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OF JAPAN HPU exhibit offers lens into bygone eras of Japan

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The lizard people It’s important to say right up front that I don’t believe in the lizard people.

That’s a conspiracy theory, by the way, adhered

by Brian Clarey to by more than 12 million Americans, according to Public Policy Polling, who not only have confidence in the existence of extraterrestrial lizard people who live among us disguised as humans, but also that they rule our country.

And not just ours. The theory names several areas where the lizard people have infiltrated our planet’s history, including the Freemasons, the Illuminati and the British Royal Family. Mark Zuckerberg is probably one, so the theory goes, and Angelina Jolie almost definitely. Obama too. You can tell by their teeth, apparently.

Because they supposedly rule the US government, reptilians abound in American politics. Both George Bush and Al Gore are on the list — there’s a website, naturally — as is Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton, Joe Lieberman (tagged as “high ranking”), Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and probably a bunch of others, as the site looks like it

hasn’t been updated since 2002.

Some of them are born this way; others “invited the control and bodily takeover of Reptilians through blood drinking and rituals,” according to the definitive site.

And, apparently, all this lore checks out in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which I have not bothered to check out.

Because I don’t believe in the lizard people.

And yet….

It fits a narrative, does it not? How else to explain our vast national sense of disenfranchisement, the callousness of people who have power towards those who do not, those weird, pointy teeth and cold, slimy smiles you see sometimes on TV? Mitch McConnell? Lizard man. Nancy Pelosi? She’s lizard, too. Rachel Maddow?

Kelly Ripa? The entire morning crew at “Fox & Friends”? Lizard, lizard, lizard. And have you seen that photo of Trump, with his weird hair blown back and his peculiar orange face mask revealed? That’s lizard stuff.

And you can’t prove there aren’t lizard people, which is good enough for some.

But not me. I don’t believe in the lizard people. Really, I don’t.

Really.

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The dilemma — like I told you before — it’s not the same Greensboro that it used to be. So, to say I’ll have officers out walking the beat in every neighborhood, honestly I can’t promise you that.

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CITY LIFE Feb. 13-16, 2020

by Rachael Spinella

THURSDAY Feb. 13 Up Front

Tim Shropshire Comedy Special @ the Comedy Zone (GSO) 7:30 p.m.

Art Gallery Reception @ High Point University Darrell E. Sechrest Art Gallery (HP) 4 p.m.

High Point University’s art gallery will be hosting an exhibition of Morton Huber’s collection of ukiyo-e prints as well as Huber’s photographs of Japan, taken during his visits in the 1960s and ’70s. The collection of prints and photographs together provide viewers a lens into what daily life in Japan looked like during different eras.

The exhibit will run from Feb. 13-27. Find the event on Facebook.

National Archery in School’s state tournament @ 414 Deacon Blvd (W-S) 8 a.m.

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Murder Mystery @ Foothills Brewery (W-S) 6 p.m.

Comedian Tim Shropshire from Fayetteville will be performing his stand-up act this Thursday. Known for being the class clown in middle school and the practical joker during his college years, he has the gift for making people laugh. Check out this event on Facebook.

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Stonewall OUTLoud @ Guilford Green Foundation (GSO) 6 p.m.

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This local LGBTQ organization will be showing a screening of a documentary that shows “the lived experiences and resilience of everyday LGBTQ people 50 years after the 1969 Stonewall riots.” Learn about the history and the struggles the LGBTQ community has faced in this enlightening film screening. hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

Find the event on Facebook.

This Valentine’s Day, head down to this alehouse to be a part of a thrilling and mysterious game that will provide an adventure for you and your partner. Attendees will be assigned a specific character to play before the event so that they can create their own costume. One of the guests will be chosen to play the murderer and will endeavor to stay undetected and put the blame on other attendees. Find out more on the Foothills website.

The NC Wildlife Resources Commission’s National Archery returns to WinstonSalem program state tournament will occur this Saturday and Sunday in the Education Building at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. Witness as 800 students from 32 elementary, middle and high schools across the state compete for the title. The overall top three male and female individuals as well as a top-scoring team will receive awards. For more info check out the website.

Valentine’s with Em & Ty @ the Crown at the Carolina (GSO) 8 p.m.

Queen of Hearts: A Drag Show @ Wake Forest Student Union (W-S) 7 p.m.

The Wake Forest Student Union will be holding its annual drag show. You and your partner or friends can spend an evening being entertained this Valentine’s Day. Refreshments will be provided during intermission for guests. Find the event on Facebook.

Based in Greensboro, this folk/rock duo, Em and Ty combine a variety of music together from the blues to rock and soul.

Tyler discovered his love for music when he began losing his eyesight due to a degenerative retinal disease, while Emma has a “background in multi-genre vocal performance” that began at an early age with classical training. Head on down with friends to enjoy a night of good music.

Find the event on Facebook.

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John Williams: Star Wars and Beyond @ RJ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S) 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY Feb. 16

Reception and Art Talk @ Artworks Gallery (W-S) 2 p.m.

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Valentine’s Day Pairing with Camino Bakery @ Wise Man Brewing (W-S) 6 p.m.

The bakery and brewery come together to create a special pairing for the holiday.

Combine one of Camino’s baked sweet treats with one of your favorite beers for the best of both worlds. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY Feb. 15

Masquerade Ball @ The Event Center (W-S) 7 p.m.

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Adult Cooking: Date Night with MoonTide Sundries @ Greensboro Children’s Museum (GSO) 6 p.m.

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Mardi Gras 2020 with Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Big Ron Hunter @ the Ramkat (W-S) 7 p.m.

Artists Don Green and Betti Pettinati Longinotti latest artworks “New Work” and “Farmer’s Market” will be on display for the public to see. Green is a sculptor, artist and craftsman who’s worked in the Triad art community for the past 20 years.

Longinotti works in paint, glass and pencil.

If you have an interest in art, be sure to check out the gallery which will be open from the February 2 to 29th. Find the event on Facebook.

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Known for hosting their local supper club, Moontide Sundries will be helping attendees create several dishes using ingredients from local sources like the Edible Schoolyard. You and your significant other can enjoy learning how to cook a seven-course meal. Find the event on Facebook.

Nicole Zelniker Poetry Reading @ Scuppernong Books (GSO) 3 p.m.

Author of the nonfiction book Mixed, Nicole Zelniker will be reading from her debut short story The Last Dance collection. Zelniker, a recent graduate from Columbia Journalism School is an editorial researcher at the Conversation US Check out the event if you have a love for poetry.

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Gas Hill Drinking Room is hosting a Mardi Gras celebration. This event will have a mask-making workshop that adults and kids can enjoy creating their own mask.

Guests will also be able to get a taste of the Big Easy’s Creole cuisine as Taste of Creole Concessions will be providing specialized New Orleans cooking — gumbo, jambalaya and beignets etc. Find the event on Facebook.

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Still looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day date for you and your partner? Men of Omega Social Club are hosting a masked ball for couples, groups and singles. The event will provide dinner, open bar, music and door prizes as well as raffles to be won. You can purchase tickets online on Eventbrite.

In celebration of composer John Williams — known for his iconic music that has been featured in cinematic films series such as the entire Indiana Jones series, the first three Harry Potter films and Star Wars series — this orchestra named the WinstonSalem Symphony will be performing a concert dedicated to the legendary songwriter. Grab your lightsabers and wandsand to listen to this band’s breathtaking music in honor of the musical genius. For more information go to the website.

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Parasite and the Oscars

by Sayaka Matsuoka Sidewalks on Yanceyville Street

by Brian Clarey I noticed it last month: a rare burst of January roadwork along the stretch of Yanceyville Street that I drive almost every day. Except the orange cones and work trucks seemed clustered at the periphery of the street, and after a few days it became clear that Yanceyville Street, one of the busiest pedestrian thoroughfares in the city, was finally getting sidewalks.

I have been writing about this for years — ever since I moved to the neighborhood in 2003, and shortly thereafter almost ran over a pedestrian clinging to the fringe of the road, bereft as it was of sidewalks — and, it should be noted, crosswalks, pedestrian signals or enticements of any kind to that simplest and most affordable mode of transportation: shoe leather. And yet there are plenty of bus stops along Yanceyville, and well-worn paths in the roadside dirt between low-income housing developments and the strip mall with the taqueria, budget grocery, laundromat and furniture-rental place behind a pockmarked parking lot. Over the years I have seen perhaps four dozen young mothers pushing strollers along the curbside gutters of Yanceyville Street, at least a hundred children and an old man who used to cross by Cone Boulevard every day in an excruciatingly slow motorized wheelchair — until he got hit by a car, revealed to me in one of the police reports that get sent to my inbox every day.

I’ve almost hit people a score of times — you might be amazed how many people walk too close to traffic wearing black clothing. And every time, my heart pounding and my hands gripping the wheel a little tighter, I lament the gross lack of sidewalks on Yanceyville.

But hey! Here come the sidewalks, starting near Revolution Mill and, so far, running all the way north to Cone, filling in many of the pedestrian gaps I clocked back in 2015, for a longform cover piece.

I’m not taking credit, mind you — emphasis on the Yanceyville pedestrian corridor has much more to do with the large sums of money being dumped upon the mills down that way than it does one angry man with a weekly column and an axe to grind.

I’m just happy for the upgrade, and that my neighbors won’t be taking their lives into their hands when they go to the laundromat.

It finally happened.

For the first time in the 92 years since the Oscars began, a foreign-language film took home the top prize of Best Picture at this year’s awards ceremony.

Parasite, a dark comedy thriller by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho cleaned up at the Oscars on Sunday night, taking home four awards (the last Parasite won four Academy Wards last OSCARS. time any single person won that many GO.COM week. awards was Walt Disney in 1954) includwere foreign-language works: Parasite and ing Best Directing, Best International The Farewell, which, in my opinion, was Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. snubbed during the Oscars this year.

And of course, Best Picture.

The lack of visibility of foreign films is The win was what hopefully will be a also inseparable from the larger issues of watershed moment for all future Oscars to representation at these awards shows. In come.

2015, culture writer and academic April During his Golden Globes speech (he Reign created the now-viral hashtag #Oshad won in the Best Foreign Film catcarsSoWhite and with a few exceptions in egory), Joon-ho spoke about not only the the last few years, it’s mostly held up. This importance of culturally diverse films, but year, when only one black actor — Cynthia the casual willingness by many Americans Erivo — was even nominated, the criticism to write off media from other countries. resurfaced.

“Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall All of the actors that won awards this barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced year were white. No women were nomito so many more amazing films,” Joon-ho nated for Best Director. said.

We can and must do better.

It’s true. So many wonderful films go unnoticed by both the Academy and the One notable win for diversity at this broader viewing audience because of the year’s Oscars was “Hair Love,” which won “language barrier.”

Best Animated Short. The piece, which is People have become so used to Westonly about six minutes long, follows the ern — and, specifically, American — media story of a black father figuring out how to as the default in the world. style his young daughter’s hair. Directed by But films like Roma — which won several Matthew A. Cherry, and co-produced with accolades last year and was nominated for, Karen Rupert Toliver, the two made it clear but did not win Best Picture — and this how much the win meant not only to them, year’s Parasite, are proof that films outside but to the larger black community. of our cultural understanding can cross language boundaries and are more than “’Hair Love’ was done because we worthy of being recognized for the valuwanted to see more representation in able works of art that they are. animation, we wanted to normalize black “I grew up watching foreign-language hair,” Cherry said. films and learning so much from them,” Roma director Alfonso Cuarón said during You can watch the entire short on his acceptance speech last year. “Films Youtube. like Citizen Kane, Jaws, Rashomon, The As of 2018, 31 percent of the academy Godfather and Breathless.” was women while only 16 were people Foreign directors have been studying of color.

And despite being a part of the and watching American films for decades voting block, academy members are not because they have thus far been held as required to watch the films they vote for. the industry standard. Directors like Martin Which means, much of the time, memScorcese, who was nominated for his direcbers vote on buzz and what’s doing well tion of The Irishman this year, have held in the box office. That part is up to us as the old guard for what seems like forever. moviegoers.

Don’t get me wrong, Scorcese is a national This year’s win by Parasite is huge. But treasure. But maybe it’s time that we learn let’s not let become complacent and defiand hold up directors from other countries nitely not let it be the last. as well.

The world is much too vast.

Two of my favorite films from 2019

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The sunny incumbent and gloomy challenger: A fact-check on the Winston-Salem mayoral race

by Jordan Green It’s hard to reconcile the data cited by incumbent Allen Joines and challenger JoAnne Allen on employment, housing and a host of other metrics on Winston-Salem’s wellbeing.

cities since 2007, the year before the Great Recession, and since 2000, to grade the city over the past two decades under Allen Joines’ leadership.

Allen Joines and JoAnne Allen, the Allen Joines cited three primary accomplishtwo candidates in Winston-Salem’s ments in his opening statement during the forum, Democratic mayoral primary, often seem bragging, “We’ve made great progress in this to describe two different cities. city reducing poverty, reducing homelessness, An incumbent who has led Winstoncreating jobs in our community.”

Salem for the past 18 years, Allen Joines While Winston-Salem has shown some tells a story of progress and optimism, progress in reducing poverty in recent describing a city that has made signifiyears, the picture isn’t particularly bright cant strides in creating jobs and reduccompared to other North Carolina ing poverty, while promising ambitious cities. Among the five largest cities and action to promote growth and help the neighboring High Point, Winston-Salem poor. started with the highest poverty level in “So, I’m as excited today to run as I 2010. And while poverty began to level was when I ran several years ago,” Allen off in other cities around 2013, it didn’t Joines said during a candidate forum peak in Winston-Salem until 2015. And hosted by a consortium of local civic while the poverty rate dropped from groups at the Central Library on Jan. 27.

24.8 percent to 23.3 percent in Winston“This is a challenging set of objectives Salem from 2015 to 2017, Raleigh, and platform that I laid out there, but Charlotte, Durham and High Point all with your help and my skills and my past showed the same trends. (Greensboro’s record, we can and will get it done.” poverty rate, anomalously, began to tick The municipal narrative rendered by back up in 2015, after falling in 2013.) challenger JoAnne Allen, a vocal critic In a follow-up conversation with Triad of city government, describes a city that City Beat, Allen Joines cited Andrea has fallen behind because of ineffective Kurtz, the senior director of Housing leadership, darkly hinting at sinister moStrategies at United Way of Forsyth tives by self-serving elites.

County, as his source for information on “If you don’t understand government trends in homelessness in the city. Kurtz — civics 101 — how in turn referred TCB to can you fix it?” JoAnne a United Way website, Allen asked. “If we which indicates that the don’t have a group of number of chronically individuals that’s makhomeless individuals ing policy for the good declined from 39 in ‘I’m as excited today and the welfare of the July 2017 to 13 in April to run as I was when I 2019. people, we end up right back where we started: “Chronically homeran several years ago.’ right here at the beginless” is the narrow– Mayor Allen Joines ning. And this is why est definition of the our city have not done condition, and “focuses — don’t let all the new on persons with the buildings downtown longest histories of and all that fool you. homelessness and the Buildings are just buildhighest need,” accordings. That doesn’t help people.” ing to the final rule adopted by the US The two candidates will face each Department of Housing & Urban Develother in the March 3 Democratic priopment, as published in the Federal Regmary (early voting begins on Thursday). ister in 2015. HUD defines “chronically Triad City Beat is fact-checking the claims homeless” as an individual of head of by the two candidates that undergird the family “with a disability who lives either premises of their respective campaigns, in a place not meant for human habitawhile gauging Winston-Salem’s perfortion, a safe haven, or in an emergency mance relative to other North Carolina shelter, or in an institutional care facil-

Mayor Allen Joines has led Winston-Salem for the past 18 years.

ity” who has been homeless continuously for at least 12 months, or at least four separate occasions in the last three years where the combined occasions total 12 months.

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools uses a broader definition in its count of students experiencing homelessness. The district is required by federal law to track homelessness among students and to provide support for their families. The law defines homelessness for a student as lacking “a fixed, regular and adequate residence.” The number of homeless students dropped from 604 in 2014-15 to 534 in 2015-16, but then leapt up to 711 in 2016-17, according to data provided by the district. The number has plateaued in the 710s over the past three years. More than half of the homeless students — 452 — are doubled up with extended family members, according to the district. Another 150 are living in shelters, including transitional housing, or awaiting foster care. The district reported that 86 live in hotels or motels. And seven are reported as unsheltered — that is, sleeping in cars,

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parks or other substandard accommodations.

As to Allen Joines’ claim that the city has made “great progress” in “creating jobs in our community,” employment growth in Winston-Salem does compare favorably to Greensboro and High Point, but it’s nowhere near the super-charged growth in Raleigh, Charlotte and, to a lesser extent, Durham. Data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Winston-Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area — including Forsyth, Yadkin, Davie and Davidson counties — shows non-farm employment growth of 2.0 percent since 2007, and 2.2 percent since 2000, compared to the Greensboro-High Point MSA, where employment has declined by 3.4 percent since 2007, and by 2.6 percent since 2000. That contrasts with the Raleigh-Cary MSA (44.0 percent since 2007, 22.4 percent since 2000), the Charlotte-Rock Hill-Gastonia MSA (29.6 percent since 2007, 22.4 percent since 2000) and the DurhamChapel Hill MSA (23.3 percent since 2007, 12.7 percent since 2000).

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tion has grown relative to other states, and is expected to gain an additional congressional seat after the 2020 election. And as measured by growth in GDP, North Carolina’s position remains largely unchanged since 2000.

North Carolina’s population has grown by 10.0 percent since 2010, moving from the No. 10 rank to No. 9, close behind Georgia, while Michigan JoAnne Allen slipped form also provided some No. 8 to No. 10, devastating statistics reflective of the on poverty: “From ‘If we don’t have a group of contraction of the 2001 to 2008, auto industry in we improved as far individuals that’s making polthat state. as poverty here in As measured icy for the good and the welWinston-Salem, by annual gross almost 60 percent. fare of the people, we end up domestic product, We went from 26 North Carolina right back where we started: percent poverty level is the 12th largest to over 76 percent by right here at the beginning.’ economy in the 2008.”

– JoAnne Allen country, a status It’s not clear that has remained what JoAnne Alunchanged since len means when 2000. Steady she says that economic growth poverty “imin the mid-2000s proved” in Winston-Salem by 60 percent allowed North Carolina to claim the from 2001 to 2008, but her statistics on No. 9 spot in 2008, when it overtook the poverty rates in those years are way Michigan. Since the 2007 peak, just off. Based on numbers gleaned from the before the onset of the Great Recession, 2000 Census, 14.4 percent of individuals North Carolina’s economy has grown by in Winston-Salem were poor, while 19.1 42.2 percent, similar to Georgia, while percent of the population was poor in

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JoAnne Allen told voters in her opening statement that she and her husband decided to retire in Winston-Salem, where her family has lived since 1897. Hinting that something isn’t right, she said her decision was motivated by a desire to “see why Winston-Salem and the whole state is so far behind.”

While JoAnne Allen’s statement doesn’t quantify how far behind Winston-Salem is, it implies that it’s a significant gap. But is Winston-Salem actually lagging behind other North Carolina cities?

By population and growth in gross domestic product in the MSA of which Winston-Salem is a part, the city has fallen behind, largely due to brisk growth in Durham. Durham surpassed WinstonSalem in population in 2013 to become the state’s fourth largest city, according to data published by the US Census Bureau in the American Community Survey.

Winston-Salem is now the fifth largest city in the state, but as measured

by GDP, the Winston-Salem MSA has held the rank of fifth largest economy in the state since at least 2000. Growth of GDP in the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA, meanwhile, allowed it to supplant the Greensboro-High Point MSA as the third largest economy in the state in 2005.

And is North Carolina actually lagging other states?

Not really. North Carolina’s popula-

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While portraying Winston-Salem under his leadership as mayor of a city with bright prospects and forward momentum, Allen Joines is also pledging ambitious action on a number of initiatives that relate to reducing poverty and increasing opportunities for upward mobility.

“You may have seen that I was able to raise pilot funds to pay for a free college program,” Allen Joines said. “Every kid who graduates from high school here in Forsyth County can go to Forsyth Tech free of charge — tuition fees, books, childcare transportation, whatever might be needed.”

Allen Joines’ involvement in the initiative, which was announced in November, came about through his position as president of the Winston-Salem Alliance, a nonprofit whose mission is assisting “with identifying and responding to needed changes in the economic makeup of the Winston-Salem community by acting on projects that have a direct impact on the creation of jobs and the economic vitality of the area.”

It’s not clear what, if anything, his position as mayor has to do with the private fundraising to pay for low-income students graduating from WinstonSalem/Forsyth County Schools to attend Forsyth Tech free of charge. As Allen Joines alluded, the $870,000 scholarship fund was created through a grant from BB&T Corp.

A press release issued by WinstonSalem/Forsyth County School noted that the Winston-Salem Alliance “helped establish the program,” and Allen Joines attended the press conference, along with Councilwoman DD Adams, Superintendent Angela Pringle Hairston and school board Chair Malishai Woodbury, but other than that there’s no clear connection between the program and Allen Joines’ position as mayor.

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Challenger JoAnne Allen has been a vocal critic of city government.

JoAnne Allen responded the question about the most important issues facing Winston-Salem by issuing a litany of areas where she contends the city is falling short, starting with unemployment.

“The most important issue is the fact that, first of all we don’t have any jobs,” JoAnne Allen said.

That’s facially untrue. Clearly, even the most economically challenged cities have some jobs. The most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that there were 322,228 people employed in the Winston-Salem MSA, as of December 2019, the most recent report available, while the same report found that 10,855 people in the MSA, or 3.2 percent of the labor force, are unemployed. In addition to WinstonSalem and Forsyth County, the MSA also includes Stokes, Yadkin, Davie and Davidson counties, so it’s not just counting jobs in Winston-Salem, but it captures the commuting universe that most Winston-Salem residents inhabit.

Just as some jobs in Winston-Salem are held by people who live in surrounding counties, it’s also true that Winston-Salem residents commute to other counties for work.

2008. JoAnne Allen’s figures might reference a 2014 story in the Winston-Salem Journal, which reported that 76 percent of poor people in Winston-Salem lived neighborhoods with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent in 2008-2012. That’s a different figure, which shows how poverty is concentrated in certain areas as opposed to being evenly distributed across the city. To further complicate matters, the Brookings Institute study cited by the Journal reports a different figure: 41 percent. So, 76 percent isn’t correct, either for the 2008 poverty rate, or for the percentage of people living in neighborhoods with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent in 2008.

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less robust than California, Texas, New York and Massachusetts but more briskly than Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Florida. Throughout the recession and recovery period, North Carolina has swapped places with Georgia, Massachusetts and Virginia, but fast-growing Washington State has been the true star in the pack.

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Two former High Point city council members will duke it out in the Republican primary and then face a Democratic political newcomer in the race for the District 6 seat on Guilford County Commission left vacant by Hank Henning.

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From left to right: Jason Ewing, James Upchurch and Jim Davis, who vie for the District 6 seat on the Guilford County Commission.

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having those relationships is beneficial to get things done.”

The winner of the Republican primary will face political newcomer James Upchurch in November.

Upchurch who has worked in the public education system, said that he was similarly drawn to the race because of education.

“I saw firsthand how our schools weren’t being funded,” Upchurch said.

“So I started going to school board meetings, city council, the county commissioners. We didn’t have textbooks; we didn’t have school safety.”

Upchurch taught at Ragsdale High School from 2017 to 2018 and then at Smith High School from 2018 to 2019.

He said that he was there the day Smith went into lockdown because of a suspected school shooter.

“Nothing happened but it could have been really bad,” he said. “That was kind of the final straw for me.”

He said school safety, including increasing safety features like buzzer systems and cameras, is at the top of his list if he gets elected to the seat.

As for the $1.5 billion facilities need, Upchurch echoed his Republican counterparts and said that he would support a sales-tax increase over a property-tax increase to pay for the bond debt.

“I don’t want to raise taxes but sometimes that’s what we have to do,” Upchurch said.

Still, he said that he would look for ways to cut costs and find ways to “spend money more efficiently” if elected.

“I went to school for business,” Upchurch said. “I believe in fiscal responsibility. I know the issues because I have been through them.”

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that he understands that the resolution is merely symbolic and doesn’t have the power to enact any change to local legislation.

“I understand you got to send that message,” Ewing said. “I’m certainly in support of the Second Amendment but sometimes, adopting resolutions or measures that don’t really carry any power can be counterproductive. If there was any concern that the Second Amendment was under attack at any level, then the more counties that could show support for it, the better it would be.”

Both candidates pointed to their years of experience as city council members as evidence of working across the aisle with Democratic colleagues.

“I’ve never had an issue with working with people across the aisle,” Davis said.

“You can look back at my record on city council. I supported issues that were good for the public.”

Ewing echoed Davis’ statement.

“I learned early on that there’s nothing Republican or Democrat about water, sewer, public services or infrastructure,” he said. “I worked closely with Democratic peers to get things done.

Our nation has gotten so clouded now and there’s so much focus on what this part of this party is doing rather than getting things done.”

The candidates both mentioned their time on city council and forming relationships as the reason why they should win the seat.

“I just feel like I have the experience and the knowledge and willpower to do it and I look forward to serving,” Davis said.

“I developed good working relationships with people at the local, state and federal level,” Ewing said. “I think that

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opment,” Ewing said. “I’m focused on bringing new businesses here. But to do that, you’ve got to make sure you have strong schools and strong infrastructure in place, and be welcoming to the businesses.”

Ewing points to the success the city has had in using incentive packages to convince companies to build their businesses in the city.

Davis also mentioned the importance of infrastructure when it comes to needs at the sheriff’s department or having more nurses in schools. He also mentioned his concerns about the opioid crisis and how it affects residents in the district as well as countywide.

Ewing brought up the importance of creating more affordable housing as well as access to affordable transportation to ensure that businesses looking for employees and citizens looking for jobs can connect.

“We’ve got a huge workforce housing shortage,” Ewing said. “We’ve got to find a way to work with the city, transportation, work with PART and get more workforce housing so we can get these people to jobs where employees are looking for workers.”

Davis and Ewing also differed slightly in their opinions about the Forsyth County Commission’s recent decision to pass a resolution in support of the Second Amendment.

“I would be in favor of it,” Davis said if the possibility of a similar resolution came to the Guilford County board.

“I grew up on a farm. I’ve hunted and fished my whole life. I had a private shooting range. I support the Second Amendment.”

Ewing on the other hand, said that while he supports the right to bear arms,

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Jim Davis served as a High Point City Council member from 2012 to 2017 and even filled in as mayor for three months in 2014, after Bernita Sims resigned.

Similarly, Jason Ewing served on High Point City Council from 2013 to 2019, losing his seat to Michael Holmes by just a handful of votes. Both Davis and Ewing will duke it out in the Republican primary come March 3, and one will go on to face Democrat James Upchurch in the general election.

Both Davis and Ewing said in interviews that education is at the top of their list of concerns for the district if they were to win the seat.

“I know this bond issue for the schools is going to hit us front and center,” said Davis of the recent $1.5 billion need for Guilford County schools’ facilities.

“I don’t know how the county commissioners is going to pay for it. It’s going to have to be some sort of tax. I am not an advocate for property taxes because our county has one of the highest property taxes in the country.”

Similarly, Ewing also mentioned that he would be in favor of a sales-tax increase over a property-tax increase if it came down to a decision between the two to pay for a potential bond.

“Property-tax increases are hard to sell because people who don’t have kids in the system don’t understand the correlation between property taxes and education,” said Ewing who has worked as a realtor for years. “We’ve got to the show the impact that having strong schools has on our community.”

In addition to improving the county’s education system, both candidates talked about a range of other concerns facing the district.

Ewing talked at length about economic development and how his experience as a city council member as well as his time on the board of the High Point Economic Development Corp. makes him a strong candidate for leading High Point in the right direction for future growth.

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A woman near the front of the large hall at the Barber Park Events Center rises to address the new police chief.

“I want to know: Are y’all going to walk the beat like you used to?” she asks.

Maria Hicks-Few, the city of Greensboro’s chief equity and inclusion officer, reiterates the question.

“Just to be clear, she said, ‘Are y’all gonna walk the beat like you used to?’” Hicks-Few says.

It’s roughly the third time the question has come up in the past

hour.

Brian James, who was sworn in as the city’s 23rd police chief, on Jan. 31, politely acknowledges the call, and then gently lets her down.

“The dilemma — like I told you before — it’s not the same Greensboro that it used to be,” he says. “So, to say I’ll have officers out walking the beat in every neighborhood, honestly I can’t promise you that.”

There’s a nostalgic tinge in many of the questions from this crowd assembled on Tuesday evening for the first of eight community meetings with the new chief. The turnout — about 50 residents, not counting a handful of uniformed officers and at-large Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter — skews African American, middle class and retired. Mostly, they want a more visible police presence in their neighborhoods to counteract an array of nuisances and, in some cases, serious violence. Some of them complain that young people are not as respectful as they once were, and that neighbors have become, well, less neighborly.

James, who grew up in Greensboro, notes that the city has grown, and he says the number of officers has not increased commensurately, making it difficult to maintain the JORDAN GREEN Greensboro police Chief Brian James. visibility to which some older residents are accustomed. He might also have added that the low-density, suburban development pattern that has prevailed over the past 75 years has created a dependency on cars that undermines community policing.

A young man raises his hand, and tells the chief he’s a student at NC A&T University, Earlier in the forum, another woman has told the chief that she stands in yard and but he lives near UNCG. He says he sees a heavy police presence around A&T, but not so watches police cars race past. much around UNCG. “How do we get the police to slow down and say hi?” she asks.

“Sometimes they are shouting, and sometimes they are not wearing While making the caveat that the officers might have been on their enough clothes,” the student says of his neighbors. “Sometimes they’re ‘The dilemma — like I way to respond to a call, James acknowledges some validity to the running up and down the street. Generally being relatively disruptive, woman’s concern. told you before — it’s not but at 1, 2 and 3 in the morning.”

“But I would like the officers when they have the opportunity to park At first, there seems to be some confusion about which neighborthe same Greensboro the car on the curb and maybe get out and speak to people,” the chief hood the student is describing. says, “because I think it helps us a lot and makes you feel like maybe “Yes, I’m saying there is more aggressive and heavier police presthat it used to be. So, to you can talk to us.” ence by where I go to school, which is A&T, but not where I live, which say I’ll have officers out The chief also reminds residents that community visibility and is by UNCG,” he says. “And I would like to know why.” responsiveness are tradeoffs.

This is a narrative the chief does not seem eager to validate, and he walking the beat in every “First and foremost, we’ve got to answer the calls,” he says. “When hedges by saying he will need more information, while suggesting the neighborhood, honestly I student talk one-on-one with one of his officers to drill down to the somebody calls 911, you want somebody there in a reasonable amount of time. Because that might be the worst day of your life, and you want can’t promise you that.’ specifics. us to be there to help with whatever the situation is. So, I’ve got to “I just can’t give you an answer on the spot, because when you say figure out: How can I make sure I have enough people to answer those – Greensboro police Chief there are more police, I have to know what more means,” James says. calls quickly, but then also have enough people to go out in the comBrian James “Or more aggressive policing — you have to describe to me what agmunities and build a relationship?” gressive is to you, okay?”

An elderly Dudley Heights resident complains about groups of Dudley High School students “roaming” the neighborhood and breakCommunity meetings with Chief Brian James begin at 6:30 and run to 8 p.m.: ing into houses. She wants to know if the police can stop them. · Thursday: Lindley Recreation Center, 2907 Springwood Drive Short of observing someone doing something illegal, James cautions that it’s a bad idea · Feb. 20: Brown Recreation Center, 302 E. Vandalia St. for officers to just stop young people for walking down the street. · Feb. 25: Glenn McNairy Branch Library, 4860 Lake Jeanette Road “It really puts us in a bad way because someone could be walking down the street for · Feb. 27: Leonard Recreation Center, 6324 Ballinger Road a legitimate purpose,” he says. “I’m just trying to be as up front as I can. I can’t approach · March 5: Central Library, 219 N. Church St. someone just because they’ve got a backpack and they’re walking down the street during · March 10: Peeler Recreation Center, 1300 Sykes Ave. school hours.” · March 12: Griffin Recreation Center, 5301 Hilltop Road He adds that the highest racial disparities in police stops tend to occur in the areas with the highest crime levels, creating a tricky balancing act for a department that is trying to provide both effective and fair policing.

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It took almost an entire term, but a judicial gag order. the presidency of Donald Trump has Facts. finally transformed this country from After his conviction on seven felony a well thought out nation of laws into charges, federal sentencing guidelines an autocracy beholden to the whims of put his time at 7 to 9 years. But before one deranged, orange man. his sentencing, on Tuesday morning, One by one our institutions fall.

Trump tweeted about it, calling it “very The Supreme Court — indeed, much unfair” and a “miscarriage of justice.” of the federal judiciary — has been

By Tuesday afternoon, Attorney stocked with Trump and GOP loyalists, General Bill Barr’s Department of Juswhich these days amount to the same tice had intervened in the sentencing, thing. adjusting the guidelines Both houses of to recommend a more Since he took the Congress have been lenient sentence for unable to perform their Stone. By the end of the post, Bill Barr has functions for a decade. day, four prosecutors sounded more like had withdrawn from the The Department of Education is run by an case.

Trump’s personal ally of for-profit colleges There were other exlawyer than the at- amples of the utter hollike Trump University, the one that cost Trump lowness of the DOJ — torney general. $25 million in a classsince he took the post, action lawsuit.

Bill Barr has sounded And according to more like Trump’s perthe winning arguments, the impeachsonal lawyer than the attorney general ment process itself is unconstitutional, for the people of the United States. except for the pesky fact that it’s in the But now we are forced to acknowlConstitution. edge that yet another of our institutions But pesky facts don’t matter anyhas devolved into a farce. more. Witness the resurrection of Roger That’s life in an autocracy, which is Stone, convicted last year for witness the very thing this country and its laws tampering and obstructing Congress were created to prevent.

— which doesn’t really tell the full tale.

It’s amazing that we were able to keep Stone straight-up lied to Congress, it going so long, and also how easily we forged the documents he presented to gave it up. them, outright threatened a witness — and his dog! — and repeatedly violated

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Pomegranate cilantro lime granita with balsamic drizzle at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro

Fried oysters are the most common in the area and there’s a reason why: It’s quick, it’s easy and oysters are 100 percent more aesthetically pleasing once coated in a crispy batter. The fried-oyster appetizer at Christina Gray’s in High Point is one of the most interesting preparations in the area.

Below is a list of some of the more ambitious preparations of oysters in the Triad. The list goes beyond the boilerplate Rockerfellers, Casinos and Calabash-style options:

GSO reelseafoodgrill.com 6. Roosters: A Noble Grille, fried oyster salad with bacon balsamic dressing 7. White and Wood, raw and roasted oysters GSO thewhiteandwood.com 8. Cristina Gray’s, Fried oysters with black eyed pea succotash and garlic prawn sauce HP jhadamsinn.com/cristina-grays

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They actually use gas with wood burning fire-boxes and their meats go through a process of saucing, basting and rotation.

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very weeknight over the course of a year, I slaved over a fryer full of hot fat, frying dozens upon dozens of oysters at Roosters: A Noble’s Grille early in my culinary career.

I counted out shucked oysters soon to be plated on the house

by Nikki Miller-Ka oyster salad alongside strips of roasted red pepper, chopped hard-boiled egg and dollops of bacon-balsamic dressing. One by one, I scooped them into a bin of seasoned flour, shook off the excess with a sifter and dropped them, one at a time, into the sizzling oil. I watched as each nugget bobbed below the surface and popped up, creating a symphonious whirlpool. Watching the skirt of flour cast out and then dissipate into a translucent net of gluten around each gobbet was a calming joy amidst the tickets being yelled across the kitchen and the chaos of cooking on the line.

Oysters are not pretty to look at. Before the shell is opened, shades of burnt sienna, black and mottled green coat the outside. Once shucked, the strange, oblong-shaped gray mass looks to be something that should be discarded rather than slurped, sipped or slipped out of its shell. If you’re lucky, you may find a small calcified bit of calcium carbonate, also known as a pearl, inside your mollusk of choice.

It’s downright romantic.

It’s a common misnomer that oysters are aphrodisiacs. According to a 2017 article in Smithsonian, there is no scientific proof that oysters are an aphrodisiac. It isn’t so much about what oysters do for you, as much as how they make you feel.

The ritual of shucking and consuming oysters can be a sensual experience. Fresh oysters lie plump and turgid in the shell. Moist and soft frills give way to firm meat that brims with briny, natural juices. The scent is reminiscent of the seashore while the shell is a curvaceous, voluptuous vessel that holds the promise of a coastal treat. There’s a mystery amid the distended, juicy folds of the delicate meat that resembles feminine sensuality. It’s sexy. And delicious.

The preparation of oysters is simple yet varied. Raw, steamed, chargrilled or fried, each cooking method lends itself to releasing different qualities of the mollusk. Oysters take on the characteristics of their environment, which show up in their appearance, texture and taste profile. Just like coffee cherries or grapes pick up resonance from the land they are cultivated in, oysters are the same.

Raw is the simplest form. While there are raw bars all over the Triad, White and Wood presents a fresh take on this delicacy with cilantro, chopped Fresno chile, shallots and a squeeze of lime.

At Coast in High Point, Chef Jeremy Feder prepares a host of different oysters on the menu, but the BBQ oyster is the most unique. Lacquered with a tangy barbecue sauce tinged with a hit of liquid smoke and herbed butter, it’s grilled just until barely cooked, coagulating the protein and garnished with parsley.

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man sits on the corner of a stone displays a selection from Hufence, a thick cascade of flora ber’s collection of traditional and fauna behind him. He rests Japanese woodblock prints, or his left hand on one of the posts ukiyo-e, that he collected durfor balance while gently holding his ing his travels. fiancée’s hand in his right.

While his career was in He looks at the photographer with a chemistry, Huber developed reserved smile and kind eyes. His fiancée a passion for visual art. He turns and looks over her right shoulder, painted watercolors frequentrevealing a slight, mischievous smile. ly and dabbled in black-andThey seem a bit caught off guard, like white photography in his they were interrupted in the middle of spare time. an intimate conversation or a quiet moAnd though he first went to ment.

Japan for a teaching position A wooden pagoda-shaped lamppost in chemistry and environhovers over them protectively. mental science at Kanazawa “My first time in Japan was 1962,” says Institute of Technology, the Morton Huber during a talk at the Seexhibit displays Huber’s deep chrest Gallery at High Point University. “I fascination and adoration of had met my wife during her last year of his new home. university. She was Japanese and going Next to the photograph back to Japan, and I thought I would go of Huber and Kyoko hangs a with her. While I was there, I visited her colorful woodblock print of and her family many times. We were two lovers taking a walk in the married at the embassy in Tokyo.” snow. The print, which dates Huber looks different now than in the from 1762 and is by Suzuki black-and-white photo in the corner.

Harunobu, similarly portrays He’s older; decades have taken a natural a couple caught in an intimate toll on his body. He uses a walker to moment as they stroll caremove around, but his mind and memory fully over newly fallen snow, a are as keen as ever. paper parasol protecting them “I went thinking I was gonna learn from the elements.

MORTON HUBER “Relaxing on a Summer Evening,” a photo by Morton Huber as part of High Point University’s Reflections of Japan exhibit. about Japanese artists,” Huber says of Emily Gerhold, director of his 1962 trip. “I had read enough about the art gallery and an assisimage. In the far back corner, a lone farmer bends down, his or Japan to expect a lot of the things I saw. tant art history professor at High Point University, says the her face obstructed by a familiar wide-brim hat.

I immediately liked the people, liked the show attempts to meld the two differing mediums by groupDespite being from vastly different time periods, in some food.” ing them by subject matter. cases, almost two or three hundred years apart, both Huber’s The gallery is filled with Huber’s di“We loved the idea of showcasing the photographs and the photographs and the woodblock prints act as a kind of time ary of his life in Japan. The close to two prints together,” Gerhold says. “When I looked at [his] phomachine into the bygone eras of Japan. The prints depict quiet decades that he spent in the country tographs, his aesthetic really seems to be influenced by these images of fishing villages and manual labor, while Huber’s during the ’60s and ’70s have been capreally traditional images of everyday Japanese life. We thought photographs echo similar imagery of rocky coasts and lone tured on film and displayed throughout that showcasing the photographs would add an even richer boats on the water. Others depict monks at Buddhist and the space in context, that the images would conShinto shrines and old-school dollmakers and woodblock a new exhibit textualize each other.” carvers in their studios. Combined, the exhibit isn’t necessarily titled ReflecOn an opposite wall, a woodblock meant to show the history of the country so much as servReflections of Japan will be on tions of Japan: print with spots of red against muted ing as a window into one man’s viewpoint of a country that Photographs green and blue tones forms a group display through Feb. 27. A recepwelcomed him many years ago. The last time he visited Japan

by Dr. Morton of workers in a rice paddy.

They bend tion with Huber takes place at the was in 2003, Huber says.

W. Huber down carefully, faces covered by Sechrest Gallery of Art on Thursday “I miss the people and the work I was doing,” Huber says as ith Prints of wide, straw hats that shield them he walks around the gallery. “I’d like to go back and start it all at 4 p.m.

“The Floatfrom the pouring rain as they harvest over again.” ing World.” the grain, their ankles shin-deep in The only the water. A large, looming mounphotograph tain anchors the background. Next Correction: not taken by to the woodblock print by Utagawa In our piece about Charles Bess last week, we stated Huber himself is the portrait of him and Hiroshige, a contemporary of Hokusai, is a black-and-white that the photo with Bess behind the counter was taken his fiancée Kyoko. The others are a love photo by Huber. on Feb. 1, 1960. The photo was actually taken on Feb. 2, letter to a country with which he still His focuses on recently shorn tufts of rice, the once-tall 1960 on the second day of the sit-ins. feels deeply connected. grain cut short and jagged — most likely with a sickle. The In addition to the dozens of blackrows of shortened crop appear at an angle and light bounces and-white photos by Huber, the exhibit off the surface of the water, creating pockets of white on the

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by Rachel Spinella ense, green clumps of moss covers the rectangular canvas, an abundant assembly of greenery, clustered tightly together with a deep-blue, acrylic path weaving down the middle of the piece, like a river. This tropical landscape is titled “The Amazon,” and gives observers a bird’s eye view of the largest rainforest in Brazil.

Just in front of the moss-covered artwork, sporting a pair of rectangular shaped lenses, stands Mona King — an artist and a graduate from UNCG’s Interior Architecture program. “The Amazon” is just one of a variety of artwork created with different media and resources found in the environment.

“I grew up with a house full of plants and flowers,” King says. “My mother had a green thumb. We had this one section of the living room that was just filled with plants from floor to ceiling.

We weren’t supposed to be in the living room as it was only for guests, but that’s where you would go when you wanted to feel good or warm. As it just kind of enveloped you.

“Nature has a way of connecting the human spirit to make us feel safe and comfortable,” she concludes.

Each moss collage has not only this RACHEL SPINELLA flowerless greenery, but a mixture of “Solace of Nature” by Mona King is a mixed-medium piece utiliziung live moss as well as acrylics. other plants as well. In one landscape, King uses bamboo and scabiosa — a world and our climate. This may be something you won’t see glimpses of the large, framed artwork depicting tones of light lilac-colored flower native to Africa, 10 years from now, because there won’t be any trees.

Again, and dark green chunks of moss bundled together. One woman Europe and Asia — to create a jungle I’m thinking about what’s now happening to Australia, Caliin the group wearing a small winter hat on her head stare at image. fornia and climates around the world.” the landscape intensely, drawn to the mix of green moss and “Somebody wrote me a letter askGesturing towards the piece again, King speaks further on oceanic blues in the bottom left of the frame. ing why I am taking all the moss, as it’s the piece and its importance.

“I just hope people have an open mind to different types natural,” she says. “Mine is sustainably “The rainforest is like a lung that cleans the air,” she says, of art,” King says. “Everybody thinks the traditional painting, harvested and usually not from the “and that it is actually a breathing system that is from the sketching or drawing — this is different because it combines all United States. So, they make sure that if trees. People don’t realize that. those elements but it’s kind of combination of photography, they are removing the moss that it does “It purifies, it cleanses the air and provides moisture into the sculptor, collage and imagination. If you look at a picture and have the ability to grow back. So, I have atmosphere,” she contiues.

“And as we destroy more trees, see a beach, other people may see other things.” to use multiple sources from all over the we’re losing that.”

Turning her head to the sound of voices coming from a man world.”

On the other side of the room, two more and a woman enGazing up at the images splayed on two canvases hang side tering the exhibit, overhead architectural by side.

Both works feature a photograph of she says, “I hope model-like image, she Mona King’s the base of a tree mixed with brown leaves, that they see the talks about the subtle exhibit will be on twigs, stones and green moss in the backvalue and that it messages that can be ground.

It looks as though the objects in the will calm you —and display at Revolution seen in her works. photograph are breaking out of the canvas that it will have a Mill through March 13.

“I have a member and into the real world. long-lasting value, of an advisory team Learn more at “It’s kind of like when you’re in a theater then just I need to and he came into one livingaura.design. performance, and there’s 20 things going on put something on of my first showings and you can’t see which way to look,” King the wall.” and he says, ‘I love says. “There’s always something different. what you’re doing, but I don’t want it to be one big, green mass of your work also has to relay a message moss or one stick or leaf. I want you to be able to explore and to people,’” she says. “I created the one find something different.” that is a tribute to the Amazon to bring Three visitors enter the exhibit, pausing mid-step to catch awareness of what’s going on in our

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