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Halloween on Old Long Island by Brian Clarey
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Halloween kind of snuck up on us this year. By that I mean to say that we forgot to buy candy, and by the time we realized it we knew that the stores had been picked clean of everything but probably some Smarties and white chocolate. So rather than subject the neighborhood kids to sub-par treats, we decided to go dark. Lights out. No cars in the driveway. The pumpkin stored inside to prevent resentful smashing. If Halloween in my neighborhood is anything like it was in the one I grew up in, I see some time in my driveway with a hose and some eggshells in my future. We’re holed up at my sister’s house in Greensboro’s Latham Park neighborhood, with a bathtub full of candy and, thus far, a thin trickle of trick-or-treaters coming through. My sister remembers the holiday in our hometown on Long Island. Things were… different. “It was like legalized assault,” my sister says. “People would cover you in shaving cream. They’d steal your candy. And our parents would be like, ‘Whelp, that’s the way it goes on Halloween!’” On Halloween night, regardless of the day upon which it fell, our neighborhood hosted dozens of roaming packs of children — after about 5 p.m. there was not an adult in sight. After dark a sort of suburban Lord of the Flies thing went down on our streets, with clashes involving fireworks, shaving cream and eggs. I myself began carrying shaving cream — to defend myself, I told my parents when I asked them to buy me some — when I was 9 years old. The eggs I had to swipe from the fridge. With us tonight are my teenage sons, the oldest of which, judging by his noncommittal posture on the couch, can’t even. The younger, With us tonight are my teen14, marks his very first Halage sons, the oldest of which, loween without judging by his noncommittal a costumed trip posture on the couch, can’t through the neighborhoods by even. manning the front door and handing out increasingly larger handfuls of candy. My sister really bought too much, which is fine by me. It’s not that he doesn’t want to go out, the younger says. But his squad had a weekend full of action, and none of them, it turns out, are interested in getting in on the street game. When my sister and I regale him with tales from Halloweens of Old Long Island, he looks horrified. Turns out the kid has never thrown an egg in his life. “Is it fun?” he asks. I do not answer. Not right away. “Not as much fun as this,” I lie.
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CITY LIFE October 5 – 11 ALL WEEKEND
by Naari Honor
Staged flow-reading @ NC A&T University (GSO), 7 p.m.
Día de los Muertos celebration @
Greensboro Public Library (GSO)
The Day of the Dead is upon us and the Greensboro Public Library and LeBauer Park have a weekend of events planned to educate, celebrate and showcase the beautiful Mexican tradition that has a rich history and involves more than just vibrant costumes and artistically decorated sugar skulls. For more information about the two-day event visit casaazulgreensboro.org/ events-calendar/.
Resisting Arrest Poems to Stretch the Sky, a poetry anthology about violence against African Americans, comes to the stage of North Carolina’s A&T University. Editor Tony Medina describes the work, which includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, as, “songs of love” versus a “catalogue of despair.” For more information, contact Richard Krawiec at jacarpess@gmail.com, 919.810.2863 or jacarpress.com/resisting-arrest/.
FRIDAY WEDNESDAY
Public input session @ City Hall (WS), 6 p.m. In 1766, Moravian pioneers cultivated the piece of land that sits on Second Street across from Shady Boulevard in the Holly Avenue neighborhood of Winston Salem. The parks department wants to create a passive park out of this vacant piece of land. Join Councilman Jeff MacIntosh and staff in an open meeting to gauge public opinion about initial plans for the new Second Street Park.
Skate park construction @ Glenwood Recreation Center, (GSO), 3 p.m. Grab your decks, Greensboro is getting into the skate-park business. The Glenwood Skate Park is just one of two planned skateboard and BMX bike facilities the city has in the works and they are inviting you to celebrate the start of construction the 4,000-square foot facility. For more information visit greensboro-nc.gov.
THURSDAY
Jose Vargas @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 5 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Vargas, who founded Define America, speaks at Pugh Auditorium in the Benson University Center as part of the university’s Journeys to Success speaker series. Vargas, whose work revolves around redefining the American identity, uses his multimedia platform to discuss race, immigration and the intricacies of multiculturalism. For more information, visit college.wfu. edu/aes/news/journey-to-success-speaker-series-jose-antonio-vargas/.
Soccer @ Bryan Park (GSO), 5:15 p.m.
Bryan Park is expanding its reach to include a soccer park and not just a measly playing space for a pick-up game. Greensboro Parks and Recreation and the Greensboro United Soccer Association are teaming up to create 18 regulation-size soccer fields. Join the ceremonial celebratory festivities with a few scrumptious refreshments to mark the moment. More information at greensboro-nc.gov.
Movie night @ International Civil Rights Center & Museum (GSO), 6:30 p.m.
It’s First Friday movie night at the civil rights museum and in preparation for the arrival of a new exhibit, Mass Incarceration, the museum hosts a viewing of Slavery by Another Name, followed by the Netflix documentary 13th. For more information, visit the civil rights museum’s Facebook page.
Kids first Saturdays @ Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market (GSO), 10 a.m.
The ECO Bus comes to the farmer’s market to teach the little ones about healthy foods with a coloring scavenger hunt led by Beth McKinney of Spears YMCA. Five dollars in “kid’s coins” will be given to children enrolled in Guilford County’s free or reduced lunch program’s to be used at the market after a hard day’s work of food hunting. Attendees are asked to preregister by contacting gfmassistant@gmail.com or visiting the manager’s desk during store hours. More information can be found at gsofarmersmarket.org/ kids-first-saturday/.
Opus performance @ Page High School (GSO), 7:30 p.m.
The indoor classical series Opus comes to Page, featuring conductor Evan Feldman. Visit greensboro-nc. gov for more information.
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Ever thought of indulging in the woody taste of a rosemary popsicle? Guest Chef Steve Terrill visits the Farmer’s Curb Market to hold a free cooking demonstration and tasting of three special prepared rosemary-flavored dishes in the Harvest Learning Café. Here’s your chance to partake of dishes infused with rosemary in ways the herb has rarely been used before. For more information, visit gsofarmersmarket.org.
A child of Greensboro, dueling hippie parents and a father supposedly abducted by aliens, Sarah McSweeny appears at Scuppernong to read from her collection of essays, Tell Me If You’re Lying, which recounts the emotional tales of her colorful life. For more information, visit scuppernongbooks.com/event.
Herb tasting @ Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market (GSO), 8:30 a.m.
Sarah McSweeney @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 3 p.m.
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5. “Holy Rollers Rockin’ in a Killing Machine” by Bodeco Bodeco is an outlier on this list of otherwise punk-influenced groups with a hillbilly blues sound that would have found more of a home in the Americana scene that took hold in the latter half of the decade. But for sheer strangeness and raw aggression, the Louisville band matched its more avant-garde peers in the punk scene ounce for ounce with primitive drumming, demented Bo Diddley-influenced guitar riffs and howling vocals. This title aptly captures the song, which is like an over-the-top Quentin Tarantino movie, mashing up ecstatic religion and muscle cars.
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3. “Car Crash Decisions” by Crain Louisville, Ky. had an incredibly fertile music scene in the early ’90s, and though I was a fervent booster at the time, the perspective of the intervening two decades and
4. “The Boat Dreams From the Hill” by Jawbreaker I know this is a favorite of Jeff Laughlin, a former Triad City Beat sports columnist, as well, and of all the music I listened to before I hit 20 this has probably aged the best. Jawbreaker’s basic template is pop punk, but it’s a grimier variety with a surprisingly poetic sense of lyricism. Blake Schwarzenbach’s raspy vocals give a sense of what it would sound like for Jack Kerouac to sub for Billie Joe Armstrong in Green Day. The songs on their 1994 album 24 Hour Revenge Therapy — again, I’m citing the lead track in a collection that’s uniformly excellent — sound both groggy and bracing, as if someone has been woken at 7 a.m. and forced at gunpoint to belt out Black Flag lyrics in front of an audience of people who are all hungover.
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2. “Crying Jag” by Tilt The music of Tilt defines a brief, four-month sojourn in San Francisco, where I landed as an 18-year-old at the end of a cross-country Greyhound bus trip from Kentucky. I saw the band at a club called Bottom of the Hill in 1993, and immediately fell under the spell of their catchy, emotive punk assault. “Crying Jag,” the lead track from Play Cell is as good a representative as any, but truthfully every song on the album kills. In retrospect, I fell so hard for this band because they synthesized elements from groups that I loved from a previous period — the hoarse, soul-baring vocals of the Avengers, the smart, stuttering bassline from Operation Ivy and the overall grit of X.
experience living in other cities has reinforced to me just how unique it was. “Car Crash Decisions” from Crain’s 1992 album Speed is a great place to start, with a throttling bass groove, intricate rhythms that abruptly change times and vocals that are by turns stoic and angry. The song and the album represent for me a stylistic transition, from hardcore, as exemplified by the metal-tinged Kinghorse, to the math-rock banner carried forward by bands like Rodan.
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1. “Feels Blind” by Bikini Kill The ’90s is kind of a lost decade for me, spanning my crucial period from 15 to 25. Starting as a punker, I slipped off the track pretty early and embracing ska, then fell hard for George Jones before cycling through rockabilly, alt-country and singer-songwriters before eventually landing on the music of the Band. A recent music reporting assignment made me think about the early ’90s riot grrrl movement, sending me down the YouTube rabbit hole. The exercise forced me to reassess the music that came out of the ’90s. Riot grrrl in particular was innovative, turning the testosterone-fueled punk scene on its head with feminist fury. Bikini Kill, fronted by Kathleen Hanna who went on to found Le Tigre, exemplifies the genre. “Feels Blind,” with a menacing guitar riff building under Hanna’s feverish vocals, still sounds great 25 years later. Incidentally, it leads Side B of the excellent Kill Rock Stars compilation, and all 14 tracks are interesting and amazing in one way or another.
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by Naari Honor I often find that the places that draw me in don’t have to necessarily put a lot of effort into purposely wooing me. More often than not, getting treated as an “old friend” who hasn’t been seen in a while is what seduces me into frequenting a particular establishment. That’s what happened to me when I stumbled across Heyday Guitars one night while on assignment in Winston-Salem. I was at a coffee shop within walking distance of the Burke Street guitar shop and I noticed several people hanging around outside. While I was unsure what type of establishment had drawn the small crowd, I was hell-bent on exploring the source of activity and occasional sounds of live guitar playing. I made a mental note to check out what was going on after I’d handled my business. An hour or so later, my kid and I floated over to the rocking establishment to quench my inquisitive nature. I soon found out that the name of the place was Heyday Guitars. Heyday, a vintage guitar and amp resale store, offers onsite guitar repair, specializes in the unique and obscure of the music world and occasionally holds a guitar workshop for the community. When the kid and I walked up to the doors, two guys were sitting over to the left of the entrance welcoming us with huge smiles on their faces that made me rack my brain to recall if I had met them before. They waved us in and gave us these smiling nods like they had been expecting our arrival all night long. At the entrance, additional visitors were standing by the door rocking out to music seeping from inside of the shop. Everyone we seemed to encounter as we walked in projected that “It’s been a while since we have seen you” vibe. When you first walk into the store you will quickly figure out that Heyday is a hodgepodge of things. Rows of beautiful vintage guitars hang along the wall, such as a 1959 Harmony Stratotone H-54, 2005 Gibson Les Paul Classic, ‘80s Tokai Custom Edition Telecaster, 1959 Gibson LG-1 and a 1967 Fender Mustang bass. There are a couple rows of benches in the middle of the floor for people to sit and visit or test out a slightly used axe. The shop doubles as a gallery, with work from local artists adorning the walls, including Kat Lamp. Throw in the retro-framed vinyl on the wall and the random pop-ups from such greats as punk rock musician Sonny Vincent and you have the makings of a living gallery that has found a way to chronicle some of the most important movements of music through original working relics.
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Jordan Green: Yes, I am ready for a taco truck on every corner. Is that an implicit endorsement of Hillary Clinton? Yes, I believe it is. And I am ready for this election to be over.
Readers: It’s not enough to call a consensus, but there’s certainly a supermajority (79 percent) that says, “Yes, please lord let this happen!” A measly 14 percent said “No — it could be too much of a good thing,” while the remaining 7 percent chose “Did somebody say tacos?”
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Brian Clarey: A taco truck on every corner might not be the sign of decay that Trump supporters claim, but it would be a bit much. I have one in my neighborhood, though (see this week’s cover story, Taco Town, beginning on page 12 for more) and I think every neighborhood and office parking lot could use one. I could seriously eat taco-truck tacos every day for a month, and probably even longer.
Eric Ginsburg: Did somebody say tacos? Can I have a burrito instead? No but seriously, every corner is ridiculous. One per neighborhood, like Brian mentioned, is much more reasonable and appetizing.
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First lady pumps Democrats in first campaign stop with Clinton by Jordan Green
As new early-voting sites opened across North Carolina on Oct. 27, First Lady Michelle Obama made her first campaign appearance with Hillary Clinton at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem. A beloved figured in the Democratic Party, especially among African-American voters — a key demographic in the Clinton campaign’s hopes to carry North Carolina — Obama took star billing during a spirited and heavily choreographed rally that drew an estimated 10,500 people. Obama closed her speech by highlighting the state’s crucial role in the election, noting that her husband carried North Carolina by only 14,000 votes in 2008, but lost it to Mitt Romney in 2012. “When you break that down the difference between winning and losing this state was a little over two votes per precinct,” Obama said of the 2008 election. “In this stadium each of you could swing an entire precinct and win this election for Hillary,” the first lady said. “You could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by not voting at all. So here’s what I’m asking you: Get out and vote. Get out and vote for Hillary. Vote early. Go right now. When you leave here, go vote.” Obama noted that the federal courts recently overturned an effort to limit early voting in North Carolina. “I want you to remember that folks marched and protested for our right to vote,” she said. “They endured beatings and jail time, and sacrificed their lives for this right.” Obama also sought to counter the effect of a steady drip of emails from Wikileaks showing that donors to the Clinton Foundation bought access to
First Lady Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton’s authenticity translator, makes the candidate’s case in Winston-Salem.
the State Department, which opponent Donald Trump has used to raise doubts about Clinton among voters. “If Hillary doesn’t win this election, that will be on us,” Obama warned. “It will be because we did not stand with her. It will be because we did not vote for her. And that is exactly what her opponent is hoping will happen. That’s the strategy — to make this election so dirty and ugly that we don’t want any part of it. So when you hear folks talking about a global conspiracy and saying that this election is rigged, understand that they are trying to get you to stay home.” While Obama urged people with reservations about Clinton’s candidacy to get off the fence, Clinton used the event to pay tribute to the first lady in hopes of cementing her relationship with black voters. Later in the day she made a surprise appearance at NC A&T University’s homecoming in Greensboro.
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In a lighter passage of her speech, Clinton talked about how much she loved watching President Obama and the first lady dance, and quipped, “It hasn’t been all hard work. She also plays a mean round of carpool karaoke.” The two women played up their shared experience as the wives of presidents — an emphasis meant to both humanize Clinton and energize voters around a pro-woman message in contrast to Trump’s continuing scandals over his statements about groping women, along with demeaning and objectifying language about them. “First ladies — we rock,” Obama said. Clinton talked about how she and Obama shared the experience of raising children in the White House. “Let’s be real: As our first African-American first lady, she’s faced pressures I never did,” Clinton said.
“She’s handled them with pure grace. She’s been an outstanding first lady who’s made all of us proud.” The event drew an all-star cast of national and local Democratic figures, both to rally support behind the party’s presidential nominee and to elect candidates further down the ballot, from US Senate candidate Deborah Ross to safe incumbents such as Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines and Councilwoman Denise D. Adams. US Reps. Alma Adams and GK Butterfield appeared with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and even civil rights leader Jesse Jackson appeared onstage, although he did not speak. A former US senator, Kay Hagan, introduced Ross. Pushing early voting, Ross noted that a recent federal court decision means voters don’t need to show ID to vote and that they can register and vote on the same day during the early-voting period. “You know why that is?” asked Ross, a former member of the state House. “Because I got that law passed in 2007.” Attempting to link her opponent, Republican incumbent Richard Burr, to his party’s presidential nominee, Ross said, “Mr. Burr has a name for me, too. He calls me ‘radical.’ I don’t think it’s radical for women to have equal pay for equal work.” Ross also used her time to urge people to vote for Michael Morgan, a candidate for state Supreme Court who is considered friendlier to the Democratic agenda in Raleigh than incumbent Bob Edmunds. Meanwhile, Clinton and Obama both plugged Ross and Roy Cooper, the Democratic candidate for governor who was a notable absence on the stage. “He will always put the people of North Carolina first,” Clinton said of Cooper, “and he will repeal HB 2 be-
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crowd while describing her experience voting at the Brown & Douglas Neighborhood Center polling place earlier in the day. “There were over a hundred people in the line, and I’m not talking about inside,” Adams said. “I’m talking about the line all the way out to the parking lot, down by the church. Young people. Old people. Black people. LGBT people.” Michelle Obama emphasized her bond with Clinton — her husband’s former rival in the 2008 election and later secretary of state — saying she, President Obama and Clinton all came from “working families.” “Hillary knows what it means to struggle for what you have and to want something better for your kids,” Obama said. She closed by alluding to the historic nature of Clinton’s candidacy, while connecting the candidate to her husband’s path-breaking rise. The United States, Obama said, is “a country where a biracial kid from Hawaii, the son of a single mother can make it to the White House, where the daughter of an orphan can break that highest and hardest glass ceiling and become president of the United States.”
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cause he knows discrimination is wrong, it’s bad for business, and it’s against North Carolina values.” Ross appeared during a recent campaign stop by President Barack Obama in Greensboro, but Cooper wasn’t there either. He also wasn’t present when Clinton campaigned at UNCG in September. Some of the sharpest attacks against Trump came from US Rep. Alma Adams, who represents the 12th Congressional District. “Bless his heart, he proposed a ‘new deal’ for black Americans,” Adams said. “If it’s anything like his deal with his contractors, he’s going to cheat us and leave the bill for us. Trump was a man who was sued by the federal government because he wouldn’t deal with African Americans, so there’s no doubt in my mind that under a President Trump the same doors of opportunity that were closed to my generation will stay closed. “I call on all the nasty women and all the bad hombres to turn out at the ballot box,” Adams added. “Vote early. Come on Winston, let’s turn this mother out.” Councilwoman Denise D. Adams, who represents the North Ward on Winston-Salem City Council, worked the
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Legal battle to outlaw segregated hospitals recognized by Jordan Green A new highway marker outside Cone Hospital commemorates a lawsuit filed by nine black physicians that resulted in a court decision striking down discrimination in hospitals across the nation. A lawsuit filed by nine black physicians and dentists, along with two patients, against what is now Cone Health led to the desegregation of hospitals across the country in 1964. Dr. George C. Simkins Jr., the black dentist and local NAACP president, had previously led a successful effort in the mid-1950s to desegregate the Gillespie Park golf course in southeast Greensboro. Less than a decade later, Simkins’ quiet assault on policies that barred blacks from practicing medicine and black patients from receiving care at the city’s two largest and most modern hospitals — which took place as students carried out mass demonstrations to desegregate lunch counters, cafeterias and theaters — has received less attention. That oversight was corrected on Tuesday with the unveiling of a new highway marker outside Cone Hospital by the state Departments of Cultural Resources that reads simply: “Simkins v. Cone: Landmark federal court of appeals decision 1963 involving Cone Hospital led to racial integration of hospitals in the US.” Prior to a federal court ruling in Simkins’ favor, Wesley Long Hospital had completely excluded black doctors and patients, while Cone required that black patients first be admitted to L. Richardson Memorial Hospital, the city’s black hospital. With the exception of “extreme emergencies,” black patients could only request transfer to Cone once they had received a physical exam and diagnostic procedures at Richardson. Another “humiliating condition” required that their black physicians discharge them first before they could receive care at the more modern white hospital. Black patients were required to make do with Richardson, which was built in 1927, while their white candidates had access to the state-of-the-art Cone Hospital, which opened in 1953. The effort to desegregate Moses Cone Memorial Hospital and Wesley Long Hospital began about two months after NC A&T College students launched the sit-ins at Woolworth’s on Feb. 1, 1960. As Jo Spivey reported at the time for the Greensboro Record, Simkins said he had written letters to administrators at Cone
Dr. Deborah Barnes, Shirley Barnes, Jeanie Simkins Hollis and Christopher Simkins admire the new marker outside Cone Hospital.
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Hospital and Wesley Long Hospital askThe case hinged on whether the ing that the patients of black physicians private hospitals’ use of federal conbe admitted to the two hospitals and struction funds made them creatures had received no response. Spivey quoted of the state, and thus subject to 14th Simkins as saying that the Greensboro Amendment guarantee of equal protecNAACP believed that “it is morally tion under the law. But the black doctors wrong and legally indefensible that sought more than the right to practice those federal funds may be constitutionmedicine and have their patients treated ally granted to these hospitals in such a at the two Greensboro hospitals; they way as to deny to one-fourth of Greensasked the courts to file an injunction boro’s population, just declaring unconstitutionbecause of race, access to al a section of the 1946 ‘I learned [in the the healing arts and the Hill-Burton Act that privileges and opportuauthorized construction Army] that men nities which these federal of hospitals with federal can work together, funds on a “separate but funds make possible.” Dr. Alvin Blount, who basis. Sponsored regardless of race, equal” is now 94, is the last by Sen. Lister Hill, a color or creed.’ surviving member of the Democrat from Alaplaintiffs group. Blount bama, and Sen. Richard – Dr. Alvin Blount served in the Korean Burton, a Republican War — an experience from Ohio, the law that would not allow him to accede to authorized a massive federal spending the indignities of segregation when he bill to subsidize a hospital construction returned to civilian life and began his boom to meet pent-up demand after the practice in Greensboro. Great Depression and World War II. “I was just coming from an instiThe US government sided with tution, the Army, which had almost Simkins and his fellow physicians, with everything you wanted to work with,” then-Attorney General Robert Kenhe said in a short documentary posted nedy filing a friend-of-the-court brief on YouTube by Cone Health in Sepon behalf of the plaintiffs, but they tember. “I learned there that men can encountered a setback when the District work together, regardless of race, color Court of the Middle District of North or creed.” Carolina ruled against them in Decem-
ber 1962. The court dismissed the case on the basis that they didn’t have authority to hold the hospitals to constitutional requirements because while the hospitals were clearly engaging in racial discrimination the plaintiffs hadn’t proven that they were instruments of the state. But when Simkins, Bount and their fellow physicians appealed, they received welcome support from the federal government when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy filed a friend-of-the-court brief on their behalf.. Almost a year later, on Nov. 1, 1963, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court decision in split 3-2 ruling. In contrast to the district court, the Fourth Circuit concluded that the hospitals’ acceptance of federal funds did reach the necessary “degree of state participating and involvement” to make it subject to Constitutional guarantees. “The massive use of public funds and extensive state-federal sharing in the common plan are all relevant factors,” the court ruled. “We deal here with the appropriation of millions of dollars of public monies pursuant to comprehensive governmental plans. But we emphasize that this is not merely a controversy over a sum of money. Viewed from the plaintiffs’ standpoint it is an effort by a group of citizens to escape the consequences of discrimination in a concern touching health and life itself. As the case affects the defendants it raises the question of whether they may escape constitutional responsibilities for the equal treatment of citizens, arising from participating in a joint federal and state program allocating aid to hospital facilities throughout the state.” Addressing the sham of the “separate but equal” doctrine, which had already been struck down by the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board decision, the court cited a report by the North Carolina Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The report found that medical facilities available to non-whites in the state were both more limited and inferior to those open to whites. The ruling also cited a finding by the committee that segregated medical facilities were at least partially responsible for the infant mortality rate for African Americans being double that of whites, while black women died giving childbirth at a rate five times their white counterparts.
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hospital’s medical and dental staff, to talk about the struggle to desegregate healthcare in Greensboro. “If you would allow me, I really consider it an honor — and an overdue honor,” Akin told Blount, “I’d like to say on behalf of Cone Health to you, on behalf of your colleagues, on behalf of the citizens, who were denied access for that period of time, I would like to apologize on behalf of Cone Health for the segregation and the discrimination that you experienced.” Blount responded slowly and deliberately. “With deepest appreciation for your efforts to apologize,” he said, “it’s accepted for the fact that for always we’ll be together.” Akin reiterated his apology on Tuesday, and announced that Cone Health has committed $250,000 in seed money for an annual scholarship fund. “We know there’s more work to be done,” he said. “In the coming months and years we will continue to challenge ourselves and each other to become an organization that mirrors the communities we serve and that achieves equal health outcomes for all of those for whom we are privileged to care.”
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Cone Hospital had received $1.3 million and Wesley Long Hospital had received $1.9 million from the federal government, covering about 15 percent of total construction expenses, with most of the funds being disbursed after the Brown v. Board decision. A so-called “Non-Discrimination Report” filed by the NC Medical Care Commission in 1962 to account for the federal funds spelled out what segregation meant: Richardson had 91 acceptable beds for non-white patients, while the two facilities largely off limits to blacks — Cone Hospital and Wesley Long Hospital — had 482 beds and 220 beds respectively. The legal victory resulted in Cone Hospital inviting four black physicians to join its medical staff in late 1963. Months later, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear an appeal made the Fourth Circuit opinion the law of the land, effectively ending segregation by hospitals. The Civil Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in July 1964, further confirmed the decision by making it illegal for private organizations to discriminate in public accommodations. Earlier this year, Dr. Blount sat down with Cone Health CEO Terry Akin and Dr. James Wyatt, the president of the
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James Comey: Ticket-splitter in chief?
With the GOP campaign floundering It’s true that most of the key positions at Triad City Beat are held and every Demoby white males. But among the ofay, there exists a generational rift cratic surrogate from spanning three turns of the cycle. President Obama to We’ve got a genuine Baby Boomer in the advertising department, Will Farrell blanketing and a managing editor solidly entrenched in the Millennial generation. North Carolina to Three of us fall within the defined years of Generation X — which shore up the Hillary’s began in the late 1960s, after the hangover of the Sexual Revolution by Jordan Green bona fides, it seemed began to set in, and ended in 1981, right around the time the AIDS that the course was crisis set in. Or Ronald Reagan. Take your pick. set until FBI Director James Comey’s Oct. 28 GenX is overrepresented in our ranks. The generation itself is bombshell disclosure that the agency was reviewdwarfed by the sheer numbers of the Boomers, whose parents had ing additional emails that might be relevant to its the advantages of postwar intercourse and inneffective birth control theretofore concluded investigation of Clinton’s to beef up their ranks. But they’re dying off — Pew Research says emails. there were just 74.9 million left in 2015 — the Millennials overtook Let’s be clear: Based on anonymous sources them as the largest generation with 75.4 million that same year. cited by Newsweek, the New Yorker, the New And while the Boomers shrink, the Millennial generation is actually York Times and other outlets, the emails currently growing at a significant rate, according to Pew, as young immigrants under review by the FBI appear to have neither are added to its numbers. They’re scheduled to peak at 81.1 million by been sent nor received by Hillary Clinton, and 2036, when there will be fewer than 50 million Boomers. came to light from a separate investigation of GenX, by contrast, topped off at 66 million in 2015, again from former US Rep. Anthony Weiner. The disgraced Pew. It doesn’t sound like a lot until you consider that when the congressman is the estranged husband of Huma X-ers entered the workforce, they were up against nearly 80 million Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton. According Boomers and a cohort from the Silent and Greatest generations still to Newsweek, the FBI seized an electronic device plugging away. in its investigation of Weiner and discovered a Those of us in GenX have noticed, though, that unlike the personal account shared between the husband generation that made it through the Depression, when the Boomers and wife. Working under Clinton at the State ascended they just sort of hung around for an extra 20 years. Department, Abedin was responsible for printing Among its other sins — which include turning a prosperous out emails for her boss to read, and she apparmanufacturing economy into a service-based quagmire, enabling a ently had trouble with the official system and crushing dependence on fossil fuels, and also the Eagles — the Boomoften forwarded emails to her personal account to ers gummed up the works in business and in politics, only allowing the print out. Voila — candidate Clinton is suddenly GenXers a moment in the light that will barely be realized before the linked to the Anthony Weiner sex scandal. But the Millennials come roaring on. FBI’s only interest as it pertains to Clinton is likely But the Xers in our office don’t seem to mind the inevitable passing whether or not any of these emails show that she of the torch. The Millennials are the most diverse generation of forwarded classified documents. Americans yet, meaningful when contrasted with the Boomers, who All this apparently because Anthony Weiner at 75 percent are actually whiter than the rest of the country. They’re got caught sending sexually explicit texts to a community-oriented, fair-minded and comfortable with technology. 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. And they seem to have a mistrust of the institutions Boomers built There’s a lot to digest here, and the odds are and perpetuated, a perspective that will be necessary in undoing the that none of it has to do with criminal offenses damage they wrought. by Hillary Clinton. There isn’t enough space here to get into the unprecedented and troubling nature of Comey’s action and the fact that it threatens to subvert the election for the nation’s Saturday 10am – 12pm top office, but it’s also worth noting that his hand was somewhat forced by Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s folly in meeting with Bill Clinton while the original investigation was underway. ary’s Of course the FBI director’s Gourmet Diner disclosure casts a shadow over Clinton, who is already one of the 1212 Grove Street, Greensboro, NC 27403 most distrusted presidential candi336-609-6168 • glenwoodbooks.com dates in modern history. The game plan for both campaigns — from facebook.com/glenwoodbooks/
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Mike Pence urging Republicans to “come home” in Greensboro on Oct. 24 to Michelle Obama warning that the other side is trying “to make this election so dirty and ugly that we don’t want any part of it” three days later in Winston-Salem — was already all about bringing reluctant supporters back into the fold. Even the whiff of corruption could make the difference for voters who were tempted to stay home or cast a protest vote for Gary Johnson. This is an October surprise, to be sure, but they don’t work like they used to, back when Americans got most of their information from three broadcasters, and a handful of publications that set the national news agenda. There are multiple October surprises, and it’s doubtful that this one makes as strong an impression as the Republican nominee bragging about how his celebrity gives him license to grab women by the genitals. The impact of Comey’s bombshell is also somewhat defused by the fact that millions of Americans had already voted by the time it landed. But Democrats have to be worried about their chances of flipping North Carolina, with a CNN analysis showing that Republican turnout has cut into the traditional advantage Democrats historically enjoy in early voting. The biggest winner here is likely to be Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who is fighting to defend his US Senate seat. Burr, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, was quick to capitalize on the news on Oct. 28, urging that “the American people deserve to have a full accounting of Secretary Clinton’s practices and a complete picture of her actions as Secretary of State.” He added, “We should allow this to go through the complete processes, this time including all the emails on Clinton’s server.” It’s a good bet that a lot of undecided voters in North Carolina, when forced to reckon with the fact that the next president will either be a flawed but thoroughly capable leader or an erratic celebrity businessman totally lacking in self-control, will blink hard and vote for Clinton. If they can overlook the fact that the Republican-controlled Senate has held the Supreme Court hostage for months on end, they may feel a twinge of remorse and reason that a President Clinton will need a Republican majority in the Senate to keep her in check. To retain control of the Senate, Republicans need to hold North Carolina — which remains the tightest race, with Burr holding a slight advantage over Democrat Deborah Ross — and one other state, most likely Pennsylvania, Missouri or New Hampshire. For a conflicted voter, the most logical action might be to cancel out their presidential preference by splitting the ticket.
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a Saturday schedule. I’m a journalist who covered the board of elections meeting where the schedule was devised, but even I needed a refresher on whether additional sites opened after seven or 10 days. The whole point of early voting is to make it easier for people to be able to vote. It’d help to make Election Day a national holiday as well — it’s kind of ridiculous that it isn’t, actually — but there’s one small step we could take locally to avoid additional confusion. Post the damn hours and schedule outside every early voting site. We realized we were too early after I called a colleague who was able to pull up the schedule. I informed the two strangers, who seemed determined enough to vote later, and after our hike I brought my friend back to UNCG’s rec center and he voted with ease. But why not take the simple step of printing out the hours of the early-voting sites and taping them up by the doors?
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we swing by quickly before heading out of town. Standing at the entrance to the rec center, we peered into the darkened building as two women complained they’d come to vote as well and couldn’t figure out why the building was closed. I tried pulling up the early voting schedule on my phone from the Guilford County Board of Elections’ website but couldn’t get it to load. The explanation turned out to be incredibly simple — Sunday early voting didn’t begin until 11 a.m., despite the polls opening hours earlier for the preceding days. It is not that complicated to look up the early voting schedule online, so long as the website loads and you have good internet or available data and a smartphone. But with an early voting schedule with changing hours and locations, it can be a challenge to keep track of the specifics. Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan accidentally tweeted the wrong hours for
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We were confused, when we walked up to an early-voting site on Sunday and found the building by Eric Ginsburg closed. I’d voted just two days earlier at UNCG’s new gargantuan recreation center on Gate City Boulevard, picking it above the other sites because I correctly figured the line would be short and it’d be easy to get in and out from downtown Greensboro. But when I came back two days later to bring a friend who hadn’t cast his ballot yet, the doors were locked. We’d been nearby, grabbing snacks at a CVS before going on a hike at Hanging Rock, when my friend mentioned he hadn’t voted yet and wasn’t sure when he’d be able to, so I suggested
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50 places for delicious tacos in the Triad by Brian Clarey, Eric Ginsburg and Naari Honor
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he Triad wasn’t always a Taco Town. Time was that taco meant just one thing around here: a hard shell dripping with grease, topped with lettuce and cheese and, if you’re lucky, maybe a tomato.
It’s why we have so many Taco Bells. But the gringo’s favorite gave way to the more traditional style as embraced by old-school taco trucks and real-deal Mexican joints, some of which were steering away from the homogenized Tex-Mex style and building tacos the way they were meant to be: barbacoa, carne asada, al pastor, with a little onion and cilantro, and maybe a slice of radish. Then foodies got in the game, bringing kimchi, porkbelly, pulled pork and everything else into the mix, creating a scene and a taste for bougie tacos felt throughout the Triad. And now, while we don’t quite have taco trucks on every corner, whether you’re in Greensboro, WinstonSalem or High Point, you’re never too far from a taco. This user’s guide may not be exhaustive, but there’s enough taco action on here for a year’s worth of Taco Tuesdays. Tell us about your favorite taco or let us know what we missed in the comments section at triad-city-beat.com.
The tacos at Antojitos las Delicias in Winston-Salem are among the best in the Triad.
Crafted: The Art of the Taco, 219-A S. Elm St., eatatcrafted.com The flagship shop of Kris Fuller’s culinary empire, which expanded its presence to Winston-Salem last week, turns the staple on its head. Pulled pork with mac & cheese, falafel and pickles, brisket and pineapple, rare tuna and kimchi all come together in these bougie masterpieces.
within a larger menu. Here, the grilled fish taco with pickled cabbage is the pick of the litter.
Taqueria el Azteca, 5605 W. Friendly Ave., taqueriaelazteca.com Old-school and genuine, Azteca offers a basic slate of tacos at its storefront in the west and a roving truck.
Monterrey, Brassfield Shopping Center, monterrey29.com One of the last of the old guard of Greensboro’s legacy Mexican restaurants, Monterrey still serves its tacos gringo-style, with lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar and sour cream.
Pedro’s Taco Shop, 948 Walker Ave., pedrostacoshop.com Worlds collide at Pedro’s just off Tate Street: the basics of chicken, carne asada and al pastor are covered, along with fish, shrimp and a veggie option. But the best may be the Carolina BBQ taco, with pulled pork and a cilantro-lime slaw. Jake’s Billiards, 1712 Spring Garden St., Facebook page When Jakes ramped up the menu a few years ago, it brought back Taco Tuesdays with a full line of classic selections, though insiders say the shrimp taco is the best of the lot. And Ginsburg swears by the spicy chicken baja tacos. Rio Grande, 6909 Downwind Road and 1614 Highwoods Blvd., riograndemexicankitchen.com This one’s a full-on Mexican restaurant with an extensive menu, just one of which is tacos. But they’re the real deal, served Jalisco style with a specialty of chorizo and steak called the “diablo.” La Fiesta, 1312 Bridford Pkwy, restaurantelafiesta. com La Fiesta’s chain stretches from High Point to Mebane, and its tacos are quite basic and buried
Speakeasy Tavern, 1706 Battleground Ave., speakeasytavern.com It’s more or less a bar with a pretty good menu, so Speakeasy’s tacos are confined to flour shells, but the fish tacos are no joke: fried cod, house pico and cucumber wasabi.
Fishbones, 2119 Walker Ave., fishbonesonline.net The taco deck at this Lindley Park bistro come tucked inside “two handsome corn tortillas,” with selections from filet mignon to ahi tuna, and something called the “twisted chicken.” Casa Vallarta/San Luis, sanluisrestaurant.com This family-owned operation made its name on authenticity while other Mexican joints in town catered to a more homogenized clientele. The tacos run true: carne asada, pollo, pastor, chorizo, lenguas and carnitas. Three per order. Kiosco Mexican Grill, 3011 Spring Garden St., kioscomexicangrill.netwaiter.com Not far from UNCG, amid the Spring Garden business corridor, Kiosco’s taco choices are limited to a steak soft taco and beef or chicken gringo style. La Vaca Ramona, 4516 W. Market St. If all the best tacos come from neighborhood bodegas, then La Vaca Ramona — Ramona the Cow? — a Latino superstore of sorts on the west side of Greensboro, makes a strong case for the best in town. As in all bodega-style counters,
the meat gets cut on premises, the tortillas are pressed in-house and you can buy a piñata if you need one. No need to get fancy: Order the carne asada and smile. Villa del Mar, 3738 High Point Road, villadelmargreensboro.com The hipsters discovered Villa del Mar about five years ago, coming for the real-deal tacos and, according to Ginsburg, the strongest chicken burrito in town. The tacos are great as well, and Ethnosh recently featured the hole-inthe-wall.
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Taqueria Hidalgo, 2609 Randleman Road The official taco shop of the Triad City Beat staff is a mid-sized bodega in a non-descript strip mall. Tasty tacos, with a bunch of great cane-sugar sodas and a friendly staff. Mercadito #1 and #2, Spring Garden Street, Gate City Blvd. The Mercadito on Spring Garden was the first of the city’s bodega-style taco joints to be infiltrated by the Greensboro’s foodies, gushed over in small-group conversations with testimonials like “authentic” and “provincial” and “the only white people there.” They’re both hard to find, and both reward the curious gourmand. Taqueria Latinos, 1601 E. Bessemer Ave. With virtually no online presence save for a Yelp page they seem to be ignoring, Taqueria Latinos regardless does a brisk business in the multicultural stew on Bessemer Avenue. They have all the basics down to the tripe and the tongue, and also a barbacoa taco that is harder to find in the Triad than you might think. San Miguel Restaurant, 3107 Yanceyville St., Publisher Brian Clarey regards San Miguel as his go-to taqueria, a small bodega with fresh ingredients, friendly staff and a deep selection of pastries in the panadería case.
HIGH POINT Mi Taqueria, 800 W. Green Drive, or on Facebook Mi Taqueria is family-style restaurant and bar that offers several taco plates including tacos dorados (chicken fried tacos), and a $6.99 four-taco plate with your choice of chicken, marinated pork, shredded pork, barbacoa, chorizo, tripe, lengua, alambre (beef and bacon combination) and campechanos (generally a beef and pork combo).
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Dos Toros Meat Market / Taco Toro, 810 S. Main St., or on Facebook The grocery store and butcher block is also home to a homestyle Mexican joint that sells tacos accompanied by a jalapeño pepper that has somehow managed to contain the heat of hell within its casing. The all-Spanish menu includes
$2 tacos with choice of asada, chicken, lengua, tripe, carnitas, barbacoa, chorizo, pescado and al pastor.
that solely focus on taco entrees. Aside from the classics, the restaurant also offers fish and shrimp tacos.
El Pequeño Mexico Tienda, Taqueria y Carniceria, 800 S. Main St., or on Facebook This little bodega contains a gem, Taco Corner, which appears to employ everyone’s favorite soul-food cooking aunt. While the menu may be solely written in the native tongue, it doesn’t take an interpreter to figure out what is cooking in the back.
Taquitos to Go, 2033 W. Green Drive, or on Facebook This festive establishment is the home of daily specials, including $1 tacos on Thursdays. Top choices include marinated chicken, adobo marinated beef, pork crackling in green salsa, adobo marinated pork, shredded beef or shredded pork taco.
Pancho Villa’s Mexican Restaurant, 206 W. Fairfield Road, mypanchovillas.com Pancho offers a plethora of dishes — more than 20 — that include a taco or two with choice of a corn or flour tortillas, along with plates
Casa de Soto’s, 1800 Westchester Drive, or on Facebook This place serves up the basics — pick a chicken, steak, beef or shrimp taco, all of which go well with a smear of house guacamole.
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Taco trucks Luciano’s (W-S) 336.755.4782 or Taqueria Luciano’s on Facebook Arguably the best taco truck in the Triad, Luciano’s bounces around Winston-Salem, popping up at farmers markets, Reynolda Village, Krankies and more. The Facebook and Twitter aren’t up to date, so calling is best.
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Bandito Burrito (GSO) @banditotruck on Twitter, or on Facebook. 336.601.3383 This food truck is the easiest to find among the bunch, because of its strong web presence. Tacos range from the more traditional to a fantastic Asian-style option.
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El Torito (GSO) 336.324.0488 Regularly found on Battleground Avenue just north of the intersection with Cone Boulevard, El Torito serves delicious, cheap tacos including al pastor, barbacoa, chicharron and tripe.
WINSTON-SALEM Pancho Villa’s, 799 S. Stratford Road, mypanchovillas.com Whether you want hard or soft tacos, or even a taco salad, Pancho Villa’s in west Winston-Salem has you covered. Try the house specialty Pancho’s Tacos with chorizo and avocado slices or the Tacos Mexicanos special that can feature carne asada, pollo asado or carnitas. La Botana, 1547 Hanes Mall Blvd., labotana-ws.com Known for its extensive vegetarian menu, La Botana also specializes in Tacos Norteños, which come with steak, bacon, radishes, avocado and green onions on flour tortillas, described as Nuevo Leon style. Señor Bravo, 241 S. Marshall St., senorbravo.com The downtown Mexican restaurant with a second location planned for Trade Street is the most centrally located taco outlet in town. Papa Nachos Cantina, 564 Hanes Mall Blvd., papanachoscantina.net If you want tacos at Papa Nachos, be
prepared to order four for around $10, with rice and beans on the side. Formerly known as Nacho Daddy’s. Mi Pueblo, 2905 Reynolda Road, 644 S. Stratford Road, mipueblomexgrill.com A chain with eight locations, including two in High Point and two in Winston-Salem, Mi Pueblo offers a dinner special with a beef taco, beef enchilada, tamale, chalupa and chile relleno. Come hungry. Taco Riendo 3, 3619 Reynolda Road, find on Facebook There’s a reason that this is the only place in Winston-Salem with “taco” in the name (yes, others do say taqueria), though that’s far from the only dish served here. Taco Riendo 3 may be located next to a gas station, but it’s easily one of the best options in town. La Casa Lopez, 3028 Healy Drive, find on Facebook The restaurant run by Jesus and Silvia Lopez brags that it offers “authentic Mexican tacos, such as lengua, al pastor and chorizo.”
Taqueria Taquito Estrella (GSO) Estrella and Torito are similar trucks in terms of selection, taste and sometimes locale. Both have been spotted on Gate City Boulevard — try the intersection with Hilltop Road first for Estrella.
Tacos vs. burritos An endless debate
Other El Camino Real and Crafted (@foodtruckcrafted on Facebook) — two restaurants started in Greensboro that now have Winston-Salem locations as well — also added food trucks to their lineup. Crafted’s is particularly unique. Greensboro’s El Azteca (@ tacotruckgso on Twitter) jumped on the food truck game early, and can frequently be found near Winston-Salem’s Bailey Park. Several other taco trucks are registered with the local county health departments — 1-2-3 Tacos and Taqueria Dona Ana/Anita Cocina Economica in Greensboro, Tacos El Chanfle in Winston-Salem and even El Taco Vaquero in Rural Hall — but none have any online presence. Serious taco fiends can find their numbers on the Guilford and Forsyth health departments’ websites, however.
As much as it pains me to say it, there are advantages to tacos. I’m a devout burrito worshipper — I ate one for lunch today, actually, even though we’re talking all about tacos this week — for reasons I’ll explain shortly, but I have to admit that tacos have several superior qualities. For one, they offer greater variety. We can choose corn or flour tortillas. I’m prone to overlooking this benefit as someone who always selects flour, the variant used for San Francisco-style, handheld burritos, but plenty of people prefer corn for taste or dietary reasons. Given that we’re talking about Mexico, whose country folk are sometimes called the “people of the corn,” the option is all the more important. But tacos provide variety on a deeper level than just the hard or soft shells they arrive in — their size means you can make or order several, each with distinct ingredients, whereas a burrito requires a firm commitment each go-
El Torero, 5900 University Pkwy., or on Facebook Way out by SciWorks in the northern part of the city, there isn’t a whole lot of information about El Torero online, but commenters recommend the carnitas tacos. Tequila Mexican, 2802 Reynolda Road, tequilarestaurantws.com The closest Mexican restaurant to Wake Forest University’s campus has all sorts of margarita specials and emphasizes its carne asada tacos on its new website. Antojitos las Delicias, 1521 E. Fifth St., antojitos-las-delicias.com One of the few Mexican restaurants located in east Winston-Salem, Antojitos only provides outdoor seating. Tacos come with a meat, onion, cilantro and hot sauce in a corn tortilla. Try the huaraches and pupusas while you’re here. La Perlita, 1001 Waughtown St., find on Facebook There are several Mexican joints and Latino-run businesses in Winston-Salem’s Waughtown neighborhood, and La Perlita
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round[√]. Sometimes I want a carne asada, a fish and a nopalitos taco. I’ve tried tacos with octopus, with mac & cheese and a myriad of other ingredients that I wouldn’t put in a burrito. I’m not the type to ask for a lengua burrito, or one featuring any number of other less common meat cuts, but I’ll totally throw it on a taco. The open-faced nature of tacos makes it much easier to add sauce, while you can find me squirting a smoky red sauce on my burrito every couple of bites. Sure, I could ask for the hot sauce to be added before the burrito is rolled, and can do so at home. But tacos allow you to adjust as you go, varying the sauces and spice level of each taco with ease. Plus, if you’re someone like me who doesn’t particularly like cilantro but never remembers to ask for the kitchen to hold it, a taco is an easier vessel to adjust upon arrival. I’m still a burrito man, though. I’m
convinced they hold their temperature better, keeping the meat and ingredients warm inside that tinfoil wrap. They aren’t as leaky — some tacos need a good squeeze to drain some of the juices from the brisket or other components before raising to your face. And burritos typically contain a wider array of ingredients, including basics such as rice to rarer options such as sweet potato. Yes, you can technically put anything in a taco. But those little tortillas can only hold so much, and the vast majority of restaurants and trucks provide just a couple options. Maybe instead of picking sides, we should celebrate the diversity of choices. After all, some of my favorite tacos around here come from Bandito Burrito food truck, an operation that clearly values the heftier alternative. And I similarly recommend the burritos at Taco Riendo 3. I guess we can have our tacos and burritos… and eat them, too.
Camino Real, 3800 Reynolda Road, elcaminoreal01.com The new location of this Greensboro-based favorite helps the Camel City up its taco game with shrimp and fish tacos, as well as the more usual fare. El Rancho Taqueria, 613 E. Sprague St., elranchotacos.com Featured in one of the very first Triad City Beat food articles, there’s a reason that people all across the city talk about El Rancho in the Waughtown area. The menu brags “tacos con sabor a Jalisco.” The Porch Kitchen & Cantina, 840 Mill Works St., dinnersontheporch.blogspot. com Everyone seems to love this Tex-Mex restaurant, so much so that it’s often challenging to get a table. That just means the tacos here are well worth the wait. Mambo Café & Bar, 1527 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, find on Facebook This Salvadoran restaurant serves Mexican and Honduran food as well, but it may be better known as a discoteca. Find tacos at this spot not far south of Winston-Salem State University.
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My taco truck is nothing fancy: a griddle and a short line, They’ve got agua fresca, too. with a long sliding window high enough off the ground that you When I bring them home, a cheer goes up — quite literally — have to look up to place your order. as everybody picks out their pieces and anoints them with lime It’s staffed by a family, as far as I can tell — our exchanges and sauce. We fight over the containers of salsa verde and, are cordial, but thus far strictly businesslike — and sometimes sometimes, the last taco. I think the house record sits right now the son, who looks about 10 years old, squirms in a lawn chair at six. beside it like he is being tortured. My kids, ranging from 12 to 16, like the taco truck better than I like that. the ice cream truck these days. I like that when I told them my wife was vegan, they had no El Camino showed up without fanfare about three years ago, idea what I was talking about, and had trouble I think — I just started passing it on the way conceiving of a taco or burrito that at least home from work, thinking to myself every El Camino taco truck time: Man, one of these days I gotta stop at didn’t have a little cheese on it. And I like it that when I leave a tip, the woman who takes that taco truck. is often parked on my order always tries to give it back. Until one day finally I did. Summit Avenue near They’ve got everything you could want: It’s rarely closed and there’s never a line. It’s all manner of pork and chicken and beef, next to a bodega, if you need some Jarritos, Cone Boulevard. and enough of the weird stuff like tripe and and sometimes, on weekend evenings, the tongue and porkskin to keep it real. parking lot is filled with music from the cars We generally stick to tacos, though El Camino offers everywaiting for orders. It’s maybe — maybe — just a little bit sketchy thing from tortas to burritos, and we usually pick chicken and late on Saturday nights. I like that, too. beef, and we’ve taken to ordering them 20 at a time. It’s not trendy, I don’t think; my taco truck is probably the Sometimes they have raw onion inside, sometimes grilled. rolling culinary equivalent of a dive bar. But it’s an honest propSometimes there’s cilantro or a bit of radish, sometimes not. osition: tacos, at a buck-fifty apiece, take ’em and go. The soft corn tortillas are of varying thicknesses and have a And though it’s off-menu, they can make a vegan burrito if satisfying skin from the griddle. you ask.
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t’s finally here. After almost 15 years of waiting, this stretch of northeast Greensboro along Phillips Avenue is — at long last — home to a grocery store again. To an outsider it might not sound like much; there’s neighborhood in Winston-Salem where three compete, and plenty of Greensboro residents have no problem dropping in at a Harris Teeter or Food Lion. But Guilford is a county with more than a dozen food deserts, with a consistently high food-hardship rate, and this is a section of the city with not much else going for it when it comes to fresh food. That’s why residents organized to form the Renaissance Community Co-op, a cooperatively run grocery store behind McGirt-Horton Library. But hopefully you know the basics of that story by now. You should; it’s one of the best examples of successful community organizing in this area, and there’s already a similar attempt being planned in Winston-Salem. According to food researcher and UNCG associate professor Marianne LeGreco, the Renaissance Co-op actually knocks out two food deserts in one shot, making it all the more important. The cooperative celebrates its grand opening this weekend, but the store actually launched a few weeks ago. There were still a couple of kinks to sort out that first week, of course — employees learning codes for produce and differentiating between the organic ver-
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man, taking it all in with some friends or colleagues, sions of things, and a cooler that remained unstocked marveled that the $3.77 packs of 12 toilet paper rolls — but all I could think about as I sat at a counter space were priced cheaper than the ones he buys at Walmart. eating lunch from the hot line in the back is how amazPremade sandwiches in the back go for as cheap as ing it is that this is a reality. $4, and the hot bar — though limited — is just $7 per I watched an employee picking up litter in the pound. parking lot outside, a lot that’s been Like Deep Roots, they’ll ask you if landscaped and redone as part of a you’re an owner at check out, and bigger investment surrounding the Visit the Renaissance are a couple products such as grocery. I recalled coming to the Community Co-op at 2517 there Equal Exchange coffee that would shopping center years ago, with its Phillips Ave. (GSO) or go be at home in Whole Foods. But busted-up sign, somewhat janky for the most part, the Renaissance parking lot and empty storefront. I to renaissancecoop.com Coop is designed to serve the comthought of the gas station quickie to learn more about bemunity it’s in, providing good, fresh marts I’d passed west of there on coming a member. food that’s healthy and cheap. Phillips Avenue, the only accessible Few things could be more imfood for plenty of residents in this portant. That’s part of the reason I area. I considered the fight to keep trekked across the city to eat lunch there, and picked the White Street Landfill closed to municipal solid up some of that cheap toilet paper, too. I’ll be back waste — a battle waged by many of the same people to shop at the Renaissance Coop again, even though who built the co-op after the city had promised never there are at least three grocery stores closer to my to reopen the environmental hazard. home, because I can. And the budding business needs I’ve seen plenty of changes in Greensboro in my all the support it can get. decade of living here. But as I sat there, eating some semi-sweet barbecue, a couple delicious meatballs and some slightly overcooked spaghetti, I couldn’t think of any accomplishment more significant or positive than this grocery store. Pick of the Week The Renaissance Co-op is a little smaller than Trader Put your little pinkies up Joe’s in Winston-Salem or Deep Roots in downtown Wine tasting @ Brewer’s Kettle (HP), Wednesday, 5 Greensboro, though it’s bigger than Deep Roots was p.m. back when it was on Spring Garden Street. There’s a The High Point bottle shop opens its doors for a large produce section, right near the front, filled with South American wine tasting for wine consumers fresh vegetables at affordable prices. near and far. No need to get fancy, just bring your Some of the items on the shelves were new to me, thirst and a designated driver. For more informalike Shasta ginger ale for less than a dollar, and they tion, visit the Brewer’s Kettle Facebook page. were new to people shopping around me, too. One
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Female-fronted band channels eco-justice, Latin folk and grunge by Jordan Green
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he idea for the band’s name came to Denisse Funes and Laura Carisa Gardea one evening when they were walking to their neighborhood gas station to buy beer. They were both thinking about the South American word Pachamama, which roughly translates as “Mother Earth.” They adopted the abbreviated “Mama,” which perfectly matched their mission. The decision to start a band came after spending hours together volunteering with a program through the North Carolina Cooperative Extension to help people start backyard gardens on the south side of Winston-Salem. An almost spiritual eco-justice sensibility matched with a general sense of disenchantment toward society shapes Mama’s sound — an amalgam of raw garage-y chaos and ethereal yet discombobulated vocals. “If you get into horticulture JORDAN GREEN and studying soil and our Denisse Funes, Laura Carisa Gardea and Andrew Irving (l-r) are Mama. bodies… you realize we are an extension of the earth,” said can get together with your friends, and maybe come Gardea, the band’s vocalist up with something that sounds like this on your own.” and guitarist, during a recent interview at Krankies Gardea added, “It can be more exciting that way. You Coffee. “We have to use our voices and instruments to have this feeling of, ‘Is this going to fall apart?’ But no, give expression to it.” that’s the world we live in.” Classically trained as an opera singer at UNC School When Andrew Irving, who also plays with the of the Arts, Gardea made a hard pivot after graduating Winston-Salem band Foxture, joined Mama on drums, in the spring. While preparing to pursue a master’s Gardea urged him to take a looser approach, and focus degree related to her growing interest in ecological more on feeling than precise execution. sustainability, she’s chosen a creative outlet that disMama’s self-titled debut, released on Sept. 30, was cards the structures of her formal training. recorded live at a house party in Greensboro, capturing “Mama is a truer expression of how I’m feeling,” the unpredictability and excitement of making music she said. “The rawness informs the music with more on the spot as opposed to carefully constructing studio honesty.” tracks. She taught herself how to play guitar over the Although Gardea and Funes are both Latina, they’ve course of about two years, looking to Lou Reed and found their gender sets them apart in John Cale of the Velvet Underground the local music scene more than their models of what she calls “deconstructMama performs at ethnicity. ing formal training.” “Mama’s really unique because you Funes had initially planned to play Test Pattern, located have mostly women in the group,” drums, but she and Gardea eventually at 701 Trade St. (W-S) Gardea said. “We go to shows and decided she would be more useful on Saturday. people were like, ‘Where are those on bass. She took up the instrument girls’ boyfriends?’ And then we pick up shortly before the band formed at the instruments, and they’re like, ‘Oh, they’re a band.’” beginning of 2016, and has already developed a distincGardea and Funes have talked about exploring more tive style with propulsive grooves that seem to burrow Latina aspects in the future, but their music already into the music and reverberate over its surface at the bears distinct hallmarks of their heritage, along with same time. ’90s grunge. Gardea’s reflective alto nods to her “We connect more with people because you can see heroes, the late Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa and that music doesn’t have to be perfect,” she said. “You
blues singer Leadbelly, while Funes grew up in Ecuador listening to everything from System of a Down and Manu Chao to Victor Jara, a political folksinger who was murdered by the Pinochet regime in Chile in the early ’70s. As young Latinas in Winston-Salem, Gardea and Funes have traveled different paths. Gardea’s family, who claims Mexican, French and Irish heritage, came to Winston-Salem from El Paso, Texas in the ’80s so her family could take a job with RJ Reynolds Tobacco. Gardea herself was born in the United States. There were so few Latinos in the city at that time that most of her friends were black or white. “Part of the reason I didn’t feel so much animosity is my parents took it upon themselves to be leaders,” Gardea said. “My father served as president of the Hispanic League for several years.” Funes emigrated from Ecuador at the age of 18, and is now a permanent resident of the United States. “Coming here has been super crazy,” Funes said. “I’ve changed my beliefs. I’ve changed a lot. Over there, I was with my friends all the time and I didn’t have time to reflect. When I came here, I didn’t have that. I didn’t have friends. I became a little more introspective.” After first moving to New Jersey, she “met someone special,” and they decided to move together to Winston-Salem, where Funes’ boyfriend had extended family. She’s currently studying for her bachelor’s in biology as a pre-med student at UNCG. Irving, who is black, has adopted Mama’s credo with enthusiasm. “A lot of it, from what I get, is anti-conformist, anti-societal [feeling],” he said. Gardea cut in to clarify: “But positive social deviancy.” Cognitive dissonance is the strongest emotion in the music, stemming from frustration over issues like inadequate public transit and fast-food culture, she said. “I find cognitive dissonance in having to adhere oneself to society’s standards to be successful, to be able to live well and provide,” Gardea said. “I don’t want to say there are a lot of little traps and pitfalls, but sure. For me, it brings a lot of sadness, sometimes anger, but I don’t know how to handle that because I’m not particularly aggressive.”
Pick of the Week Calling all masked crusaders Musical hero tribute @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), Sunday, 2 p.m. Maestra Jessica Morel makes her directing debut as a new assistant conductor with the Winston-Salem Symphony in Salute to Superheroes, a musical concert created to praise the astonishing gifts of comic-book heroes while honoring local veterans, police officers and firefighters. Pre-concert activities begin at 2 p.m. and lead into the 3 p.m. concert. Costumes of your favorite superhero are strongly encouraged. More information at wssymphony.org or by calling 336.464.0145.
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hat does it mean to be seen? Strip away a person’s monetary possessions, family history, finances or education — could you define an individual beyond her gender or skin tone and the preconceived notions that are tied with those attributes? Seven artists deliver their interpretation of what it means to be made visible in the exhibit Do You See Me? The exhibit, on display at the Diggs Gallery on the campus of Winston-Salem State University, includes work from Davion Alston, Jordan Casteel, John Edmonds, Ivan Forde, Aaron Fowler, Zun Lee, Terence Nance, Chris Watts and Lamar Whidbee, who use photography and mixed media to give viewers an intimate look at different marginalized segments of society, particularly African Americans. Photographer and writer John Edmonds displayed 13 photographs of a black man wearing a black hat and partial facemask in his section “All Eyes on Me.” The most prominent and visible part of the man’s face: his eyes. At times he looks as if he notices something going on behind the viewer, while at others he looks as if he is the one being watched. In one portrait, he appears to be motioning to remove the black mask that covers his mouth. With his hand near his mouth, eyes simultaneously showing fear, one image begs the question whether there is something happening in the foreground making him feel compelled to remove the mask. In his collection “Food for Thought,” Alston displayed six archival pigment prints of seemingly harmless objects that have now become symbols of cautionary tales for black Americans. The first two portraits, for example, contain a bag of Skittles. In the first frame, the unopened bag of the candy sits upright and feels unthreatening by itself. COURTESY PHOTO Aaron Fowler’s installation describes the eulogy Lezley McSpadden delivered for her son In the next one, the bag has been opened. Although Michael Brown, killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. in 2014. void of a human entity, the piece obviously represents Trayvon Martin. in concert to illustrate the overlooked depths of black comes through in Fowler’s installation about Michael While many of the works contained within the Americans’ humanity amidst an often indifferent Brown and his mother, Lezley McSpadden. The piece exhibit showed examples of how black Americans are and sometimes deadly broader culture. The artists’ contains words from McSpadden’s eulogy for her son, negatively perceived in society or chronicle the tragic messages, while divergent in tone and presentation, painted on abandoned plywood. The words “he was” events where minorities have been wrongfully targetcompel visitors to wade deeper into the pain and joy stand out among all the others cast in the paint along ed, award-winning Canadian photographer Lee used contained within the pieces, reflecting the weighty with one set of words formed out of his collection to go in an opposite historic-yet-current epoch. dirt and gravel. direction. “Father Figure” positively Woven within the piece is a displays the active role black fathers Do You See Me will be on portrait of Brown’s mother, her hair play in the lives of their children, a display at Diggs Gallery created out of hair extensions and contrast to the adverse image perconstruction nails. Fowler made her at Winston-Salem State petuated in society. eyes with pieces of oval mirrors, one Pick of the Week In one documentary portrait University until March with a crack that stretches across taken in New York in 2013, Jerrell Simba speaks 1, 2017. The museum the length of it, reflecting the image Wills teaches his son how to brush Theatrical collabo @ Enrichment Center, (W-S), of anyone who stands in front of the is open from Tuesday his teeth, while in another image Thursday and Friday, 6:30 p.m. installation. There is a heavy looking he is seen hiding behind a door and The students and staff of the Enrichment Center through Saturday from rope that stretches out from the crying into his hands as his son bring A Tale of Courage — Simba’s Story to the wall and connects to another piece 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. stays shielded from his moment stage. The collaborative performance includes the of plywood that contains a painted of vulnerability. Lee’s section also Percussion Ensemble, Vocal Ensemble, Dance and portrait of a younger Brown. The includes pictures of fathers touching Theatre Ensemble and Culinary Arts department at rope used to tie the fixture of Brown to the painted the hands of their children through glass and windows the center. For more information about the dinner portrait of his mother recalls both an umbilical cord as if saying goodbye and a daughter playing with her theater fundraiser, visit enrichmentarc.org/events and the history of enslavement. father’s head as he tries to get her to go to bed. or call 336.837.6828. It’s haunting and somewhat heartbreaking, as are The strong connection of parent and child also other components of the larger exhibit, which work
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aybe I should stop covering Wake Forest University athletic events. Call me Deacon blues. The first time I covered a Wake game, the UNC-Pembroke men’s basketball team looked primed for an upset by Anthony Harrison against the Demon Deacons at home in a cupcake exhibition game at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, but the Deacs pulled it together in the second half. Then, the Stanford Cardinal did indeed upset the top-seed Wake Forest men’s soccer team in the NCAA tournament at W. Dennie Spry Stadium. Perhaps the Syracuse University Orange men’s basketball squad surprised no one when they decimated Wake Forest at LJVM, but still, I was there to witness the slaughter. And I was at the Greensboro Coliseum when the Lady Deacs took the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets down to the wire in the early rounds of the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament, but a layup rolled out of the basket and cost them a last-second win. Let’s face it: I bring bad juju. But the football team’s been on a roll this season. Wake Forest started the season in a defensive struggle against the Tulane University Pelicans, winning 7-3. A more decisive win at Duke University continued a four-game win streak before the Wolfpack ripped them to shreds at NC State University. A rebound week at home against Syracuse signified a return to fine form until they went down to Tallahassee, where the No. 14 Florida State University Seminoles went on the warpath against the hapless Deacons.
returned to the Wake Forest 43-yard line left the Deacs I figured there was no way my presence at the Oct. defending their own territory. 29 game at BB&T Field could bring them down. For Not for long, though: Army quarterback Ahmad one thing, it was homecoming and, after all, they were Bradshaw launched a strike into the end zone for wide playing Army. An ACC team could take down West receiver Edgar Poe to begin the fall of the house of Point, right? Deacons. Well… problem is, the Black Knights are having one Still, no big deal. Just one touchdown isn’t too bad, of their best seasons in recent memory, too. right? Could’ve been worse. There’s the old cliché of football being like war, and Things didn’t get better. no matter how tired it is, the comparWake cornerback John Armstrong ison holds true. It’s a physically brutal returned Army’s punt for a possible sport of conquering territory, crushing Wake Forest led touchdown, but a holding penalty blows, precise offensive and defensive going into the wiped that score off the board. Adding strategy and maneuvering. to injury, the Deacs had to start And the element of surprise always fourth, but allowed insult over at their own 10. comes into play. A ray of hope shone down on BB&T Take, for example, the end of the Army to light up Field after Wolford connected with wide Deacons’ first drive: A deep pass by the board with two receiver Tabari Hines at midfield, driving quarterback John Wolford intended for eight yards into the Black Knights’ tight end Cam Serigne bobbled out of touchdowns. territory. Serigne’s hands, and Army defensive But then that dream crashed down back Rhyan England turned on a dime to after Army defensive back Elijah Riley pick it out of the air. picked off another Wolford pass thrown a bit too high. An interception isn’t the best way to start off your There’s little more to say than the Deacons could homecoming. not get started on offense. Those turnovers could’ve But the Wake defense made things difficult for the been huge plays, but physics and communication were Black Knights from the start. just not in the home team’s favor on this day. West Point relied heavily on the run in their first atAllow me to say again that Wake’s defense kept tempt at putting points on the board, and for a while, them in the game. For over three quarters, the staunch it worked. But the Deacs eventually had their number, line rushed the pass, consistently shut down the run, stopping them short of the red zone. And kicker Blake landed sacks and forced turnovers, including a brilliant Wilson’s 29-yard field goal attempt went wide. end-zone steal by Deacon safety Jessie Bates III toward A close call, for sure. All Wake had to do was shake the close of the third quarter. off the nerves and drive. But while the defense pins the opposition, the ofInstead, after two short runs and an incomplete fense must hold up their end of the bargain, and Wake pass, the special teams hit the field, and a short punt just couldn’t land the needed coup de grace. They even led going into the fourth quarter, 10-7, but the exhausted defense allowed Army’s runners to light up the board with two touchdowns. Wake nailed a 34-yard field goal with 1:25 remaining, but Army secured the onside kick attempt, shoveling dirt onto the Deacons’ nailed-up coffin. After the clock ran down on Army’s 21-13 victory, a white-haired, bearded man in the Deacon Tower elevator with a beer gut and a hearing aid wearing a West Point hat said, “Feels good to kick some ACC butt,” to no one in particular, his stained grin missing a right canine tooth.
Pick of the Week Hou-Swarming party Greensboro Swarm Open House @ Greensboro Coliseum Fieldhouse (GSO), Saturday, 10 a.m. As the Charlotte Hornets’ D-League team draws closer and closer to its official debut, you can catch a sneak peek at the team on Saturday. The open house features an open practice, autograph opportunities, prize giveaways and more. Take the chance to buy tickets and select seats. Admission is free.
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pact my life and it could affect some friendships,” she (Based on the number of double-parked cars in the said, shaking her head sadly. “I haven’t had a conversagarage — and the amount of pee that recently decorattion about it until now, but here at the end, I can have ed the elevator — there are a number of pro-Trumpers an opinion and I can share my beliefs. It’s my birthday. who live here). My Obama signs four and eight years No one will be ugly to me on my birthday, right?” ago never attracted that kind of anger, but maybe my With that, she slipped her phone into her purse and neighbors didn’t learn how to read until recently we all took another step toward the door. Trump’s own rallies have been a stark contrast to the tame-looking Clinton crowd lined up in Winston-Salem on Oct. 27. Two days later, a frothing man in a “Hillary Jelisa Castrodale is a freelance writer who lives in for Prison” shirt proudly chanted anti-Semitic slurs at Winston-Salem. She enjoys pizza, obscure power-pop a Trump event in Phoenix. He spread his arms wide and records and will probably die alone. Follow her on Twitter gave a television camera a side-eye glance, not because @gordonshumway. he seemed worried that it was filming: He actually seemed more concerned that it wasn’t. Although he doesn’t represent the majority of Trump supporters, there are a lot of men (and women) just like him, who seem to be galvanized by their candidate’s words and actions. Knowing that those people are out there — and are unlikely to go away after the Trump/Pence signs have been yanked out of their front yards — is one of the most concerning takeaways of this election. One of the other lingering effects is the idea that, regardless of the way this thing turns out, anyone can be president. If you’re a woman, you can be president! And if you’re a completely unqualified doofus who acts like someone collected a bucket of the hate slime from Ghostbusters 2, put it in an ill-fitting suit and gave it a teleprompter, you too can be president! What a country! Every time I think that America will make the right choice on Nov. 8, I remember that this is a place where we have to print howto instructions on our toothpaste tubes, and I start chewing at my own cuticles again. Back at the LJVM Coliseum, Annette Good through 11/8/16 Gardner had decided she Monday – Thursday was ready to post that Order online at pizzerialitaliano.net picture on Facebook. “This really could im219 S Elm Street, Greensboro •
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Do you have a Nasty Woman?” a woman with an elaborately knotted scarf asked loudly. “I was really hoping for a Nasty Woman.” A handful of vendors walked the Lawrence Joel Memorial Coliseum parking lot holding posterboards with by Jelisa Castrodale dozens of buttons attached, everything from pictures of a bright-eyed Hillary Clinton, to the stylized “I’m With Her” arrow, to one of Michelle Obama rolling up a chambray sleeve and flexing her bicep, Rosie the Riveter style. The man adjusted his “Hillary for President” hat and shook his head no, as did all of the other vendors who walked past the 10,000-person line that slowly inched its way toward the door. We’d been standing outside for hours, excitedly shifting from foot to foot as we waited to see Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama in their first joint campaign appearance, and we still had at least two hours to go. The woman settled on a hat instead. “A hat’s probably better anyway,” she said, placing it lightly on her head. “And I’m still a Nasty Woman, even without a pin.” Despite the lack of branded merch, the line was filled with self-described Nasty Women (and dudes) waiting to see our newly christened patron saint. Some were in brand new “Grab Him By the Ballot” T-shirts that still bore creases down the center, others had well-worn gear from the Clinton-Gore campaign, and we were all accessorizing with our most optimistic facial expressions. “I got this one because she looked A Christian and really strong,” 17-yearold Ariel Gardner said, lifelong Republican pinning a new “Madcomes out to Jelisa am President” button to her sweatshirt. She as a Dem. and her mother, Annette, had driven from Mount Airy for the event. They had just finished taking pictures of themselves with the massive crowd, and now she was debating whether to post them online. “It’s my birthday and my first political rally,” Annette told me. “And today I’m also coming out as a Democrat. That’s the part that makes me nervous.” She had been a lifelong Republican, she said, but the nastiness of this election had made her question whether she wanted to press the buttons on that side of the ballot. “I’ve always voted for the person, not the party,” she said, as she swiped through several fresh selfies. “I have Christian beliefs, and I think Hillary has more of those beliefs than Donald Trump does. It really is love versus hate this year.” This has been the most contentious election season that I can remember. A couple of weeks ago, I taped an anti-Trump sign in my own window and within 12 hours, some of the my pro-Trump neighbors were making threats, calling the property managers and waving copies of the building’s bylaws in my general direction.
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