, with extended hours on Saturday. Learn more on Facebook.

Artists-in-Residence Showing @ Greensboro Cultural Center, 7:30 p.m.

Witness the works of the Greensboro Dance Festival’s artists in residence as they share sneak peeks into their works in progress. Each dancer conveys their artistic explorations through improvisation or careful choreography. Find the event on Facebook.

Running of the Balls @ Sunset Hills (GSO), 6 p.m.

Travel by foot through laps of Sunset Hills, the Greensboro neighborhood known for extraordinary holiday lights every year. Run the track, or slow it down and take in all the displays. Learn more at therunningoftheballs.com.

The Yule Ball @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 7 p.m.

For the winter season, step into Hogwarts.

Scuppernong Books’ Teen Lit Assembly hosts this night of both costumes and concerts. Enjoy musicians performing live while giving trivia a shot. Find the event on Facebook.

SUNDAY Dec. 15

A Christmas Memory @ Reynolda House Museum (W-S), 4 p.m.

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Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” sold for $120,000 this past week. But is it art?

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because it’s degradable, it speaks to our own mortality. And maybe it’s just a banana taped to a wall. But isn’t that kind of the point of art? To challenge, to make one think, to spark conversation? And then, if you add the fact that a self-promoting “performance artist” came up a day later and ate the banana right off the wall, that adds another layer to the story and to the piece itself. While Cattelan hasn’t commented on the “vandalism,” any buyers of the pieces were instructed to replace the banana every week or so because of its impermanent nature.

So, is it art?

To answer this, I look to art critic Arthur Danto.

“The status of an artifact as work of art results from the ideas a culture applies to it, rather than its inherent physical or perceptible qualities,” he states. “Cultural interpretation (an art theory of some kind) is therefore constitutive of an object’s arthood.”

In a sense, because of how much attention and thought we’ve put into this banana on a wall, that’s what makes it art — it’s our own fault.

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Candles and Carols @ Dunleath Historic Neighborhood (GSO), 6 p.m.

Dunleath invites the community to join a holiday tradition and light up the night with luminaries like fake candles and lanterns. The streets fill with the sounds of festive caroling. Find the event on Facebook.

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Horse and buggy rides @ Miller Rec Center (W-S), 5 p.m.

Bundle up and head outdoors to hop into a horsedrawn buggy for a family-friendly ride. Each ride offers the chance to be carted around with friends and family.

Twin City Hive sells coffee, tea and hot chocolate to keep guests warm. Find the event on Facebook.

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This performance tells a tale of Truman Capote’s childhood holiday traditions, as told by his cousin Sook. Led

by Robin Voiers, the live storytelling hits its 33rd year in a row. Find the event on Facebook.

Precious. Prank. Delicious.

These are the words used to describe the piece of art that’s taken not only the art world, but broader society as well by storm.

“Comedian” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was unveiled at Art Basel in Miami last week during the annual premier international art show.

Created in a set of threes, the piece has been steeped in controversy ever since it first graced the festival’s starkwhite walls. It’s challenging to some, infuriating to others and simply confusing for most of us. Oh, and it’s a banana duct taped to a wall. And the versions have sold for $120,000 to $150,000 each.

Upon first booking our flights to Miami for last week, my fiancé and I didn’t initially even realize that the art show was going on at the same time. But after finding out that the annual to-do would be happening, we thought, Why not?

So, we picked up tickets for a reasonable 60 bucks each.

Housed mostly in Miami Beach’s convention center, the show spans five days and presents work from more than 200 galleries from across the world. Close to 80,000 attendees visit each year.

As soon as we stepped into the building, it was immediately clear to me and my fiancé, that we were out of place at the show. Despite it’s rather-affordable tickets, it seemed like everyone in the space came decked out in brand-name get-ups and designer sneakers while we wore crop tops and jeans and short sleeves and slacks. We even ran into Serena Williams, who shopped the market with her daughter and an assistant. (I freaked out and called almost everyone I knew immediately.)

So it’s not surprising that a simple banana — not a sculpture of a banana or even a photograph of one, but an actual banana — adhered to a wall with a sideways strip of duct tape sold for more than $100,000.

At first glance, it’s consumerism and hedonism at its finest.

During my time as an art history student, I was often confronted with the age-old question: What is art?

And that’s exactly the question everyone around the world has been asking themselves since the controversial fruit made headlines a few days ago.

Let’s start with Cattelan’s background as an artist.

Emerging into prominence in the late 1980s and ’90s, Cattelan made wooden furniture in Italy. From there, he transitioned to creating satirical sculptures like “LOVE,” a statue of a large middle finger cut from marble; “La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour),” which depicts a sculpture of Pope John Paul II being hit by a meteorite; and his most famous work until “Comedian,” “America,” an 18-karat solid gold toilet which was offered on loan to President Trump after the Guggenheim declined his initial request for a painting by Van Gogh.

So based on his past work, it’s not the like the man can’t create what people consider art. And yet, this new “sculpture” if you want to call it that, seems lazy, shallow and self-indulgent.

But maybe there’s something else here. Maybe it’s meant to be a commentary on the absurdity of art and the art market and the way we value things as a society. Maybe,

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Treats for Santa Paws @ the Barking Deck (GSO), 4 p.m.

The Barking Deck teams up with All Pets Considered to set up a pet-friendly snack stop. Grab a treat and pile on the toppings and icing in any design you can think of. Find the event on Facebook.

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Is it art? The banana that sold for $120,000

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Democrats see Triad as ‘pivotal’ to retaking General Assembly

by Jordan Green New state legislative maps spur Democrats to make a play in the Triad.

North Carolina Democrats see a road to retaking control of the General Assembly through the suburbs of the Triad.

The remedial maps for state legislative districts approved by the courts for the 2020 elections in October curbed Republican partisan gerrymandering, providing new openings for Democratic candidates.

Democratic gains in the 2018 midterms broke the Republicans’ veto-proof supermajority. To preserve their majorities in the two legislative chambers and hold onto power in the 2020 election, Republicans can afford to lose up to four seats in the House and three seats in the Senate without resulting in a deadlock.

Likewise, Democrats would need to pick up six seats in the House and five in the Senate to take control.

Flip NC, a volunteer, Democrataligned group, is declaring that “the NC House majority is up for grabs for the first time in a decade.” Among three “pivotal districts” targeted by the group are District 59, a large swatch of eastern Guilford County represented by Majority Whip Jon Hardister, and District 74, a western Forsyth County district where current representative Debra Conrad is retiring.

Hardister, a four-term incumbent who has ascended into the Republican leadership ranks, faces a challenge from Nicole Quick, the former chair of the Guilford County Democrats. At the time she filed her organizational report in late September, Quick had raised $10,260, while Hardister’s most recent filing shows him holding a $61,197 campaign war chest. Democratic activists are looking to the presidential campaign to rally sporadic Democratic voters to offset Hardister’s advantage.

In Forsyth County, Dan Besse, a Democrat who is serving his fourth term on Winston-Salem City Council, has raised $25,318 in his run for the District 74 seat. Two years ago, Besse mounted an unsuccessful challenge against Republican Donny Lambeth in District 75. Republican Jeff Zenger, a Lewisville town councilman, has also filed for the seat. Zenger has no campaign finance reports on file with the state Board of Elections. Flip NC rates District 74 as

favorable to the Republican candidate by 4 points, but as the sixth most competitive race in the state, a win for Besse would likely usher in Democratic control of the House.

Derwin Montgomery, the Democratic incumbent in District 72, withdrew his candidacy for the state legislative seat to run for the 6th Congressional District.

Montgomery’s exit clears the field for Amber Baker and Lashun Huntley, both Democrats who filed on Monday.

Baker is the principal of Kimberly Park Elementary, while Huntley is the CEO of United Health Centers, a network of health clinics in Winston-Salem.

In nearby District 71, Democrat Evelyn Terry has drawn a primary challenge from Kanika Brown.

Republican Donny Lambeth, a senior budget writer in the House, told Triad City Beat that he plans to file for re-election in District 75, which covers Kernersville and the eastern portion of Forsyth County.

John Faircloth, a five-term lawmaker who represents northwest Guilford County and portions of High Point, has drawn a Democratic challenger in District 62. Brandon Gray of Oak Ridge describes himself as a “24-year-old political science major” on his website.

The four Democrats in the Guilford County state House delegation are running unopposed so far, including Ashton Clemmons in District 57, Amos Quick in District 58, Cecil Brockman in District 60 and Pricey Harrison in District 61.

The remedial map made dramatic changes to the state Senate districts in Forsyth. Formerly drawn with a Democrat-favored district in the urban core of Winston-Salem and a Republicanfavored district creating a suburban donut, the new map bisects the county, with District 32 covering the west and much of Winston-Salem, while the new District 31 takes in Kernersville and the eastern section of Forsyth County along with the entirety of Davie County.

Democrat Paul Lowe filed for re-election in District 32.

Flip NC is targeting District 31, where Republican incumbent Joyce Krawiec is filing for re-election. The map changes shift the district 14 points to the left, but it still leans Republican by five points, according to Flip NC’s analysis. Democrats performed poorly in the areas covered by the new district in 2018, but Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came within four points of carrying it in 2016. With strong Democratic turnout in next year’s presidential election, Flip NC views District 31 as being within striking distance.

Assuming two easy pickups in Mecklenburg and Wake counties, Democratic wins in District 31 and two other districts in northeastern North Carolina and the Rocky Mount area would hand control of the Senate over to the Democrats.

Republican Joyce Krawiec, a social-conservative lawmaker who has served three terms in the Senate, held a campaign war chest of $64,229 as of her most recent filing in June. Terri LeGrand, a Democrat who retired as former associate director of systems compliance at Wake Forest University, is mounting a challenge against Krawiec. LeGrand unsuccessfully challenged Republican Debra Conrad in House District 74 in 2018. That year, she raised and spent more than $700,000, and Gov. Roy Cooper attended her fundraiser to help bankroll her campaign. As of June 30, LeGrand had $11,755 in cash on hand.

In Guilford County, it’s the Democrats who are defending a Senate seat.

In 2018, Democrat Michael Garrett unseated Republican Trudy Wade by a mere 63 votes. But the remedial map shifts the seat about five points to the left, Flip NC finds, adding that “it now looks fairly safe for Democrats in 2020.” Still, the group rates it as one of the three most vulnerable seats for Democrats in the next election.

Garrett is going into the 2020 election with $29,418 in cash on hand.

Democrats would need to pick up six seats in the state House and five in the Senate to take control.

Republican Sebastian King, a former policy advisor for House Majority Whip Jon Hardister, is challenging Garrett.

King had raised $10,550 as of June 30.

Gladys Robinson is running unopposed in District 32.

Governor’s race and other statewide contests The 2020 election will put races for governor and other seats on the Council of State on the ballot.

Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and Holly Grange, a state representative from Wilmington, are vying for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic incumbent Roy Cooper in the governor’s race.

With Forest vacating the lieutenant governor’s office, a crowded Republican primary is shaping up that includes former US House Rep. Renee Ellmers; Andy Wells, a state senator from Catawba County; former Mt. Airy mayor Deborah Cochran; Greg Gebhardt, a National Guard major; and Mark Robinson, a Second Amendment advocate whose comments to Greensboro City Council created a viral conservative media sensation last year. Mark Johnson, currently serving as state superintendent of public education, has announced that he plans to run, along with Scott Stone, a former state representative from Mecklenburg County.

The Democratic field for lieutenant governor includes Chaz Beasley, a state senator from Charlotte; Yvonne Holley, a state representative from Raleigh; Terry Van Duyn, a state senator from Asheville; Allen Thomas, a county commissioner in Hoke County; and Bill Toole, an environmental attorney whose campaign emphasizes the climate crisis.

Democrat Josh Stein, who has served one term as attorney general, is receiving a challenge from Jim O’Neill, the Forsyth County district attorney.

With Republican Cherie Berry retiring as labor commissioner after two decades in office, three candidates are contending in the Republican primary: Pearl BurrisFloyd, a member of the UNC Board of Governors from Dallas; Josh Dobson, a state House member who represents three western counties; and Chuck Stanley of Clarendon.

The only Democrat to file for labor commissioner so far is Wake County Commissioner Jessica Holmes.

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Democrat James Taylor is running unopposed in the Southeast Ward. Republican Robert Clark is running unopposed in the West Ward.

In Forsyth County, three of the four seats in suburban District B on the Forsyth County Commission are also up for a vote. The race has drawn four Republican candidates, including the three incumbents — Dave Plyler, Gloria Whisenhunt and Richard Linville — along with newcomer Terri Mrazek.

One Democrat, Gull Riaz, has also filed in District B. In Guilford County, some county The local under-card commission and some school board seats Voters in Forsyth and Guilford counare up for re-election. Democrat Kirk ties will also have local races on the Perkins is looking to retake the District 4 ballot. Winston-Salem City Council, seat, which he lost after the Republicanwhich was scheduled on odd-numbered controlled General Assembly imposed a years, is now scheduled to coincide with new district map that made the dispresidential elections. trict more favorable for a Republican Mayor Allen Joines, a Democrat, filed candidate. Mary Beth Murphy, a middle for re-election, seeking his sixth term. school civics teacher, said she plans to file JoAnne Allen, a sharp critic of the curfor the seat on Wednesday. Republican rent council, has previously announced Alan Branson, who took the seat from that she will challenge Joines in the Perkins, has not said whether he’s runDemocratic primary. ning for re-election.

The Northeast Ward Democratic priDemocrat Macon Sullivan has filed for mary has so far drawn two candidates: the District 5 seat. Republican Jeff PhilMorticia (Tee-Tee) Parmon and Keith lips hasn’t filed yet, but will likely seek reKing. Tee-Tee Parmon is the daughelection considering that he was recently ter of the late Earline chosen by his colleagues Parmon, a state senator. to chair the commission Local races such as for the next year.

King, who owns Kingz Downtown Market, Democrat James seats on city counpreviously ran an unsucUpchurch has filed for cil as well as the cessful campaign for the the District 6 seat, which seat as an unaffiliated is currently represented mayoral seat are candidate. Mayor Pro

by Republican Hank up for grabs in WS, Tem Vivian Burke, also Henning, who has not a Democrat and the announced whether he while in Guilford representative of the plans to seek re-election.

Ward since 1977, has not County, seats on the Democrat Skip Alston announced whether she so far faces no opposition county commission in District 8. will seek re-election.

Kismet Loftin-Bell, a Three candidates have and school board professor, consultant and filed for Guilford County will be on the ballot School Board. Republitrainer, is challenging incumbent Annette Scippio in 2020. can Pat Tillman is runin the Democratic primaning unopposed so far ry for the East Ward. in District 3. Democrat Mackenzie Cates Allen is challenging Michelle Bardsley has filed for District John Larson in the Democratic primary 5, which is currently represented by for the South Ward.

Darlene Garrett. Democrat Betty Jean With Dan Besse’s retirement to run Jenkins has filed for District 7, which is for state House leaving a vacancy in represented by Byron Gladden. Garrett the Southwest Ward, Democrat Scott and Gladden, who are also Democrats, Andree Bowen, an associate pastor at have not indicated whether they plan to Christ Community Church, is the only seek reelection. candidate to file so far.

Democrat DD Adams is so far running unopposed in the North Ward. Likewise, Democrat Jeff Macintosh is running unopposed in the Northwest Ward, and

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With Johnson angling for the lieutenant governor’s job, four Democrats have filed for superintendent of public instruction: Jen Mangrum, a former professor at UNCG who unsuccessfully challenged Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger in 2018; Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board member James Barrett; political and education consultant Constance Lav Johnson; and Michael Maher, an assistant professor at St. Augustine’s University and former teacher in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

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Democrats moving in on Tillis’ Senate seat, new Congressional district Since the opening date for candidate filings just over a week ago, several Democrats have filed to run for Republican Thom Tillis’ Senate seat.

Tillis looking vulnerable The run for Tillis’ seat comes at a time when the senator — who has held one of the two Republican-held Senate seats since 2015 — is looking vulnerable.

Despite voting with Donald Trump’s positions 92 percent of the time according to FiveThirtyEight, Tillis is listed as one of the most vulnerable Republican senators going into the 2020 election.

The website, along with Politico, Roll Call, Inside Elections and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, all rate the race as a toss-up while the Cook Political Report has the race leaning Republican. Tillis’ vulnerability stems from his reluctance to lend vocal support to some of Trump’s more controversial policies, most notably, his emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border. After initially stating that he wouldn’t support the wall, Tillis reversed his opinion, voting in favor of the measure just one week later.

So far, five Democrats and one Republican have filed to run for Tillis’ Senate seat. Republican Garland Tucker announced that he was dropping his primary challenge against Tillis on Dec. 2, stating in an article by Politico that “he would need an additional $2.5 million to finish the primary race and could not continue funding the campaign personally at the same level.”

Given the newly drawn 6th congressional district, which favors Democrats now, several news reports indicate that Rep. Mark Walker may be considering a run against Tillis for the congressional seat.

Walker, who has represented the district since 2015, is an aggressive Trump supporter, voting with the president 93.5 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight. Walker previously supported the NC General Assembly’s the anti-transgender bathroom bill in 2016, opposed the Affordable Care Act and was one of only 33 Republican representatives who voted against stopgap federal funding in the wake of Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Walker may also be considering challenging neighboring more-conservative districts such as Republican Patrick McHenry’s 10th District or Ted Budd’s 13th District.

“I feel no pressure to rush such an important decision,” Walker was quoted as saying in The Hill on Dec. 4. On Mon-

day, possibly in response to reports that Federal Election Commission, CunWalker may be filing for his seat, Tillis ningham has raised $1.7 million for his told reporters that he’s “very confident” Senate race thus far and has $1.1 million that he’ll win any Republican primary cash on hand. In comparison, Tillis has he may be in. raised $7.7 million and has $4.9 million Unless Walker files to run, Sandy in cash on hand.

Smith will be the only Republican to run During his 2014 campaign against against Tillis on the Republican side.

Hagan, Tillis won after raising $11 Smith who hails from Winterville, has million despite Hagan having raised a no political background and describes whopping $24.8 million. Since Tucker’s herself as “pro-Trump” on her camdecision to drop out from the race, Tillis paign website. In addition to supportand Cunningham have raised the most ing the president, Smith’s website also money for the 2020 campaign. A poll describes her as a supporter of tax cuts, conducted by Public Policy Polling from gun rights, stricter policies for immigraSeptember showed Cunningham leading tion and as pro-life. According to the Tillis by two points, 45-43 percent.

Federal Election Commission, Smith has State senator Erica Smith is also no raised $265,001 so far and has $66,471 stranger to politics. She has represented cash on hand. the District 3 in the eastern part of the Tillis has held the position since 2015, state, which includes Beaufort, Martin, when he won against Bertie and NorthampDemocrat Kay Hagan ton counties, since by about 1.5 percent.

2015. In the past year, Tillis is consistently The election made Smith sponsored 27 headlines at the time for listed as one of the bills including a bill to its highly contentious adopt the Equal Rights most vulnerable Remanner and its recordAmendment as well setting spending by out- publican senators, as a bill to establish a side groups. According redistricting giving Democrats, and citizens to the Sunlight Founcommission. dation, a nonpartisan According to the Fedpossibly, Mark Walker, nonprofit that advocates eral Election Commisan opportunity to take sion, Smith has raised for open government, the candidates and out- his seat. $133,801 — about a side organizations spent tenth of Cunningham’s a total of $108 million, total — for her cammaking it the most expensive campaign paign and has $55,681 cash on hand. in Senate history.

According to her website, Smith is On the Democrat side, Trevor Fuller prioritizing economic expansion, envifrom Charlotte, Steven Swenson from ronmental stewardship, education equity Bunnlevel, Cal Cunningham and Atul and healthcare.

Goel — both from Raleigh — and Erica Trevor Fuller is a former chair of the Smith from Gaston have all filed to run.

Mecklenburg county commissioners and While Swenson and Goel are pohas raised $31,598 for his campaign so litical newcomers, Fuller, Cunningham far. According to a report in the Charlotte and Smith all have prior experience in Observer, Fuller supports early childhood government. education, sensible immigration reform, By far the most watched candidate higher minimum wage and improveis Cunningham, who is running for the ments to the Affordable Care Act. Senate for the second time. Born in Winston-Salem and raised in Lexington, The battle for the new 6th ConCunningham was elected to the state gressional District Senate in 2000, representing District The approval of the new congres23. In 2010, Cunningham filed to run sional maps for the 2020 congressional for the US Senate against Richard Burr elections by judges on Dec. 2 sets up and lost in the primary runoff election to a battle for the new 6th Congressional Elaine Marshall, who was ultimately deDistrict, which includes all of Guilford feated by Burr. According to his website, County and most of Forsyth County, Cunningham has prioritized affordable including Winston-Salem. The new healthcare, education, climate change, map gives Democrats two additional gun violence and immigration as some seats across the state and the new district of his key platforms. According to the favors Democratic candidates. According

to an article in The Hill, the old district gave Trump 56 percent of the vote in 2016, but under the newly drawn lines, Hillary Clinton would have won the district by a 20-percent margin.

Currently, the 6th District is represented by Republican Mark Walker but as of the writing of this article, Walker has not yet filed to run in the newly drawn up district.

Among the field of Democrats is Kathy Manning, who lost against Ted Budd for the 13th congressional district seat in 2018.

Despite her loss just one year ago, Manning managed to close the gap as the Democratic nominee during her run in 2018. Now Manning is running in the newly drawn district which is more urban and thus more progressive than the district for which she ran last year, giving her, as well as other Democrats, an edge against Republican opponents.

According to the Federal Election Commission, Manning has raised $51,615.

Her campaign website cites her past experience working for several nonprofit organizations in Greensboro and her support for the new Tanger Performing Arts Center. For her platform, she lists good-paying jobs, affordable and accessible healthcare, and education and training for workers.

Two other Democrats besides Manning — Bruce Davis and Derwin — have either filed to run or stated that they will run in the new 6th District.

Davis, a High Point native and former three-term Guilford County commissioner has run unsuccessful campaigns for the state’s 6th District in 2014 and the 13th District in 2016. In 2016, he was the Democratic nominee, losing eventually to Republican nominee Ted Budd by 13 points.

Derwin Montgomery, who currently represents state House District 72 on the north side of Winston-Salem, expressed his intent to run for the congressional seat on Facebook. In a post on Dec. 5, Montgomery stated that he will take his experience as a state lawmaker to bring change as a congressman.

“I have been an active and effective representative for my constituents,” Montgomery wrote in his post. “Listening to people, working across differences, standing up for what is right, and creating lasting change have been hallmarks of my leadership. I will do the same in Congress.”

The war abroad, and the one at home

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“The Afghanistan Papers,” the Washington Post’s three-year investigation finding that US officials consistently lied to the public about the failure of America’s longest war, is dropping on the same week that the US House is introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump.

These two phenomena are more conby Jordan Green nected than one might think.

To be clear, Trump is being impeached because he attempted to subvert US foreign policy in Ukraine to extort assistance from a foreign head of state to smear a political opponent, not because of his role as commander in chief in the Afghanistan war. But the partisan hatred — with each side embracing mutually excluWIKI COMMONS The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit leads sive narratives — exposed by the impeachment process is surely others to a security position, Nov. 25, 2001 connected in some way to the imperial overreach that gave us an aimless war fought by a tiny and often alienated warrior class. No information in my hands. At first, they just kept asking: ‘But who one knows why we’re in Afghanistan or how to get out, and in the are the bad guys, who are they?’” absence of a shared national purpose, we’ve turned our fury on The development aid, which peaked under President Obama, each other. was dispensed with little strategy or accountability. According to The United States government has wasted blood and treasure the investigation, one unidentified contractor reported that he in Afghanistan, for nothing. It took scarcely six months to chase was expected to distribute $3 million daily for projects in a single al-Qaida — the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack — out of AfghaniAfghan district roughly the size of a US county. stan, but three successive administrations, from Bush to Obama, US military personnel felt contempt for their Afghan counterand now Trump have continued to wage war. The Taliban, stronger parts. than ever, is just waiting for the United States to pull out before The Post investigation said one unidentified US soldier said they reclaim control.

Special Forces teams “hated” the Afghan police whom they According to the Post’s six-part series, the United States trained, calling them “awful — the bottom of the barrel in the has spent between $934 billion and $978 billion on the war in country that is already at the bottom of the barrel.” A US military Afghanistan, not counting the CIA’s classified budget and the officer estimated that a third of the police recruits were “drug admoney spent by the Department of Veterans dicts or Taliban,” while another “called them ‘stealAffairs, which cares for wounded veterans. The ing fools’ who looted so much fuel from the US expenditures include more than $133 billion in bases that they smelled perpetually of gasoline.” development funds — more than the United States The United States With the largest military in the world by far, it “spent, adjusted for inflation, to revive the whole of government has seems that the United States needs an endless Western Europe with the Marshall Plan after World war to justify the exorbitant spending on weapons wasted blood War II.” development and maintenance of foreign bases The war has cost the lives of 2,300 US military and treasure in that keeps the enterprise going. personnel and 3,814 US contractors, not to menWar fought for no purpose, sacrifice without Afghanistan, for tion 64,124 Afghan security forces and 43,074 discernible benefit, often portends a blowback of Afghan civilians. disillusionment and betrayal. And so perhaps we nothing.

The Post investigation is largely based on a trove shouldn’t be surprised that Americans increasingly of documents from a secret government study by view one another as enemies, based on party affilithe Office of the Special Inspector General for Afation and political identification. ghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, which interviewed hundreds The legacy of the war for Afghans is another story for someone of US officials and allies. else to tell, but we should also be mindful of what it means for the The study found that those planning and fighting the war have US service members who are navigating their return to civilian life. been unclear on the mission of the war and even who they were If our civic culture seems extreme today, the hangover from war fighting. has often produced extremism.

“What were we actually doing in that country?” an unidentified As Kathleen Belew writes in her 2018 book Bring the War Home: US official said in a government interview, according to the Post.

The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, Louis “What are our objectives? Nation-building? Women’s rights? It was Beam, a Vietnam war veteran and Ku Klux Klan leader made the never fully clear in our own minds what the established goals and connection explicit in a collection published in 1983 called Essays timelines were.” of a Klansman.

Likewise, the Post quotes an unnamed former adviser to the “When he exhorted readers to ‘bring it on home,’ he meant a Army Special Forces as telling a government interviewer in 2017: literal extension of military-style combat into civilian space,” Belew “They thought I was going to come to them with a map to show writes. “He referred to two wars: the one he had had fought in them where the good guys and the bad guys live. It took several Vietnam and the white revolution he hoped to wage in the United conversations for them to understand that I did not have that States.”

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Thanksgiving: The North Carolina fers in a hundred years — or, at least, a Division of the Sons of Confederate single North Carolina chapter. The IRS Veterans filed a lawsuit against the website lists 112 organizations going by UNC System, on behalf of Silent Sam, Sons of Confederate Veterans in this and before the business day ended state, each with its own tax-exempt the UNC System offered a settlement EIN. of roughly $2.5 million, and the statue Let’s be clear: This is not a settleitself. ment. It’s an endowment — enough to Perhaps the UNC Board of Goverenshrine this monument to a shameful nors, members of which spent months past in perpetuity, fund legal battles brokering this deal to fight the removal of before the lawsuit other, similar tributes to was even filed, never our inhumanity, maybe The board has no considered the optics even get the guys some of such an act. But how interest in brand-new matching could that be? Surely jackets. dismantling the these fine minds beFrom a distance, it hind the state’s citadels looks like the UNC Confederacy. It of higher learning have Board of Governors looks like they the collective ability to has no interest in think a couple clicks dismantling misguided, want to fund it. out. romantic notions about Maybe they don’t the Confederacy and fully understand what they’ve done, North Carolina’s role in it. Quite the which is go against the policies and opposite, in fact. From here, it looks spirit of the universities they represent like they want to fund it. by making a secret deal with a whiteThe board meets on Friday, during supremacist, political fringe group. which they must vote on the minutes And not only did they hand over the of the meeting where the Silent Sam statue — the very existence of which fiasco played out. is a powerful lesson on our country’s Maybe, by the time they’re done, complicated racial history — they they will have a better explanation for decided to cut a check. A really big their action. one: $2.5 million is more money than

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request more and now the company produces private company, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. The cookies come label products for a number of other concerns. in old-fashioned glazed and chocolate glazed, which “It has gone extraordinarily uncannily taste like actual well,” says Livengood. “We doughnuts. The secret trick to had no sales history and they enjoying the cookies is to microFind Dewey’s cookies at Thruway trusted us. We delivered and wave them for eight seconds, Shopping Center, 262 S. Stratford now we’re all over the country just like the original doughnut Road W-S. with 12,000 retailers.” company suggests.

Currently, Dewey’s makes Since building the plant off Reynolda Manor Shopping Center more than a dozen flavors of Kimwell Drive, it’s large enough 2876 Reynolda Road W-S. Moravian cookies, soft-baked for the company to grow for a Visit deweys.com to find retailers cookies, premium snack cracklong time. From a little shop near you. ers, cheese straws, shortbread on Fourth Street in downtown cookies, coffee cakes and sugar Winston-Salem to major retailcakes. ers across the country, Dewey’s New this year, a four-pack Doughnut Shop soft-baked Bakery is the little brand that could. cookie collection pays homage to Livengood’s former

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by Nikki Miller-Ka cardboard, mix dough, inspect packages and wield forklifts throughout the 20,000 square foot facility off Kimwell Drive in Winston-Salem.

Between this facility and the Dewey’s Bakery factory on Jonestown Road, both could produce up to 1 billion cookies a year at capacity,” says Frank Jones, production manager and tour guide for the day.

Hundreds of thousands of little nuggets of cookie dough are pressed out and dropped onto a fast-moving conveyer belt. In eight minutes, the dough becomes puffy, crispy and transforms into the cookies that grace various dining and coffee tables during the holidays each year. Then, they’re cooled down and packed into clear plastic tubs for national distribution to a grocery chain.

Making people smile since 1930, the new lines of Dewey’s products expand past traditional Moravian cookies and sugar cake at year-end holiday time. Today Dewey’s is in “over 12,000 doors,” owner and CEO Scott Livengood says. Drawing on his experience as former CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, he and his team have turned around and transformed and upped the profile of the Dewey’s Bakery brand. Locally, the Reynolda and Thruway Shopping Centers are the only retail locations, but the product is sold in stores like Walmart, Lowes Foods, Albertsons, Kroger and Wegmans. More than 12 years ago, he and his wife Michelle purchased the Winston-Salem-based brand which consisted of two retail locations and a wholesale business arm, Salem Baking Company.

Back then, the wholesale business mainly packaged and sold holiday cookies in red tins to culinary juggernaut, William-Sonoma.

“I love to make changes,” says Livengood. “We had never sold cookies year-round. Here we had these holiday cookies but before making an investment we wanted see if they had legs year-round.”

Working on the wholesale brand, Salem Baking Company, included courting national retailers and hoping one or more would take a chance on the regional brand.

“We didn’t have much brand equity and sales in that name,” says Livengood. “Once we decided we wanted to do Dewey’s Bakery, we expanded.”

The first expansion included ginger cookies and Meyer lemon cookies.

It took two years to develop, test and distribute the first brand and packaging of the new line of cookies for wholesale. The cookies had to be soft (according to the requirements of the retailer), the label had to be clean and the cookies had to have a six-month shelf-life with a guarantee of five months to the retailer. After three years, the same company went back to Dewey’s to

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CULTURE A quiet place: GSO meditation group finds solace in silence

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t’s quiet, a little too quiet.

The continuous exhales of heat from the ceiling vents create the only sounds in the back space at Scuppernong Books. On the floor, arranged in a circle, lay about a dozen black pillows where men and women, young and old, sit, their legs crossed and eyes nearly closed. Surrounding them, others sit still in chairs, also in silence, the expressions on their faces unmoving, their bodies calm and motionless, their only movement the slight rising and falling of their chests as they breathe in and out.

The Gate City Zen Meditation Group has been meeting once a week for the past decade. Every Sunday, they file into the used-books area in the back of the indie bookshop in downtown Greensboro to meditate. Shoes, jackets and purses lay in random piles outside of the space, delineating the area beyond the curtains as a space of tranquility removed from the rest of the cacophonous world.

“It’s about riding the thin line between thoughts, sensations and emotion,” says co-founder Denise Gabriel, who has been practicing meditation since 1983.

When she first moved to the city in 2009, she established a sitting group in the house she was renting on Mendenhall Street. When Scuppernong opened a few years later, she, along with Sarah and Gregory Krive, moved the gatherings into the bookstore.

The group’s practice is grounded in a branch of meditation called Zen meditation, or zazen, which literally translates to seated meditation. Drawing from the Zen Buddhist tradition, the practice involves being seated, with a focus on posture, says Sarah Krive.

“You want to make your body a threepointed stool,” she explains. “You sit with a natural curve of your spine and you keep your eyes open with a soft gaze on the floor.”

Practitioners’ hands are folded and rest lightly in front of their bellies in what Krive calls a mudra gesture; then they just sit.

“You’re not supposed to stop your thoughts,” says Gregory Krive. “You’re supposed to watch them wash up and don’t judge them. Kind of like watching waves wash up on a beach.”

Gregory, who has been practicing on and off since he was a child, says medi-

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tation appeals to many people during times of transition. fluid nature of the practice. Like physical or even talk therapy, “They come when something in their life is causing them meditation can be a temporary tool for those facing hardship pain,” he says. “Whether it’s divorce or some type of glitch in at a particular time in their lives, and once they overcome their career.” their obstacles, they may stop coming for a while. Others In decades past, churches would have been the place many make meditation a constant practice. would go in times of need, but Gregory says that these days, “I had tried it on my own, but I couldn’t get into it,” says the population of people who consider themselves spiritual Linda Hensley, who has been attending the meditation circle but not religious is growing. And that’s where meditation fits for five years. “But in this group, 30 minutes feels like five minin. utes. You can feel the depth of relaxation and spirituality.”

“It can be very healing to sit in sangha or community,” says Hensley says she initially decided to try meditation after her Sarah, who began practicing meditation in 2000. She was husband passed away and she was searching for comfort in at a time in her life where she felt anxious in her career as a community. When her husband was alive, she had attended a teacher.

Christian church but after his passing, “I could talk about fear and anxiety she said she didn’t feel like a part of and [the teacher] just held it,” says the church.

Learn more about the Gate City Sarah, who now teaches at UNCG. “I “For me personally, I find that befelt supported.” ing in a group helps more than being Zen Meditation Group on FaceSarah explains that she sees how by myself,” she says. “It’s therapeutic book. They meet weekly at Scupanxious her students are, especially in terms of life. It gives me a sense of pernong Books in Greensboro on her students of color and those who well-being.”

Sundays at 9 a.m. identify as LGBTQ+, and wishes there As the members of the group sit were more meditation resources peacefully in the back of the bookavailable to them on campus. Gregstore, the streets outside begin to ory, also a professor at UNCG, says bustle with activity. Cars drive past some of students’ anxieties may stem from increasing student and couples and families walk to and fro on the sidewalks, debt and the cost of higher education. ready to enter shops and start crossing items off of Christmas Their group is open to all individuals regardless of experilists. It’s a hectic time of year, but within these walls, time ence or religious background. seems to stand still.

On a recent Sunday morning, about a dozen people congre“You get a break from being human for an hour,” Gregory gate at their weekly meeting. Most tend to be older than colsays. lege kids, but Gregory says that attendance shifts due to the

CULTURE Handel’s Messiah, a refrain that bears repeating

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The chorus and orchestra of the Mozart Club of Winston-Salem perform Handel’s Messiah for the 87th year.

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tenor Mason Taylor stands from his seat at the front of the generations of members. Like in Allbritten’s case, students stage and sings out, joined by tenor Jacob Wright in a short find themselves in the roles their teachers once held. Parents work titled “O Death, Where is Thy Sting?” The two soloists and grandparents vacate their spots in the chorus or orchesbelt their notes together, light tones grounded by Wright’s tra, only for their children or grandchildren to take their place. deeper voice. The two soloists harAllbritten recalls meeting a permonize in one of the few duets in former during one year’s rehearsals Learn more about the Mozart Club the show. This marks the third time who inherited the sheet music of Taylor takes the stage with his title.

Messiah from a family member who of Winston-Salem’s performances “You’re being a part of something once returned to the Mozart Club of Messiah at wsmessiah.org. bigger than yourself,” Taylor says. each year. Flipping through the pages, Taylor, along with the other soloists he found name after name in the all at one point have learned from margins, signatures from every new James Allbritten, general director of the Piedmont Opera and conductor who walked on stage to lead the group. conductor for this and past year’s events. Allbritten himself “I found Tom Dunn’s signature,” Allbritten says. “And I took up the role after tutelage from Tom Dunn, who guided signed right under his.” the Mozart Club’s events in the 1960s.

“It would tickle him to no end to know I’ve been doing this for so long,” he says.

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ighty-seven years ago, the Mozart Club of Winston-Salem first undertook the challenge of George Frederic Handel’s Messiah.

A small group raised their voices and instruments for the first third of the classical work, famously dubbed “The Christmas Portion.”

Now, the Mozart Club fills the stage of RJ Reynolds Auditorium in rows upon rows of seats. An expert orchestra and extensive chorus, along with four soloists, bring the full three-part, two-and-a-half-hour oratorio to life.

The performance continues to be one of the longest-running musical traditions in Winston-Salem, connecting almost a century of artists to one other.

Nancy Ann Harris Greenfield and her husband, Alfred Greenfield oversaw Messiah for decades, seeing the piece through about 70 years of presentations until Nancy’s passing in 2006. The Mozart Club once held other shows throughout the year, however it is now only known for their interpretations of Handel’s work.

Messiah offers several things for both the musicians and audience members who pack both floors of the auditorium.

Celebrating the Christmas season can bring the music’s religious connotation to the forefront, but many people come to the show or even offer up their voices and instruments without any connection to Christianity. Classical fans come for the piece’s place in musical canon, or the history of the work, while those who appreciate local history enjoy its status as a Winston-Salem tradition.

Greg Powers, chairman of the Mozart Club, and successor to Nancy Greenfield, stands outside of the auditorium, shaking hands and greeting instrumentalists and choir members as they carry their gear from the band room to the stage or take a break from vocal warm-ups.

With 13 years of experience as chairman, Powers can recognize new faces in the crowd of musicians, and name those who return year after year.

Keeping the tradition, Powers believes, requires a bit of change every so often. Through new conductors and interpretations, changing out soloists and the general rotation of chorus members, each year feels different enough to keep it familiar, yet fresh.

“It’s alive,” Powers says. “It’s not just notes on a sheet of paper.”

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