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is a self-taught lettering artist whose background is in music and English literature. She got her professional start in 2009 with a beginner’s calligraphy set and the job of addressing her college roommate’s wedding invitations. Since that time, she has further developed her lettering skills, experimenting with a variety of tools and techniques to form a distinct style that is constantly growing and evolving.

Her look is clean and simple, mixing modern calligraphy script with handdrawn serif type or block lettering, and she uses this hybrid style to create greeting cards, art prints, postcards, and other goods under the name Em Dash Paper Co. Her work features sentiments that reflect the multiple facets of her own personality: a bit edgy and a bit sweet, with a strong undercurrent of genuine kindness. Some quotes are chosen from favorite songs, authors, or historical figures, but many of the words she letters are her own thoughts and phrasings — she especially enjoys beautifully lettered profanity. When she isn’t running her business, Emily is likely reading, taking photos, practicing yoga, or exploring her beloved Winston-Salem.

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14 Editorial: Straight outta GOP 14 Cit Green: Agitator > conciliator 15 IJMW: Conflict reenactments 15 Fresh Eyes: Colleges and universities are not neutral spaces

26 Another man’s treasure

NEWS 8 Hundreds stand with Syrian refugees in Greensboro 10 Arts council reaches into the community in Winston-Salem 12 Greensboro and High Point pursue economic development together

COVER 16 The 2015 Local Gift Guide

CULTURE 20 Food: Persiania 21 Barstool: Sunshine Cocktail Month 22 Music: Holy Ghost Tent Revival 24 Art: Triad filmmaker’s first dive

GAMES 27 Jonesin’ Crossword

SHOT IN THE TRIAD 28 North Park Drive, Greensboro

ALL SHE WROTE 30 My favorite things

QUOTE OF THE WEEK I hunted drink bottles to get my cards. I’d be rooting in a briar patch by the railroad tracks to hunt a bottle for an extra penny to get the card I wanted. That’s old school.

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Marshall’s arts

by Brian Clarey

It’s a last-minute deal, thrown together after a vague notion on Thursday coincided with a spare couple hours on Friday evening. So we head to Common Grounds as the sky grows dark to see our old friend Marshall Lakes. And we’re quite late.

Morgan Miller is well into her set by the time we get to the back room where Marshall has been curating small art installations that lend a Warholian element to the space.

Tonight, while Miller’s country croon soothes the grown folks up front and their kids gather in the tiny theater to the side, large acrylics of Yoda, the Hulk and the Flash bridge the gap.

Marshall isn’t showing tonight, handing the spotlight off to artist Matari Bain, who holds similar reverence for the superhero canon.

The pieces, the large acrylics and a display of smaller prints, seem to be moving.

Marshall’s made a key pivot this year, expanding from the actual creation of art to the necessity of selling it, in the process turning his ambition outward to the long tail of people who can’t get enough portraits of Wolverine.

He’s been hitting the comic-show circuit, taking advantage of Greensboro’s easy access to the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, just a few hours by car in any direction to markets exponentially larger than our own.

He’s selling pieces, making connections, building a following with the sort of legwork that all creatives must endure on the path to sustainability, invisible to anyone born without the maker’s itch.

Here in town, he’s helping other artists grow a culture that he’s been in on for a decade. Bain, whose treatment of the Hulk is reminiscent of the work of the Dutch Masters, benefits from Marshall’s largesse.

He’s been hitting the comMarshall’s other art, deliciously, is ic-show circuit, taking advanmartial, from judo tage of Greensboro’s easy to krav maga. For access to to the rest of the a guy like me, it’s Eastern Seaboard. an irresistible pun to make.

And just like in the art world, reach is important.

My sister, in from New York, picks up a couple prints.

That’s what people from New York do, Marshall increasingly finds, as do people from Atlanta, Charlotte and Chicago.

Next year, he’ll log even more miles following the action that cannot find him here.

Tonight, the intersection of art and commerce is at the corner of Walker and Elam. But Marshall is learning that you can get anywhere from here.

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CITY LIFE November 25 – December 1

WEDNESDAY

Pre-Thanksgiving celebration @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market (GSO), 7 a.m.

Impress your family and guests with a locally sourced Thanksgiving meal and have fun in the meantime. The Greensboro Farms Curb Market is hosting a Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration during its weekly Mid Week Market. Visit gsofarmersmarket.org for more information.

THURSDAY 5 Before the Feast @ YMCA (HP), 8 a.m.

The Thanksgiving Day 5K run might be a minority of Thanksgiving traditions, but a great one nonetheless. Get your running shoes on and visit hpymca.org for more details.

FRIDAY

The Really Really Free Market @ Corner of Grove St. and Glenwood Ave. (GSO), 11 a.m.

It’s says so in the title twice so it must really be free, although currency is sort of defunct at this market. Bring things you want to part with, and take whatever you want at this communal shopping experience designated “buy nothing day,” which is really the antithesis of Black Friday. Don’t hold out on the items you bring and if you need more details just visit the group’s Facebook page.

It’s a Wonderful Life LIVE from WVL Radio Theatre @ Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7 p.m.

What better way to start the holidays than a story within a story? In this take on It’s a Wonderful Life, only a few WVL Radio actors have braved the snow to show up for the performance.

Viewers are privy to a live broadcast of Frank Capra’s classic Christmas tale, which means seeing the foley artist at work and the drama that happens behind the voices.

For more details visit carolinatheatre.com.

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SATURDAY

Magpie Thief @ Gia (GSO), 9 p.m.

Imagine a stripped-down version of Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan — not in clothing, but in instrumentation — and then give it the gritty sounds and street smarts of Greensboroans Matty Sheets and Emily Stewart and you’ve got something close to Magpie Thief. They play their tunes of love and loss as you sit and place fancy new-age food in your mouth. Visit drinkeatlisten.com for more information.

The Second Mother @ Red Cinemas (GSO), TBA Brazil’s selection for the foreign Academy Award looks at modern sociopolitical and family relations. The Second Mother follows a tireless live-in housekeeper as she tries to reconcile with her free-loving and ambitious daughter. Both sociopolitical dynamics and hearts are torn wide open in this touching dramatic comedy. Visit redcinemas.com for more information.

Handmade for the Holidays @ Deep Roots Market (GSO), 7 a.m.

Nestled between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business Saturday, where the unsung heroes of plush art, pottery and fiber art get a little love. Deep Roots Market hosts the market with locally sourced gifts.

Find more information on the Handmade for the Holidays Facebook page.

Ivadell LP release show @ The Crown (GSO), 7 p.m.

Amplifier ’zine hosts a release party for the experimental post-hardcore guys with a touch of sweetness, Ivadell. They perform their latest LP “Maybe Tomorrow” along with performances by Greensboro bands Torch Runner and Totally Slow. Find the event page on Facebook for more details.

Carolina Christmas Spectacular @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Former Olympian acrobats contort and swing to the sounds of Winston-Salem Symphony for the third annual Carolina Christmas Spectacular. Cirque de la Symphonie, a company of renowned acrobats and gymnasts who perform specifically with symphonies, performs with the symphony. For more details visit WSsymphony.org.

SUNDAY

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All Them Witches @ The Garage (W-S), 9 p.m.

Heavy metal meets psychedelia and slide guitar, among other elements of Southern music, in Nashville’s All Them Witches. This four-piece is a Black Sabbath redux with more amplification and a few finger picking ballads thrown in. They play with North Carolina’s electronic-psychedelic man Jared Draughon as Must Be the Holy Ghost. Find tickets and more information at the-garage.ws.

MONDAY Dinner with a Side of Culture @ Café Europa (GSO), 7 p.m.

Get to know the Art of Chase, a street artist from LA who teams up with freshly pressed coffee shop Urban Grinders and the city-makers of Create Your City to bring some flare to downtown Greensboro as part of their No Blank Walls street art project. It’s a conversation with room for further participation in the street art project.

You can find more details on the Dinner with a Side of Culture Facebook page.

GREENSBORO Noshup @ Quisqueya Restaurant (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

Ethnosh, a culinary expedition sponsored by three Greensboro organizations (Face to Face, Triad Local First and Bluezoom Advertising), throws down with some Dominican cuisine. Meet the owners and see what Dominican food can do for you at this neighborly meet up. Find the Facebook page or search Noshup on wherevent.com for more details.

TUESDAY

Swingle Bells @ Old Salem Visitors Center (W-S), 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Experience the first wave of this season’s Christmas tunes with Winston-Salem’s small but talented Carolina Chamber Symphony Players. This jazzy group of nine brings all the classics including the sinister “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch.” Find more information at carolinachambersymphony.org.

Dragon’s Milk Release Party @ Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema (GSO), 4 p.m.

Bathed in bourbon barrels and carrying the fragrance of coffee and chocolate, New Holland Brewing Co.’s Dragon’s Milk Reserve is not your grandpa’s stout. Geeksboro is ready to let this is 11% ABV beer out of its cage and, in fact, they hold the only keg of this beer in Greensboro. You can find more details by following the coffeehouse cinema on Facebook.

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It might work, and it has My friend Carroll Leggett, who like me, did a tour in Washington, DC in the ’70’s and ’80s, has a good idea. [“It Just Might Work: A restaurant-workers emergency fund”; by Eric Ginsburg; Nov. 18, 2015] As a matter of fact it was done at my favorite bar in Washington. In 2011, the Tune Inn, at 331 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, burned. It is proudly a real dive. It was restored but during the time it was closed the neighborhood and patrons raised $40,000 to support the wait staff and cooks during its closure. I was there the weekend of the reopening and the same wait staff returned and was serving customers. An aside: The restoration was very accurate, however they could not replicate the smoke-stained walls from decades of cigarette smoke perfectly. The commercial stain simply can’t match.

Doug Copeland, via email Leveraging the system Thanks for your story. [“Should we fix the jails or get addicts out of them?”; by Jordan Green; Nov. 18, 2015] I noticed that in North Carolina the county

health department is supposed to approve jail medical plans. That is interesting (not the case in all states) and provides possible avenues for education and advocacy. If the state public health department or even the state public health association were to take a position recommending alternatives to incarceration for people with substance use disorder and recommending access to medication-assisted therapy for people who are jailed, that might have some impact, if the county health departments take their cue from the state health department (I don’t know the extent to which they do). The state public health association doesn’t control public policy but can speak with authority about addiction and treatment and what promotes health and wellbeing. They or the American Public Health Association may have already put together position papers or materials explaining the issues. And they can highlight the counties that are providing treatment.

Thank you for your commitment to uncovering what happened to your friend and for drawing attention to the issues.

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7 local gift ideas for the TCB staff 1. Brian Clarey, editor in chief

I dropped some pretty serious hints last year about my desire for a pair of raw, selvedge denim jeans made from fabric woven at Cone Mills in Greensboro — a penchant developed from a cover story I worked on last year. I’m gonna keep talking about it until I get the pants, sized 32x34.

2. Daniel Wirtheim, editorial intern

Since walking into the sound chamber of Ember Audio + Video in Winston-Salem, I’ve dreamed of paying those guys to spend a few hours in my apartment designing and building the most amplified space in the Triad. I want speakers in the shower, on every wall and even coffee mugs, if they can do that.

I want to feel the sound.

3. Jorge Maturino, art director

Two things I would like for Christmas this year would one be a print of “Prince of Peace” by Akiane Kramarik and a pair of hunting boots.

4. Jordan Green, senior editor

Vintage Thrift & Antiques in High Point has these great posters of High Point College’s 1971 homecoming with the Allman Brothers performing at Memorial Auditorium. Goose Creek Symphony, a band from my native Kentucky, was the supporting act. I keep repeating this to myself, marveling at how much cooler High Point must have been in the early ’70s: The Allman Brothers played homecoming at High Point College. But thanks to their relative obscurity and genius, Goose Creek Symphony really seals the deal. I have one of their albums, which I picked up at a used record store in High Point that is no longer open, incidentally. From their sound, one can surmise that the members of Goose Creek Symphony grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky steeped in the traditional string-band music of Bill Monroe, got turned on to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and LSD while attending the University of Kentucky, and decided to throw all of those elements together into a heady stew of fiddles and trumpets.

5. Dick Gray, marketing executive

I want a pair of orange high-top Chuck Taylor sneaks with black soles and a 10-day cruise with my family to Alaska.

6. Nicole Crews, columnist

All I want for the holidays is one of those grocery cart 5-minute, in-store shopping frenzies at one of two of my favorite Triad locations of Design Archives Emporium.

7. Eric Ginsburg, associate editor

I’d happily take anything on the food, booze or swag lists in the cover section on page 16 (I wrote those). Some new art would be cool, and there’s no shortage of sweet pieces from the catalogs of Pixels & Wood in Winston-Salem or Heart & Craft in Greensboro, and I love the lively and colorful wildlife paintings of my friend Camilo Perdomo. But more than a bottle of gin or something to hang on my wall, I could really go for a massage. Lucky for you, Brian Clarey came up with a list of legit local providers (also in the cover story).

Readers: It looks like some of you were too busy thinking about turkey to respond, but those of you who did chose venison and “other” in equal number (29 percent). Our intern Daniel Wirtheim had a smart aleck reason for choosing “other” that I’m refusing to repeat here. Pork and tofurkey tied for second place (18 percent), trailed by pizza with the remaining 6 percent. Nobody voted for turducken — we’re officially declaring the death of that fad.

Jordan Green: Anything but turkey or tofurkey. Pork is

New question: What’s your favorite Triad holiday tradition? Vote at triad-city-beat.com!

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by Jordan Green I realize that Biscuitville is a chain, but it’s a regional chain — with locations across North Carolina and southern Virginia — so the restaurant is necessarily sacrificing quality for quantity. And it’s a local chain, with headquarters in Greensboro, so if you think about dollars spent at Walmart funneling back to Bentonville, Ark., by the same token eating at Biscuitville keeps customers money circulating in the Triad.

I think of Biscuitville as a quality regional chain, not unlike Darryl’s back in the day. And like the last remaining Darryl’s under the stewardship of Marty Kotis in Greensboro, Biscuitville is reinventing itself to stay current with the evolving and more discerning tastes of its customers.

Last year, the chain began rolling out its Fresh Southern local sourcing program, with pulled pork from Chandler Foods in Greensboro, flour from Sanford Milling in Henderson and pickles from Mount Olive.

People who normally eschew fast food sometimes make an exception for McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches, but Biscuitville’s a.m. fare tastes a lot fresher with scratch biscuits, and eggs that taste like they were cracked out of a shell instead of poured from a jug.

I’m working my way through the breakfast menu and the lunch menu — next on the list is the BBQ Bruiser — but I’m really partial to the rum-butter muffins as a late-morning snack. It’s a heart-stopping (pun only partially intended) blast of intoxicating richness.

Opinion

Brian Clarey: Venison. We should probably all be eating venison on Thanksgiving instead of turkey. Here’s why: There are way too many deer roaming the fringes of our cities, and they’re free for the taking by anyone with a hunting license.

Deer is wild food — free range, grass fed, no hormones or antibiotics or any of that. Plus, it’s absolutely delicious — just ask Jorge Maturino, who took one down just a couple weeks ago and turned out a delicious venison rib roast. If it weren’t for my wife and daughter, who are unable to get over the Bambi hump, I’d be cooking up venison tenderloins on Turkey Day.

Eric Ginsburg: I don’t understand the question.

Biscuitville

News

always a good substitute and venison sounds phenomenal. The best holiday meal I’ve ever had was a lamb roast from Massey Farms, but that was for Christmas, so maybe it doesn’t count.

Up Front

It’s Turkey Time, at least in many households in this country.

But some people aren’t bird boosters and serve something else instead, be they vegetarians or whole hog champions. In the end, the deer defenders and pork partisans fought for the top spot — find out the results of our reader poll below.

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NEWS

Hundreds stand with Syrian refugees in Greensboro

by Eric Ginsburg

Hundreds turn out to a press conference and multicultural Thanksgiving to welcome Syrian refugees with open arms after a nationwide backlash following terrorist attacks in Paris.

Marikay Abuzuaiter can relate to the plight of refugees.

Standing on the stage at First Presbyterian Church with dozens of others on Monday night, the Greensboro city councilwoman told the hundreds of people in the audience that her great grandfather came to the United States as a refugee at age 3. And her husband Isa, who helped hold a banner reading “Welcome refugees and immigrants!” a few feet away, is a refugee too, Abuzuaiter said.

The press conference kicked off an annual multicultural Thanksgiving dinner, a free event organized by Greensboro nonprofit FaithAction International House designed to bring people together from different religious traditions and ethnic backgrounds to break bread together. This year’s dinner took on additional significance in the wake of anti-refugee sentiment sweeping the nation and directed at Syrians in particular following recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Abuzuaiter wasn’t the only one present who said she could understand the position of refugees. US Rep. Mark Walker, a pastor and Republican from Greensboro, stood near the entryway listening, but had to leave before the opening comments concluded.

Walker voted in favor of legislation last week that would limit Syrian refugees. But in an interview with Triad City Beat, Walker said he’d visited refugee camps on mission trips, adding, “I’m not anti-refugee.”

Walker, who appeared to be the only other elected official in the room besides Abuzuaiter and Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen, said he attended the event to listen to his constituents, regardless of whether he agrees with them.

“I appreciate the passion of the people coming out,” Walker said.

Walker said he wants to pause, not

kill, the Syrian refugee admittance process, saying there is a need to balance safety concerns with humanitarian efforts. In a meeting with Congress members, Walker said FBI Director James Comey acknowledged gaps in the refugee screening process, citing that as a primary reason that he voted for the legislation. CNN reported last week that Comey has “deep concerns” about the legislation passed by the US House of Representatives.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, French President Francois Hollande said the country would still accept the 30,000 refugees it committed to admitting. Walker said he is open to following that lead, but emphasized that he believes right now the United States needs to pause and reassess its program.

Speakers at the press conference, including Abuzuaiter, rejected the idea that Syrian refugees pose a security threat. Domestic terrorism is a bigger threat than refugees, Abuzuaiter said, and the next speaker, Wasif Qureshi with the Greensboro Islamic Center, echoed that sentiment. Some people are conflating all refugees and all Muslims with a very small group of terrorists, Qureshi said, but “Islam deplores all violence against innocent civilians” and a few terrorists shouldn’t be allowed to represent a religion with more than a billion adherents.

Rabbi Andy Koren, who is from Miami but is now at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, drew a correlation between treatment of Syrian refugees today to that of Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. In 1939, a ship carrying Jewish refugees was turned away from port in Miami, he said.

“America at that point should’ve opened its doors, but it didn’t,” Koren said, calling on the nation to learn from its history.

The religious call to welcome refugees is strong in Jewish and Christian traditions, he said, citing Jesus’ call to love God, love thy neighbor but also to love the stranger. And it isn’t just a passing mention — the subject is raised 39 times in the Bible, Koren said, making

Organizers tacked a press conference onto the beginning of a regularly-scheduled multicultural Thanksgiving dinner.

it a commandment and an “underlying theme.”

Local Christian faith leaders, a Syrian volunteer with Church World Service, a college professor and refugee service providers also addressed the crowd, which numbered anywhere from 350 to 500 attendees.

Following the comments from the stage and calls for people to contact elected officials to express support for immigrants and refugees, particularly Syrians, people lined up at three long tables filled with food from all over the world, including Cuba and Japan.

By chance, the multicultural Thanksgiving event had been scheduled about a week after Gov. Pat McCrory’s public comments that he doesn’t want to accept additional Syrian refugees into the state, a sentiment voiced by more than a dozen governors nationwide. Shortly afterwards, someone called in a threat to Church World Service in Greensboro and made comments about the organization’s refugee resettlement program aiding terrorists.

Church World Service’s Greensboro office director, Stephanie Elizabeth Adams, said the threat was directed to-

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wards staff members and didn’t explicitly mention Syrians. But Adams said the organization wouldn’t be deterred from helping refugees, and the next day, Nov. 18, welcomed a new refugee family at Piedmont Triad International airport.

Despite the threat and one other negative call, Adams said Church World Service has received “hundreds of positive, supportive calls” and offers to volunteer to help newly arrived Syrian refugees to the Triad.

The same level of outpouring was evident Monday night, as hundreds of people turned out to express their solidarity with Syrian refugees in particular. Organizers said the attendance far exceeded expectations, and volunteers were constantly setting up additional seating around the edge of the large room and scrounging for more silverware in order to accommodate the massive crowd.

This, Abuzuaiter said, is why Greensboro has been an ideal place for refugees to relocate. And with the help of city council, she said, she’ll do everything in her power to ensure the city stays that way.

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Arts council grants reach into the community in Winston-Salem

by Jordan Green

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County’s recent grant cycle represents an effort to fund a wide array of efforts that reach into diverse pockets of the community.

The elongated orb of glass gradually took shape into a vase as Rebeccah Byer immersed it in a red-hot furnace, then removed it and shaped the neck with a pair of pliers, lubricated with wax that made flames jump off the vessel.

She moved lightly but assuredly, keeping the vase even on a copper pipe as she transferred it in and out of the furnace. She periodically instructed assistant Quinten Matthews to blow on the pipe.

“Blow gently,” she said. “Stop.”

As Byer and Matthews demonstrated the art of glassmaking, Sarah Band chatted with visitors during a recent demonstration at the Olio studio and gallery on a Friday evening. The studio was open to the crisp November air at the West End Mill Works as diners bustled into the Porch Kitchen & Cantina for dinner and jukebox music carried across the parking lot from Hoots Roller Bar at the other end of the complex.

Byer and Band, respectively the executive director and creative director, are the primary artists at the Olio while Managing Director Lee Mecum operates the adjacent gallery.

From the start, when the Olio opened in September 2014, the nonprofit has been committed to nurturing the craft of glassmaking and teaching entrepreneurship through its apprentice program. The Olio takes apprentices as young as 14, but it’s the more experienced ones like Matthews — he’s been in the program for more than a year — who are entrusted as assistants on demo nights.

Now the Olio is expanding its teaching mission through a partnership with Youth in Transition, an agency that supports young people in the foster care system, thanks to a $4,000 grant from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County. Byer said the grant will cover the costs of six apprenticeships, with the first three or four participants coming on this week.

Glassblowing changed Byer’s life.

She found it when she was 19 years old and on academic probation because of failing grades. Describing her newfound avocation as being “like an immediate shift,” she said she feels lucky that her family supported her. It’s a challenging craft that requires years of practice to reach a basic level of proficiency. Byer said it took 10 years before she could work a piece of glass in the furnace without assistance, and after 20 years she still only considers herself “a mediocre glassblower.”

“I think the excitement behind the fire and the danger is a draw for young people,” she said. “It definitely was a draw for me. It was exciting and seriously magical. When you take glassblowing and use it as a therapeutic tool — which it can be, but you’re not calling it therapy — you’re making something and selling it. Glassblowing can be a career.”

The heat is one danger: The furnace runs at 2,075 degrees Fahrenheit. Cuts are another. The studio breaks up glass to recycle and small cuts are common.

The studio keeps plenty of Band-Aids on hand.

Byer cites Project Fire, a glassblowing initiative in Chicago for teenagers who have experienced violence-related trauma, as a model for what the Olio can do with the new grant from the arts council.

“We don’t have a huge gang problem here; we have an income-disparity problem, we have a racial-disparity problem, we have a hunger problem,” Byer said.

“If we can appeal to people who look at their lives as a little bit hopeless and give them something tangible as a solution to some of their life problems, then that’s a good start.”

The Olio’s $4,000 allocation is part of a total investment of $49,000 by the arts council for its Innovative Project Grants program for the 2015-2016 cycle. Other projects sharing the funding include the Hispanic Arts Initiative for a performance by Charlotte-based Orquesta Mayor and a dance competition next June, the New Winston Museum’s “WSFC Jukebox” to compile local music from the 1700s to the present, Bookmarks’ summer reading program for K-12 students, and a collaboration

Executive Director Rebeccah Byer and Creative Director Sarah Band demonstrated how to make glassware at the Olio.

between Old Salem and UNC School of the Arts to create a special lighting installation next year. The Innovative Projects Grants are a small part of the overall $1.8 million grant program.

The current grant cycle, which reached 109 recipients, represents the arts council’s continual effort to build in flexibility and meet a range of different needs and evolving opportunities across the community.

The grant cycle includes major institutional support to traditional players; $1.4 million, or more than three quarters goes to 14 recipients, including Old Salem Museums and Gardens, Piedmont Opera, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, RiverRun International Film Festival and Triad Stage. But the grant program also includes funds for annual events or series, including Phuzz Phest; arts in education projects ranging from a high school film production residency to bringing performances of “Peter and the Wolf ” to elementary schools; community enrichment initiatives like the Winston-Salem South Asian Film Festival, held in October, and the collaboration between photographers and homeless people leading to an exhibit next month at the

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Benton Convention Center. Additionally, the cycle includes $25,000 divided among 11 recipients for artist project grants, including to Wurlitzer Prize to record a new album of original songs, to Mark Donnell and Russell McCumber to apprentice respectively with a Commedia dell’arte mask maker and a master violinmaker, and to Luca Molnar to create a new series of paintings.

Not everyone who apprentices at the Olio will become a glassblower, Byer said.

“Some of them really take to the furnace,” she said. “Some of them are less interested in the furnace and more interested in the entrepreneurship aspect of it.”

Part of what the Olio teaches is how to cultivate the discipline to be an artist, while maintaining the savvy to make a living at it.

“With art, writing or music — anything you’re really passionate about — it’s hard to be a business person because that takes the fun out of it,” Byer said. “There’s that piece where we give people practical business skills. It takes years of working at something to get good at it. People who are good writers just don’t wake up being good writers.”

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Era of good feeling: Two cities pursue economic development

by Jordan Green

The elected bodies of Guilford County and the cities of Greensboro and High Point approve a plan to create a single economic development agency.

High Point City Council was a reluctant partner in early discussions with the city of Greensboro and Guilford County last summer about forming a joint economic development alliance.

But on Nov. 20, the three elected bodies gathered in the Guilford County BB&T Building in downtown Greensboro — the first time that anyone could remember them all being in the same room — and voted one after the other to form the Guilford County Economic Development Alliance. The votes of the Guilford County Commission and Greensboro City Council were unanimous, while High Point City Council voted 7-1 to approve the measure.

Councilwoman Cynthia Davis cast the lone dissenting vote.

“High Point has done so well in economic development, more so than Greensboro,” Mayor Pro Tem Jim Davis said after the vote. “We wanted to protect High Point’s interest and we didn’t want to be the red-headed stepchild.”

When the talks began last year, Davis was serving as mayor of High Point and Bill Bencini was chair of the county commission. Now, Bencini is the mayor of High Point and Hank Henning is the chair of the county commission.

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan has been the only constant player in the negotiations.

Davis said what won him over to the partnership, in addition to High Point Economic Development Corp. President Loren Hill’s enthusiasm, was the fluid nature of the workforce. He cited the presence of Caterpillar in Winston-Salem as an example.

“High Point benefits from that,” he said. “A lot of people who work there live in High Point. Just like Polo Ralph Lauren in High Point — a lot of people come from Winston-Salem to work there.”

Elected officials touted the joint economic development alliance as a way for the county and its two cities to speak

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, Guilford County Commission Chairman Hank Henning and High Point Mayor Bill Bencini introduced a new economic development alliance on Nov. 20.

with one voice to companies considering expansion.

“When a business comes here, they’re concerned with the community and the quality of life,” County Commission Chairman Hank Henning said. “They don’t care about the jurisdiction. They want to do what’s best for their business and their customers.”

County Manager Marty Lawing said the agency will allow Guilford County to compete more effectively.

“Economic development is very important and it’s very competitive,” he said. “It drives everything we do as far as tax base. It’s kind of like public speaking: You can’t be too good at it. You have to always be on you’re A-game.”

Loren Hill and Brent Christensen, who lead the cities’ respective economic development agencies, drew up the plans for the new joint agency, which will have a budget of $300,000 to cover the cost of marketing materials and one staff person responsible for research.

The county and the two cities will contribute $100,000 each to fund the agency. Lawing said the new agency will target companies that have plans to expand in the next one to three years.

“It allows the Greensboro Partnership and the High Point Economic Development Corp. to retain autonomy but requires them to work so closely that it may appear to outsiders that they’re one

group,” Lawing said.

High Point Councilwoman Cynthia Davis, who cast the lone vote against the collaboration, said she had a long list of questions that had not been answered, including whether a “rapid response team” would include elected officials other than the mayors; what the agency’s one staff member would earn; how much would be budgeted for software, marketing and travel; and whether the other towns in Guilford County had been included in discussions.

Elected officials who represent high-poverty areas of Greensboro and High Point expressed concern about whether their districts would receive equitable marketing by the county agency.

After proclaiming that it was a “banner day” for Greensboro, District 1 Councilwoman Sharon Hightower said, “This marketing piece is going to be instrumental to make sure we’re going to be included.”

Councilman Chris Williams, who represents Ward 2 in southeast High Point, remarked, “I represent one of the hardest hit areas in the state — hit hardest with blight and joblessness. So I’m very excited by this. All of us during the campaign promised jobs and economic development, so I see this as fulfilling the promise.”

Councilman Jeff Golden, who represents Ward 1 in east-central High Point, riffed off Williams’ sentiment.

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“You go into this and make promises of economic development, and it doesn’t come true,” he said. “So at least today we can say we started a movement.”

County Commissioner Ray Trapp, whose district overlaps with Hightower’s city council district, said he views the new economic development agency as being responsible for landing “big-picture,” or large-scale employers, while the municipalities continue to court smaller players.

“When the Randolph-Guilford mega-site lands that one big fish, it creates the opportunity for ancillary services and suppliers,” he said. “We have tons of unused warehouse space in east Greensboro. People who know their history know the water is in the east.

The growth has to happen in the east.

We’re there and we’re waiting. You get the car manufacturer at the mega-site, we’re ready to have seat manufacturing or upholstering on Bessemer Avenue or East Market Street.”

Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann, who represents the west-central District 4 on Greensboro City Council, expressed the enthusiasm of many elected officials in the room.

“We live in a global economy today,” she said. “We can’t build fences around jurisdictions.”

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Straight outta GOP They had their chance.

In the face of their party’s hijacking by extreme elements, often detached from what we journalists call “reality,” the Republican Party has chosen to wall itself off from most Americans rather than deal with our insistence on liberty and freedom.

In the scrum that’s formed around the 2016 presidential nomination process, the party faithful has elevated the most clueless candidate in many generations in Dr. Ben Carson, who lacks even the most basic understanding of history and global politics. He’s polling at 22 percent, 10 points behind angry blowhard Donald Trump, who has sounded so much like Adolf Hitler in the last week that newspapers like this one are calling off moratoriums on comparing things to the rise of the Nazi regime and suspending the benefit of the doubt when it comes to GOP candidates.

Trump’s suggestions that we create a registry of American Muslims, his false memory of Arabs celebrating in Jersey City, NJ on 9/11, his suggestion to bring back waterboarding and his abject, xenophobic fearmongering should be enough to turn off any and all rational Republicans left in the ranks.

But that’s not what is happening.

After his incendiary and provably false remarks in the wake of the Paris attack, Trump’s numbers among Republicans actually went up, regaining an edge lost to Carson earlier in the fall. And now, like lemmings — or lab monkeys that have undergone shock treatments — they’re all doing it.

This plague of ignorance among the GOP has manifested in North Carolina, where Gov. Pat McCrory is attempting to thwart the laws of the United States by requesting that no Syrian refugees, no matter their age or gender, be admitted into our state — a state that, some will tell you, is a beacon of Christian values.

But that must not be true, because McCrory’s 2016 Democrat challenger, Attorney General Roy Cooper, also suggested that we do the exact opposite of what the Bible, the Statue of Liberty and the law say we should do with victims of war and its attendant suffering: Keep them out.

It says a lot about the way these two men view the electorate of our state, which to them seems to only espouse Christian values rather than actually live into them.

What it says about us, the actual people of the great state of North Carolina, won’t be evident until Election Day.

CITIZEN GREEN

Nelson Johnson: The agitator becomes the conciliator The Rev. Nelson Johnson has probably been waiting 30 years for a moment when his would not be the most strident, militant voice in the room.

The fellowship hall at Shiloh Baptist Church on the evening of Nov. 18 vibrated with anger and

by Jordan Green hope — that rare feeling of not only desiring change but believing there is a ghost of a chance of achieving it.

The group dynamics were a community organizer’s dream: a collective welling up of determination and creativity springing organically from the conditions of the community, so that the organizer can fade into the background and become redundant to the process. There was the plumber who eloquently opined that police work for the citizens, and they should be fired, along with the chief and city manager, if they trample on the citizens’ rights. There was the young man who said, “We can’t beg for the devil to change his tactics. We have to recognize that we are all God’s children.”

And there was Taryn Muhammad, dressed modestly in a hijab, who stood face to face with Mayor Nancy Vaughan and asked whether there was a timeframe for implementing reforms in the police department.

“I wouldn’t say that there is a date-specific timeframe, but it is with all deliberate speed,” Vaughan answered after an uncomfortable silence. (The mayor may not have been aware that the phrase “all deliberate speed” comes from the US Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and Greensboro public schools ran out the clock, taking 17 years to implement the 1954 court order.)

“Now this is the problem with not having a date-specific timeline,” Muhammad said. “The problem is that for 50 years our community has absolutely said these things were going on. And for 50 years our community was told that, absolutely these things are not going on. You all have some bad people out there, and that’s why we need these big policemen — because they’re here to deal with the bad people. And like I told you directly: We hear about the good police, but I want to talk about all of the good people that don’t need to be over-policed. And we need a timeframe to stop overzealous policing.”

Until recently, the Rev. Johnson’s relationship with the city’s political establishment could best be described as strained.

He once called former mayor Jim Melvin a “dog.” But this past April, he and Mayor Vaughan stood in the back of an auditorium during a volatile community meeting at Bennett College, each worried that the city they love was coming apart at the seams. They started meeting every Monday at 8 a.m., and each invited 10 people to what became known as the Community-City Working Group.

Now, eight months later, in the fellowship hall at Shiloh Baptist Church, the working group was unveiling four proposals.

With three other city council members in the room, their group called on city council to take immediate action to implement changes in policing, including halting the practice of “contact” policing, described as “a disguised form of racial profiling”; doing away with the charge of resisting arrest without an underlying offense; de-prioritizing marijuana possession as a justification for over-arresting young black males; and revamping anti-bias training.

Not everyone was happy with the process. April Parker, a leader of Greensboro Black Lives Matter, charged that young, working-class people had been excluded from the dialogue.

She then proceeded to list a handful of additional requests: a public apology from the city for the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, the removal of the city manager and police chief, eliminating police surveillance of social media and moving the meetings to a time when people with 9-5 jobs can attend.

Towards the end of the public discussion portion of the program, a white woman offered a “small, pragmatic suggestion” to consolidate the requests of Black Lives Matter with the four changes proposed by the Community-City Working Group and submit it to city council with a timeline.

The proposal to expand the list received a hearty endorsement from the Rev. Daran Mitchell.

“My sister, you actually stole my thunder,” he said. “That’s the reason I stood.” He echoed her call for a timeline and suggested a “collaboration,” arguing both for a comprehensive agenda and cooperation. He concluded, “Therefore, I’m calling on Rev. Nelson Johnson to call us together to make a decision before we leave here tonight.”

Johnson seemed to stall for time. In that moment, he might have capitalized on the spirit of militancy that had seized the room and put the comprehensive list of demands to a vote.

Whatever his personal feelings, there’s no greater political cover than the will of the people. But he pulled back.

“The world is fractured and divided,” Johnson said. “And actually it’s the easiest thing to do — to divide ourselves. It’s hard to push and respect everybody. And I want to do that.

And I want to say how much I appreciate the voices tonight — all the voices.

“There’s a space for anger; there’s a space for being urgent, you know,” he continued. “But, actually, there’s a space for deliberation, there’s a space for pulling yourself together, there’s a space for thinking through stuff. So to take the Black Lives Matter list tonight, I think we need to receive it, and sit down with it and work with it.”

Johnson called for a vote on the four original proposals while deferring the Black Lives Matter request for further discussion. The “ayes” resounded through the room.

And before anyone noticed that the “nays” had not been polled, Johnson called up a singer to close the meeting with a hymn.

Conflict reenactments

Why colleges are not neutral spaces

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Over the past few weeks, capstone course when he had no knowledge of my I’ve noticed a glut of artiresearch, my work or my topic. He also did this in front of cles, think pieces and casual the entire class.

Facebook soapbox posts • The Confederate flag that hung largely and proudly after Mizzou, Yale and other in the apartment living room across from mine during my student uprisings. These junior year. articles chastise students at This is the short list of things that have happened at elite universities for daring to Guilford College, the perfectly liberal, Quaker bubble.

by Chelsea Yarborough take issue with racism on their This also does not encompass the rampant queer phobia, campuses. The core argument of these pieces are that xenophobia, cissexism, and violent white supremacy that we Millennials are coddled: We are willing to sacrifice my school and others display.. academic freedom for our own comfort, will never know The bottom line is this — colleges and universities are how to engage with the “other side” because we refuse not neutral spaces. They are products of a racist, white to have a conversation with them, and we really have supremacist society, institutions built for white, straight no reason to protest! We are able to attend some of the land-owning men by other white straight, land-owning most elite schools in the world, so what could we possibly men on stolen indigenous land. My black body in all have to complain about? of its intricacies was not who the university system was The exact trouble with the line of thinking that says, designed for.

“You go to a prestigious college, you don’t know real All marginalized bodies in spaces not made for them oppression,” is that it’s false. Full stop. Racism is usually are disruptions. And when the flow of the status quo is painted as the redneck white man with a Confederate disrupted, the system works to negate disruptive bodies flag, but it is also the professor in your by pushing us out. To let the discriminadepartment, the admissions counselor, the tion, oppression and injustices that occur college administration. Oppression thrives All marginalized (yes, even the ones that happen at Guilon college campuses partly because peoford College) fly under the radar of the bodies in spaces ple refuse to look past the liberal veneer liberal veneer of the college environment of college as a great equalizer. not made for them does none of us any good.

At my own school, I heard this same The forums that the administration are disruptions. logic — the logic of “Guilford College is organizes, the tears of white guilt and the – Chelsea Yarborough such a loving liberal place where none “I can’t believe this would happen here” of the isms could ever happen” time and attitude voiced in unison by well-meaning time again when in fact students like me people are Band-Aids that we’ve carelesshave experienced those ugly isms invading our perfect ly laid onto festering, oozing blisters. little liberal arts bubble. I’ll list a few for you here: Going to a prestigious college or university does not • While reading Celia: A Slave in my US History automatically exempt you from institutional isms-and course, my white male professor with a PhD in Afriyes, your university or college is complicit in upholding can-American history told our class that if this story them. Simple discussion and being nice to each other will about rape and murder couldn’t interest us in history, he not cure America of its sickness. People should not be didn’t know what would. Celia: A Slave details the life grateful to be accepted into spaces that were not made of a young slave girl who is bought by an older white for them, places that put them into incredible amounts slave owner for sex. She not only experiences abuse at of debt and that prioritize them only when they can be his hands, but at the hands of his wife and daughter. She put on the front page of a marketing brochure. If colleges eventually murders him after years of sexual abuse. and universities want to treat students as consumers, the • The same professor told me I was “projecting a customer is always right. new analysis onto history” when he asserted that Sally Don’t be so surprised when dissatisfied customers Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson were in a consensual speak up. relationship and I attempted to correct him.

• “Justice for Eric Garner” and “Justice for Michael Chelsea Yarborough is a recent graduate of Guilford Brown” posters I put up alongside other students were College and concerned alum who now resides in Washingvandalized, and racist and antagonistic comments about ton, DC. posters and protests on campus were posted on Yik Yak. • Being called “Harriet Tubman” by a student during a midnight fire-alarm scare because I ran outside with my hair still wrapped up in my silk scarf.

• When an older white man attempted to correct me during a practice run of a final presentation for my history

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by Daniel Wirtheim Our battles — the friction between two opposing moral entities — can tell us a lot about the people we are. It’s along those lines that every March a group of

by Eric Ginsburg volunteers dressed in 18th Century battle gear march upon Greensboro’s national military park to reenact the Battle of Guildford Courthouse. It’s a Guilford County origin story, a cultural celebration of sorts for Nathanael Greene, the general whose name inspired a Triad city and later a brewery.

The practice of battle reenactment is a fully immersive art that requires public participation and an understanding of the historical implications for such conflicts. For the most part, the mock battles have been designated to old wars and I haven’t seen anyone take on the little conflicts or small battles that There’s nothing to say just as much, if be lost in trying to not more, about our cities today. understand one What about the another’s point of battle for racial inteview. gration, or the battle for more workers’ – Daniel Wirtheim rights? These sometimes violent and deeply emotional battles tell a story far more relevant to the current state of our cities than an 18th Century war. Sure they’re ugly, which is probably why no one’s done this type of thing before, but hiding from a racist or unjust past is not helping anyone. Reenacting a conflict could helps us better understand ourselves as well as our villainous entities.

Hundreds of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse actors are playing British soldiers, and that means doing extensive research on the colonial force’s mindset.

When we literally put on the shoes of an enemy, we might begin to understand that person’s motivation.

A cop might have something to learn from playing a protestor and likewise. There’s nothing to be lost in trying to understand one another’s point of view.

It might start as a conceptual art project, just a few friends reenacting a violent protest before moving onto more elaborate scenes like a family’s battle to keep their home in the face of gentrification. The format of battle reenacting can fit the shape of any conflict, big or small. The idea being that reliving a struggle through another’s eyes might be the way to better understand the discord.

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It’s part of our mission at Triad City Beat to help elevate local businesses and champion the things that are unique to our cities. And there’s no better time to demonstrate it than the holiday season, when most of us spend more of our disposable income than in the rest of the year combined.

Increasingly, the way we vote with our dollars is becoming the most important voice we have.

We’ve all seen the memes: Spending money locally keeps our dollars in our own corner of the economy. It benefits our friends and neighbors rather than faceless corporations. And it’s an investment in the culture in which we all participate.

You can’t buy your way into the TCB Local Gift Guide — it’s strictly the purview of our editors, and not our advertising department, to curate this list of the very best from local businesses, local makers and local performers.

It matters, we think, just as it matters to spend locally this holiday season.

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Chakras Salon & Spa, 229 S. Elm St., chakrasspa. com Spa offerings include massage, mani/pedi, facials, waxing and any combination in a package.

Grandover Resort, 1000 Club Road, grandover.com At the luxury resort, overnight spa packages come with a room and a round of golf. Day packages include massage with volcanic stones.

Progressions Salon & Spa, 2008 New Garden Road, progressionssalonandspa .com The usual slate of deep-tissue, hot stone, sports and prenatal massage are complemented by a menu of men’s treatments (back facial!), bride and groom care and day packages that start at around $100.

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Sometimes the best gift is a little self-indulgence. Massages, skin treatments, manicures, hair care and other personal luxuries offer a way to decompress after a busy holiday season. There are more than 100 locally owned salons and spas in the Triad. Here are a few of our editors’ suggestions.

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Allure Salon & Day Spa, 420 Jonestown Road, alluredayspa.net All the basic hair, nail skin and massage treatments with combination packages.

The Breathing Room, 918 Bridge St. NW, thebreathingroomws.org Traditional massage and yoga gives way to intuitive tarot and astrological readings, oil therapy, reiki, life coaching, music therapy and music lessons.

Glass Door Salon & Spa, 460 N. Cherry St., glassdoorsalon.com Beyond massage and facials, Glass Door has a line of body wraps that include green coffee (for cellulite), Moor mud (healing with micronutrients) and seaweed (detox).

Lamberti’s Salon & Spa, 50 Miller St., lambertis.net The home of the pumpkin scrub manicure.

Ma’ati Spa, 707 N. Main St., maatispa.com Spa services with a holistic bent, Ma’ati offers hypnotherapy, yoni steam and reiki along with more traditional services.

Black Friday Really, Really Free Market @ Grove Street and Glenwood Avenue (GSO), 11 a.m.

While everybody else braves the Black Friday crowds to spend their cash as fast as they can, the crew in Glenwood is giving it all away. The Really, Really Free Market is exactly as it sounds: Everything is for the taking. And if you’ve got any good stuff lying around, they’ll take that too. Get there early for the best pickings; it’s all over by 3 p.m.

HIGH POINT

Avantí Salon & Spa, 379 Samet Drive, High Point ava lonandspa.com Massages include hot stone, prenatal and hydrothera intense underwater massage, as well as reflexology for and aromatherapy for the senses.

Chevalrie Salon & Spa, 3710 N. Main St., chevalriesal This Aveda salon offers wine and hors d’oeuvres with packages.

Paul Anthony for Men, 3793 Samet Drive, paulanthon men.com A “barber spa” strictly for men, Paul Anthony may be only salon in the Triad offering straight-razor shaves, wi towels.

Saturday, Nov. 28 Handmade for the Holidays @ Deep Roots Market (GSO), 10 a.m.

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It would be hard for any recording to meet or exceed the bar set in 2014 by Jeffrey Dean Foster, T0w3rs and Molly McGinn with their near-perfect releases, but scratch the surface and there’s plenty of buried musical treasure in the Piedmont Triad from this year’s yield.

In no particular order, here’s a rundown of new albums by groups from Winston-Salem, Greensboro and, yes, High Point, with one or two extras thrown in for good measure to acknowledge artists or producers with local roots.

Daddy Issues stole a lot of hearts during their meteoric, two-year career, ending with their disbandment a few months ago. But the infectious Greensboro punk outfit, aptly described by one critic as riot grrrl with a sunny, southern California feel, left a startlingly impressive full-length album, F*** Marry Kill as a last will and testament, ranging from the action-ready “Pissed” to the melancholy “Wild Thing.” (Get it at daddyissuesnc.bandcamp.com.)

Rhiannon Giddens is an artist of national stature who happens to be from Guilford County and reside in Greensboro. After almost a decade of recording and touring with the acclaimed Carolina Chocolate Drops, Giddens’ profile rose dramatically with her turn at a concert at New York City’s Town Hall to celebrate the music of Inside Llewyn Davis. Producer T-Bone Burnett discovered her there and recruited her to join Elvis Costello, Jim James, Marcus Mumford and Taylor Goldsmith for a reworking of Bob Dylan and the Band’s legendary “Basement Tapes” sessions. Giddens’ solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, also produced by Burnett, puts her squarely in the spotlight, curating songs from a wide stylistic range that were either written or interpreted by women.

If Tomorrow Is My Turn isn’t enough, Factory Girl, a five-song EP with additional material from the Burnett sessions, hits stores on Black Friday. (Both albums are released by Nonesuch Records, and are available at nonesuch.com.)

Doug Davis defines what it means to be a pro musician in the Winston-Salem music scene, and with a repertoire of hundreds of songs, he’s able to fill any bill in the various cover bands he plays in. But he’s also a peerless songwriter with a raspy, soulful voice, who periodically applies his tools to his original material with his band the Solid Citizens. “Shiloh” and “Gold Leaf and Old Virginia Pine,” which respectively open and close

W-S) e Triad’s two biggest cities, with action centering ted to — Elm Street in Greensboro and Sixth and on-Salem. It’s a fantastic opportunity to buy local rtisans and schmooze on the streets. Galleries, shops, d even the sidewalks will have special holiday offerings.

When the Lilies Bloom, provide a fair sense of the kind of refined Southern rock with a pop sensibility at which Davis excels. (Get it at cdbaby.com/cd/dougdavis2.)

Dildo of God mixes bemused raps, trippy sonics and terse social commentary. (Get their EP, “Dog Food Lid,” and single “All Yanitas” at dildoofgod.bandcamp.com.)

The Greensboro husband-and-wife duo Daniel and Lauren Goans, who perform as Lowland Hum, seemed to come out of nowhere in late 2013, and quickly established a national profile with relentless touring and prolific songwriting. Their intimate lyricism, which seems ripped from the pages of the young couple’s daily life, transmits as a chamber-folk sound that comes across as bigger than what you might expect from two musicians.

(Their self-titled sophomore album, along with their debut LP and 2014 EP, are available at lowlandhum. bandcamp.com.)

Foxture effortlessly mixes indie rock with modern R&B, which makes the young quartet perfect ambassadors for Triad scene unity. The elegant artwork by Kendall Doub on the cover of their new EP, Circles, completes the loop, so to speak. (Get it at fixture. bandcamp.com.)

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Winston-Salem’s Aquatic Ceremony arose from the merger of vocalist Amy Fitzgerald’s poetry and the ambient experimentalism of Matt Cooley, Eric Glenn and Chad McHenry. Their self-titled EP came out in January. (Get it at aquaticceremony.bandcamp.com.)

Wolves & Wolves & Wolves & Wolves from Winston-Salem has logged countless miles on the road establishing a reputation for gruff, melodic hardcore-punk. If they haven’t landed a spot on the Vans Warped tour yet, then it’s high time. (Their four-song EP, released in September, is available at wolveswolveswolveswolves.bandcamp.com.)

Clay Howard has a knack for radio-friendly guitar power-pop in the vein of Cheap Trick and Badfinger.

That’s not to knock Howard’s music — commercial radio didn’t always suck. Best known for his work with Stratocruiser, the guitarist-singer-songwriter makes light of his relative obscurity on his new album, Who the Hell Is Clay Howard? (Get a copy at stratoclay.wix. com.)

If you came of age during North Carolina’s golden age of indie rock in the early 1990s (name-check Superchunk, Polvo and Archers of Loaf), the Greensboro band the Kneads nicely captures that noisy and tuneful zeitgeist of intelligent, youthful rebellion. They’re dad rock for big kids who aren’t quite comfortable adjusting to adult conventions. (Get Letting You Let Me Down at thekneads.bandcamp.com.)

A amalgamation of indie-rock studio musicians from Randy Seals’ On Pop of the World Studios in Greensboro with emcee Eric Murphy and vocalist Dottie Na$h,

Winter Indie Market @ South Elm Street and MLK Jr. Drive (GSO), 5 p.m.

Greensboro’s long-running Indie Market sets up in the parking lot along MLK with a quarter-acre of locally made goods.

Robin Doby & the Stovepipes developed a reputation for scintillating shows as a soul-blues cover band in the Greensboro bar scene back in the day. Besides sharing the same lead singer, who now goes by Robin Easter, Doby is a whole different venture, with original material and a soul-funk sound that owes more to Mother’s Finest than Eddie Floyd. (Get Doby’s self-titled debut album at dobymusic.com.)

The Luxuriant Sedans is a Triad super-group of vintage rock ’n’ rollers and blues cats. If you appreciate the raunch of the Rolling Stones in their “Stray Cat Blues” phase and you don’t mind some mileage, then the Luxuriant Sedans’ Born Certified might be the ride for you. All accomplished players, Mike Wesolowski, Ed Bumgardner, Rob Slater, Gino Grandinetti and Bob Tarleton have the advantage of knowing that the vehicle runs best when all the parts work together. (Get the album at itunes.apple.com.)

Holiday Bazaar @ Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (W-S), reception at 5 p.m.

Hopping on Winston-Salem’s First Friday is an amalgamation of three markets from last year put on by Sawtooth, Bookmarks and the Milton Rhodes Center.

This year will feature an opening reception, a book talk form author Charlie Lovett and a performance on the upstairs stage to go along with a literary holiday offering.

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Ahhh food, the gift that gives us life. Whether it’s a welcome midday relief from annoyances of the office or the memory of a family holiday tradition, there are few things as precious as food. Chances are good that you know what your loved ones daydream about eating, and unlike a lot of the gifts your grandma might usually give you, it’s pretty easy to ensure that a food gift isn’t going to waste. Here are just a few of the countless array of food-related things you could buy someone this holiday season, so check in about your cousin’s allergies and then dig in.

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Deep Roots membership, 600 N. Eugene St., deeprootsmarket.coop Socks, ties, trinkets and novelty items are nice, but you know what a lot of people actually want?

A discount on groceries. Buy someone you love a membership at Deep Roots Market, the locally owned cooperative grocery store in Greensboro, for $100 or four installments of $25. The ownership share in the co-op covers an entire household, for life.

Hops + Nuts, hopsandnuts.com Bourbon-beer pretzels. Need I say more? These affordable morsels, like the Lager N Lime peanuts or the Blonde Brittle, are a solid choice for anyone who loves beer but also a safe bet for that someone you don’t know so well, like your nephew who’s in college now and is too cool to talk to anyone these days.

Dinner date Greensboro-based culinary clubs Ethnosh and Dinner with a Side of Culture are both hosting their next events on Friday at Quisqueya Dominican restaurant and Café Europa respectively. Maybe you have to work on Christmas, and your family is celebrating early enough that this makes sense as a seasonal gesture, but chances are you’re better off writing a handmade voucher vowing to take your Christmas Miracle to a future event.

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Joyce Farms, 4787 Kinnamon Rd., joyce-farms.com They say the way to the heart is through the stomach, and if you’ve got a carnivorous foodie in your life, Joyce Farms has you covered. With options from

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Saturday, Dec. 5 Harmony Marketplace @ Arcadia Lodge (HP), 9 a.m.

The first in a series of pop-up markets at the farm, B&B and co-op that is Arcadia Lodge. The local and cruelty-free market includes memberships to the food-buyers club, vintage and handmade crafts, performances, demos and whatever else they can bring together. Find the Harmony Marketplace Facebook page for more.

apple-raisin chicken sausages for $9.50 to a whole ribeye or beef tenderloin for $180, you’re bound to find something that will make their eyes light up like that pine tree in your living room.

Twin City Hive, 301 Brookstown Ave., twincityhive. com (W-S) This coffeeshop dedicated several shelves to local and regional gifts, including chocolate and cards.

Whether you’re looking for coffee or candles, Twin City Hive is bound to have some of the stocking stuffers you need.

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Cooking classes Chances are high that there’s someone in your life who’s been saying they want to become a better cook, maybe for years. Sign them up for a “Boot Camp” cooking class at the Stocked Pot (381 Jonestown Road, W-S or thestockedpot.com). In Greensboro, give someone the gift of one or three cooking lessons from Print Works Bistro (702 Green Valley Road, GSO or printworksbistro.com).

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The Three Cities boast eight breweries, and more recently two distilleries, each with a unique gifting opportunity. Here are the best choices from each, starting with the distilleries. If none of them speak to you, look into a gift card to your gift recipient’s favorite local bar or bottle shop.

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Sutler’s Spirit, 840 Mill Works St., sutlersspiritco.com The blacked-out ceramic bottles of Sutler’s gin are beautiful; tie a ribbon around the bottleneck and call it a day. If you need something a little different, consider a copper Moscow mule-style mug with matching shot glasses etched with the distillery’s logo, or snag a set of short tumbler glasses.

Broad Branch, 756 N. Trade St., broadbranchdistillery.com The Triad’s distilleries both offer tours, and given Broad Branch’s proximity to Black Mountain Chocolate factory, take someone out for a double tour, capping the experience off with some dark chocolate and whiskey to go.

Foothills, 638 W. Fourth St., foothillsbrewing.com Welcome to Hop City. Winston-Salem’s beer institution is known for its IPA-style beers, especially the Jade IPA and Hoppyum. Foothills’ IPA of the Month series ends in December, so buy a big bottle from October, November and December and present your loved one with a bundle of joy.

Hoots, 840 Mill Works St., hootspublic.com The best thing to buy from Hoots for your Hanukkah Honey may be a T-shirt with the brewery’s logo; it’s gorgeous. Hoots recently released additional apparel options, including a shirt repping their Gashopper IPA, but unless you’re shopping for someone who’s previously endorsed a specific brew here, go with the more general choice.

A CSA share You’re gonna need deep pockets for this one.

But just in case you’re a local high roller, you could buy someone a seasonal membership in a Community-Supported Agriculture, or CSA, program. A season with Sungold Farm in Winston-Salem costs $500 and at Wild Persimmon Farm in Greensboro, it’s six Ben Franklins (though you could also purchase a half season for $300). And hey, if you’ve got that kind of cash to drop, we’d like to talk to you about advertising….

Cobblestone Pop-Up @ Mary’s Gourmet Diner (W-S), 9 a.m.

The famed farmers market group hosts a pop-up on the patio at Mary’s with an eye towards high gifting season. All the usual fare will be on hand, plus some seasonal goodies in time for the holidays.

Small Batch, 241 W. Fifth St., smallbatchws.com This 2-year-old brewery is the Triad’s smallest, and only bottles a few of its products. But stop by Small Batch and peruse its bombers, or see if the folks there will sell you some of the brewery’s sweet specialized pint glasses — Small Batch releases a newly designed glass each month.

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Gibb’s Hundred, 117 W. Lewis St., gibbshundred.com Gibb’s got growler game. Unless you’d rather give someone a Gibb’s hoodie or beer can-style glass, fill a growler with the brewery’s fantastic Berliner weisse or award-winning ESB. Figure out what type of beer your giftee prefers, and aim for that.

Holiday Craft Bazaar @ Oakview Recreation Center (HP), 9 a.m.

It’s an old-school country Christmas craft fair in High Point, with pottery, woodcraft, handmade clothes, toys and, possibly, pinecone wreaths.

Uptowne Holiday Stroll @ N. Main St. (HP), 10 a.m.

The annual Christmas promenade brings out most of the city, and has even been known to lure people in from other urban centers. The street fair features holiday open houses along the thoroughfare, carolers, carriage rides and performances.

It ends at 4 p.m.

The journalists, novelists and academics who contribute to the aggregate picture of the Gate City in 27 Views of Greensboro create the impression of a place that’s always been both fractured and diverse. There’s the old Greensboro, as portrayed by Logie Meachum’s reminiscence about the ’60s R&B stars who stayed at the segregated Magnolia Hotel or Diya Abdo’s reflecting on life as a Palestinian-American mother and academic in a city where the rarest of Arabic delicacies can be found at Super G Mart and a particular apartment complex is known as Saudi Central. Contributions from Fred Chappell, Michael Parker, Ed Cone, Lorraine Ahearn, Allen Johnson, Jeri Rowe and Valerie Nieman fill out this volume. (Get a copy at amazon.com.)

Upstairs at Natty Greene’s downtown brewpub earlier this year.

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Natty Greene’s, 1918 W. Gate City Blvd., nattygreenes.com Check out the Bunker across from the Coliseum and pick up a couple of larger, more expensive bottles from Natty Greene’s sour program, like the Hitchpost Gueuze Lambic. Natty’s also sells T-shirts, which are easier to come by during a weekly special at the downtown brewpub.

Pig Pounder, 1107 Grecade St., website (GSO) This pinked-out brewhouse sells beers in 32 and 64-ounce growlers, and offers pint glasses, too. Soon, Pig Pounder will put out 22-ounce bombers of its bourbon barrel-aged barleywine called Barbieswine, which it argues is “a perfect Christmas present.”

Preyer, 600 Battleground Ave., pigpounder.com Greensboro’s newest brewery recently introduced a “crowler” canning system, allowing you to score 32-ounce cans of any of Preyer’s beers. The choices run the spectrum from a strawberry wheat to a pumpkin imperial stout or a red IPA.

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Liberty, 914 Mall Loop Road, libertysteakhouseandbrewery. com No other brewery in the Triad can claim an affiliation with a steakhouse, so make this one a dinner and drinks with a nice night out to the High Point brewery and restaurant. If the gift isn’t for a date, but maybe an in-law, consider a gift card.

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Non-alcoholic The Triad brags plenty of non-alcoholic options as well, ranging from Krankies Coffee to Small Batch Kombucha (available at Urban Grinders in Greensboro). Maybe your fatherin-law is more of a tea person — Vida Pour Tea in Greensboro has you covered — and bloody Mary mix from Jody Morphis (available at Blue Denim in downtown Greensboro) might be just right for your aunt. And who wouldn’t be excited about some drinking chocolate from Black Mountain Chocolate in Winston-Salem?

Sunday, Dec. 6 Made 4 Market @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market (GSO), 8 a.m.

A special one-off from the GFCM gets so crowded that early-bird VIP passes are available at gsofarmersmarket.org.

Buffalo, NY is the setting for Greg Shemkovitz’s debut novel, but the Elon University creative-writing teacher lives in Greensboro and wrote the first draft of Lot Boy as his MFA thesis at UNCG. The engrossing novel, a brisk read at 265 pages, tells the story of Eddie Lanning, a maladjusted teenage sociopath — aren’t they all? — who grows up in the culturally confined world of a Ford dealership and embarks on a path of fraud and petty crime as he seeks to sort out his relationship with his ailing father. (Visit sunnyoutside.com to buy a copy.)

If there’s an uncle in the family who loves John Prine or is otherwise enamored with the early ’70s troubadours who laid the groundwork for Americana, then you most definitely can’t go wrong with Burlington music writer Eddie Huffman’s unauthorized biography.

The subject declined to cooperate for John Prine: In Spite of Himself, but there was plenty of archival material available to flesh out the biography of one of the most revealing, literary singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. (Get your copy at utexaspress.com.)

Poems about suicide from various vantage points may not exactly summon the requisite holiday cheer, but then again for a particular kind of recipient — maybe a friend in recovery who likes to keep things real as everyone else takes leave of their sanity — Rebecca Foust’s Paradise Drive might be just the thing. “Tell me… where to find/ the manual that tells how to respond/ to the loved child who from his snug bed/ whispers, I wish I were dead, Mom?/ Tell me, Dr. Spock, what do about that,/what does a mother f***ing do about that?” Foust writes in one of the poems in this collection published by Press 53.

That’s just one example of the heavy lifting that the Winston-Salem publishing house is known for.

Shrimp was a fitting topic for Chef Jay Pierce earlier this year when he was running the show at Rocksalt, Charlotte’s sustainable seafood restaurant; he’s since returned to Greensboro to serve as head chef at the Marshall Free House. There are recipes for every meal and occasion in this cookbook, which is part of the Savor the South series. But the introduction, which includes a history of the shrimping industry on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts along with Pierce’s reminiscences of hauls with his family, might be the most compelling part of the book. If you know someone who is a fan of Pierce’s cuisine — and they’re an intensely loyal cohort — they need this book.

(Visit uncpress.unc.edu to order your copy.)

No less substantial, though probably more hospitable, is Hotel Worthy, a collection of poems by Greensboro’s Valerie Nieman. “The Guide: Cave Paintings at Font de Gaume” provides a good example of Nieman’s gifts for observation and perspective: “Ignore those childish scratchings,/ please. See the mammoth, here,/ the aurochs’ curving horns./ So long ago, yet those artists understood/ perspective; this leg is clearly behind that one./ How long until we learned that again?/ Centuries.” (Visit press53.com to peruse Paradise Drive, Hotel Worthy and other titles.)

Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford, two Triad-raised political radicals who now live in Durham are the authors of Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South. Published by a California-based anarchist press, the collection tells seven stories from a slave rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp and the coalfields of eastern Tennessee to a 1975 uprising at NC Correctional Center for Women. (Order it at akpress.org.)

Friday-Saturday, Dec. 12-13 Pokez Holiday Market @ 874 N. Liberty St. (W-S), 11 a.m.

The crew from Hoots Flea Market brings you this indoor holiday extravaganza that runs all weekend with performances, beer, photos with Santa and a live auction.

Sunday, Dec. 13 Second Annual Record Show @ the Blind Tiger (GSO), noon More than 30 vendors ply their vinyl wares at this second annual paean to recorded sound. All ages are invited but never fear: the bar will be open.

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CULTURE From her Persian kitchen, to yours

by Eric Ginsburg

he primary reason Nasreen Zereshki wrote a cookbook, Recipes from My Persian Kitchen, and is crafting two more, is to maintain her culture and pass it along to her children and grandkids. She enjoys cooking for other people too, teaching cooking classes and dreaming of one day operating a food truck, but her secondary motivation for sharing her cuisine is cultural exposure.

“I also want Americans to get to know Persian people, and not just what they see on TV,” said Zereshki, who grew up about an hour from Tehran. “When you bring food, you bring people together.”

Zereshki, who first came to the United States for college in 1975 but returned to Iran before permanently settling in this country in 1994, said she sees it as her duty to educate Americans about Persian people and culture. With the kitchen as her classroom, she’s encountered plenty of eager students.

In Zereshki’s childhood home, the energy emanated from the kitchen. That’s where the excitement was in her family, and Zereshki begged to participate.

“I was the one, I was so insistent that my parents let me cook,” she said. “I always wanted to.”

Zereshki would shadow her grandmother, picking up sage advice along the way — some of it, like, “Don’t ever throw a party that isn’t talked about later,” made ERIC GINSBURG Nasreen Zereshki always begged her family members to let her help in the kitchen. One day, she its way into her cookbook. Quality food was always hopes to run a food truck. very important to her family, Zereshki said, and when she came to the United States in 1975, she brought her food truck, is an assortment of Persian and common dishes likely bolstered by sandwiches and soups, burgeoning skills with her.

American cuisine, stretching to include hamburger and including her quite popular chicken soup. But until the On Friday or Saturday nights, her group of Iranian spaghetti recipes that her American students prefer to dream is realized, the chicken soup is in the cookbook. and American friends would gather, some of them the versions of the meals she grew up on. Recipes from Her follow-up publications will focus on vegan/vegepretty vocal about how eagerly they anticipated her My Persian Kitchen contains a whole section on kebabs tarian fare and desserts respectively, with an emphasis cooking. But her culinary skill has never been her priand another on pickling and preserves, more than 150 on fast and simple recipes for both. Like Zereshki’s mary vocation; when she returned to Tehran, Zereshki recipes in all including easy dishes for inexperienced first, they’ll be a collection of Persian classics and studied to become an interpreter, and these days she cooks, like a beets with yogurt appetizer and Grandbeyond. continues in that vein, working for mother’s Spinach Cucumber Dip. With Zereshki’s persistent effort to make her Persian Language Resources in GreensZereshki even makes a mango heritage and culture so accessible through cuisine, it boro. She also runs her own hair Email Nasreen Z. Zereshki habanero cheesecake. couldn’t be much easier to try and meet her part way. salon, a small studio that shares at zn3ama@aol.com to ask The cookbook is a reflection of some space with her fiancé’s insurabout cooking classes or buy her — sometimes she grows weary ance company on an unassuming Pick of the Week of Persian food, Zereshki said. The her cookbook directly, or commercial strip off Wendover day we talked, she had made a The hidden layers Avenue. find Recipes from My Persian spaghetti dish with squash, onion, Noshup @ Quisqueya Restaurant (GSO), Monday, She enjoys both lines of work, Kitchen online from Barnes zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes and 5:30 p.m. and said she finds interpreting & Noble or Amazon. pine nuts. And her favorite restauIf you’re not looking for it, Quisqueya is easy to rewarding because she’s helping rant, she said, is the Cheesecake miss. So here’s your chance to find one of Greenspeople, but her passion then necFactory. boro’s hidden gems and make friends along the essarily falls in the margins, though she’d like cooking Persian food isn’t particularly spicy or strongly way. Ethnosh, a collaboration between Face to to be the centerpiece. seasoned; the cuisine relies most on tumeric, pepper Face, Triad Local First and Bluezoom Advertising, “Cooking, it seems to me, it’s my best talent in my and cinnamon, she said. But Zereshki grows other wants to show you the ropes of Greensboro’s life,” Zereshki said. things in her home garden, including basil, cilantro, culinary scene. You can meet the owners of the best She teaches a cooking class once a season, giving her parsley, oregano, jalapeño peppers and three kinds of Dominican-styled eatery that you never knew existinsight into what Persian food people like the most, mint. She’s particularly partial to red pepper flakes, she ed with the rest of your oblivious community. Find like a pomegranate walnut stew served over rice that added, as well as garlic. the Facebook page or search Noshup on wherevent. she said Americans are “crazy for.”

If Zereshki opened a food truck, she’d rely on that com for more details.

The cookbook, like the imagined menu on her dream versatility to provide some of her most popular Persian

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The concept may eventually spread, Rainko said, likely stepping into Greensboro first, but Parrish and company wanted to start in the drink’s hometown.

“The reason why we like to do things like this,” he said, is that “we love that Winston is a city that’s be coming synonymous with making awesome things [and] I feel like we’re finally starting to make things that are really interesting.”

In a town that markets itself as the city of arts and innovation, it’s nice to see that creative spirit bleed into a communal endeavor, especially one that’s so easy to swallow.

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Using the ginger berry drink in a cocktail makes sense not just because it’s a local creation, but also because its flavor naturally complements liquor.

Ginger seems born for gin and whiskey, and is easily simpatico with tequila and vodka as well. And the presence of a fruity berry flavor can’t hurt.

The idea had already occurred to me in at-home experimentation with bourbon, and the Porch put out a different Sunshine + tequila concoction before Rainko pitched the month-long collaborative.

It wouldn’t be too difficult to emulate the Porch’s Spicy Strawberry Fields — which also includes simple syrup, lemon juice, a lime or lemon garnish and, of course, Sunshine — at home now that it isn’t for sale. Or just find the Good Day

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Joe Parrish admits that half of the reason a new cocktail at the Honey Pot in downtown Winston-Salem might be his all-time favorite comes from watching bartender Calvin Peña make it.

It can’t hurt either that the drink — made with local Sutler’s Spirit gin, lime, local honey, an egg white, a little bit of Sunshine and Angostura mist — promotes a beverage company he co-founded.

It’s almost like witnessing a ritual, Parrish said, as Peña goes through the steps to assemble the drink. Aided by the character and ambiance of the restaurant, where items such as fried guinea breast or a Thai appetizer called duck laap populate the menu, sitting at the sleek rear bar is an essential part of the unique experience.

Starting Nov. 10, bartenders like Peña at several of the city’s hippest venues put specialty cocktails featuring local Sunshine on the menu. Though the idea began with Ashleigh Rainko, a senior account exec at the Variable who reps Sunshine, bartenders generated their own recipes, even picking the liquor involved.

Parrish’s favorite, the Winstonite, clocks in at a mere $7, and is one of two specialty cocktails put out by the Honey Pot for the cocktail month. The Porch Kitchen & Cantina, Single Brothers, the Tavern at Old Salem and Hoots also joined the ranks, and Rainko is reaching out to more bartenders to keep the spirit alive through the end of the year.

The Tavern is utilizing Sutler’s gin too, though to quite different ends for its Camel City-tini, available through Nov. 30 and featuring red mango, turbinado caramelized pineapple juice, spiced beet juice from Salem Gardens, Sunshine, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. The Porch, a wildly popular Tex-Mex restaurant, appropriately made use of tequila, strawberry and jalapeños, but it rotated off the menu on Sunday.

Hoots, the brewery and bar housed next to Sutler’s Spirit and the Porch in the West End, came up with the best name for its drink: the Flash Bomb.

The bar’s contribution to the collective utilizes Sunshine as the primary ingredient, adding Carriage House apple bourbon and house apple soda.

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CULTURE Holy Ghost expands the big tent as they matriculate as a national act

by Jordan Green

oly Ghost Tent Revival’s sound solidified while the band was on tour about five years ago.

As a matter of practice, the individual members of the band don’t listen to their own music on headphones while they’re on the road.

“We sit in this comfortable silence or listen to the same music,” said Stephen Murray, the band’s lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. “A couple years ago, the Band became a huge part of what we listen to. We got on the same page as to what sound is important to us.”

As a group of music students at Greensboro College, Holy Ghost Tent Revival came out of the gate in 2007 with a high-energy sound that hearkened back to the 1920s or ’30s with heavy flourishes of ragtime. It was fun party music, although a bit of a conceit.

The Bands’ scruffy rock and roll, played with the discipline of an R&B revue and just enough looseness to incorporate both old-timey textures and poppy Beatlesque melodies, provided a key to unlock the groove for Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Their second fulllength album, 2012’s Sweet Like the Old Days, followed

by Right State of Mind in 2014, both flowed out of that formula.

“That kind of opened the door to a lot of early ’60s R&B, the soul aspect of the music,” Murray said. “We always had been using horns, but we started focusing on horns as an R&B element like Allen Toussaint’s arrangements with the Band — rock and roll with horns.”

While Holy Ghost’s sound has matured, the band advanced professionally by relocating to Asheville, as of about 18 months ago. Working in a city with a more active music scene provides the band’s individual members with more opportunities to work with other musicians outside of Holy Ghost, Murray said.

During a recent homecoming concert at the Blind Tiger on Nov. 20, the band opened with “Walking Over My Grave,” a track from their 2008 debut album, So Long I Screamed. The original song is a coarsened dandy’s jaunty dismissal of a love gone awry, but Holy Ghost’s recent reworking gave it a fierce energy matched with organic warmth. The rhythm section of drummer Ross Montsinger and bassist Kevin Williams supplied a dynamic crunch, while guitarist Matt Martin’s thin, wild tonality proved him to be an able pupil of the Band’s Robbie Robertson. Trumpeter Charlie Humphrey and trombonist Hank Widmer augmented the band as a powerhouse horn section.

With or without his Rickenbacker guitar as rhythm accompaniment, Murray vacillated his vocals between weary observation and pleading pathos, declaiming in moments of emphasis and flailing dervish-like on his instrument during sonic epiphanies.

Dulci Ellenberger, a solo artist who performs with Holy Ghost Tent Revival as a backup vocalist, answered Murray with winsome harmonies. Ellenberger has frequently shared the stage with Holy Ghost over the past several months, and on Nov. 20 Murray announced

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Singer Dulci Ellenberger (center) has joined Holy Ghost Tent Revival as an official member. Also pictured: Matt Martin, Kevin Williams and Stephen Murray (l-r)

that she was officially a member of the band. The band reciprocates by backing Ellenberger on her material.

Ellenberger’s vocals add a pleasing melodicism to the mix and raises their game to manifold professionalism. Performing three songs from her new solo album, I Can Feel It, Ellenberger’s voice carried a throaty ache and nostalgia that recalled ’60s reggae great Phyllis Dillon as much as Dolly Parton.

Ellenberger’s incorporation is only one aspect of the band stretching and redefining itself by flexing the strengths of all of its members.

For a couple as-yet unrecorded tunes, Williams relinquished his bass to Martin and sat down at a keyboard while taking the lead as a singer. His soulful vocals display the coiled electricity, if not the exact timbre and intonation of the late Levon Helm of the Band.

Meanwhile, Murray traded his guitar for a trumpet, articulating tight expository melodies on a couple songs, and Martin took over lead vocals on the testimonial “Shadow Only Knows.” As show people, Holy Ghost Tent Revival give as charismatic a performance as any young band going, with Murray and Martin periodically jumping off the drum riser mid-stroke and Humphrey delivering an incendiary trumpet solo from atop an amp stack during one number.

The band will be rehearsing their new material and then going into La La Land Studio in Louisville, Ky. to record their next album for a couple days in January.

After eight years of solid roadwork and recording, Holy Ghost Tent Revival is potentially on the cusp of

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a breakthrough — a test certainly, though they prefer to see it as an opportunity. They recently signed with a national booking agent, New Frontier, which will give them exposure to larger audiences by placing them as a support act while leaving room for them to continue to headline their own shows.

“It feels like the moment you put in a lot of work and something finally goes your way,” Murray said. “Their connections are broader than anything we’ve had in the past. It’s fingers crossed. We have to catch fire in front of a larger audience. They have the ability to put us in front of that audience. But what we do with it is up to us.”

Pick of the Week The band witch rocks All Them Witches @ The Garage (W-S), Nov. 29, 9 p.m.

They’re loud, heavy and slightly Southern. They’re All Them Witches, a four-piece from Nashville that is teaming up with Winston-Salem’s Must Be the Holy Ghost to present a night of hard-hitting tunes sure to wipe those silly smiles off of the early-Christmas celebrators. If you’ve been searching for an Ozzy Osbourne raised on Southern folk and with all the musical technology of 1990s, All Them Witches might be your band. Find tickets and more information at the-garage.ws.

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CULTURE A Triad filmmaker’s first big dive

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oren’s face is tight with consternation as he considers both his girlfriend’s recent abortion and a questionable story of his father’s death by shark. The 18-year-old living in a depressed fishing town on North Carolina’s Outer Banks is the centerpiece of Christopher Holmes’ debut feature film Lost Colony, a exploration of isolation and the body as physical property based in a small coastal town in North Carolina.

Holmes, who is also the program coordinator of Winston-Salem’s RiverRun International Film Festival, was working towards an MFA in video production at UNCG when he was assigned to write a fictional story about a personal object. He turned in an assignment on a shark-tooth necklace and within the seven years since graduation, his story became the script for Lost Colony. The film screened to a full theater at A/perture Cinema on Nov. 22 as part of a larger tour across the United States.

Lost Colony is a sort of coming-of-age story. Loren, played by UNC-Wilmington graduate Joshua Brady, is a lost boy looking for purpose under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, played by the Asheville-based indie-pop rocker Stephanie Morgan. Lies and familial problems leave a puppy-eyed Loren wandering between temporary jobs and occasionally to the house of alcoholic fisherman and family friend Randy, played by North Carolina native Phillip Ward, who provides most of the film’s comic relief. Despite its bleak tone, Lost PHOTO CREDIT Christopher Holmes’ debut feature film Lost Colony follows the dramatic and sometimes humorous life of a teenager living in a depressed town on the Outer Banks.

Colony has a surprising amount of humor.

There were more than a few moments when the Carolina coast from Kill Devil Hills to Wanchese on Banks. It might not have the sheen of a big-studio film, Winston-Salem audience was laughing — at Randy’s Roanoke Island — is a derelict beach community with but for Holmes, like Loren in one liberating moment, it asinine country-folk humor, Loren’s goof-off boss who sleazy beach-town advertising and colorful residents is a courageous plunge into the water. is more interested in the boy’s mother than teaching who recite bizarre facts they’ve “seen on the TV.” It’s employees and also often times Loren’s naivety. a spot-on replication of the quintessential North Brady’s performance as Loren, and his big emotive Carolina small town, complete with homely wardrobe eyes in particular, is one of Lost Colony’s strong points.

Pick of the Week and native dialects. It’s a backdrop for which Holmes He’s panicky, compulsive but also tender. Loren’s Black Freeday boldly weaves an intellectual search for identity in the girlfriend Ramona, a stony-faced and elegant teenThe Really Really Free Market @ Corner of Grove St. life of one lost boy. And the airy, plaintive soundtrack ager played by Sam Buchanan, serves ice cream while and Glenwood Ave. (GSO), Friday 11 a.m. provided by the band Sevrul only augments Lost Colodreaming of college, until her pregnancy snatches that Claiming Black Friday as Buy Nothing Day is a ny’s awkward and often pleasing dream. She forms a slightly misbold move on what might be the world’s most conposition as a serious art film with matched counterpart to Loren.

Lost Colony screens at UNCG’s the quirk of having rural-town sumer-based holiday. But that’s exactly what a few Their relationship is finished after revolutionary shoppers are doing. They want you to Brown Building Theatre on authenticity, warts and all. one confusing sequence in which bring things to give, and take what you need. It’s all Lost Colony is an expertly Ramona nearly drowns in a Dec. 3. Visit lostcolonyfilm. going to be okay because it’s Buy Nothing Day. Find paced meditation on a lost swimming pool. Loren, who has a squarespace.com for more more details at the Facebook event page. teenager that packs a surprising deep-seated fear of water due to information. amount of thought into 90 minhis father’s deadly shark attack, utes. In Holmes’ film everything can only sit by the edge of the is lost: the aborted fetus, the teenager’s ambitions and Correction pool as he experiences a panic attack. a sense of family. But what’s gained is strong attempt An article in the Nov. 18 issue of Triad City Beat, Not everything in Lost Colony is clear cut. It’s an artat cultural understanding in the new South and a film “Knitting becomes common thread in Lindley Park” house drama steeped in awkward-boyish humor with that is 100-percent North Carolina. reported in error that Kathy Newsome was the only the ever-present notion that these lost teens are living Holmes, who’s lived in North Carolina since 2002 woman in the Lindley Park Neighborhood Associaamong the ghosts of the famous lost Roanoke colony. and currently lives and works in the Triad, insisted on tion. In fact, both women and men are active in the The coastal town where Loren roams — which is shooting the entire film during 17 days on the Outer neighborhood association. never named but which Holmes filmed along the

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GOOD SPORT Another man’s treasure hildhood obsession sometimes transforms into nostalgic devotion.

Many adults let loose their eccentric inner children at the Triad Antique & Collectible Toy, Hobby & Sports Card

by Anthony Harrison Show at the Greensboro Coliseum complex last weekend.

There was a hell of a lot of different stuff spread across the expo; everything a hobbyist, collector or hoarder might want: action figures, video games, movie posters, vinyl records, coins and currency, die-cast cars, model planes and tanks, cigarettes, Elvis relics and, of course, cards representing stars from every sport, from baseball to wrestling.

Toys probably occupied the most tables of all. Memorabilia from many franchises, from “Star Trek” and GI Joe to Buck Rogers and “Mork and Mindy,” could be found among the sprawl.

Unsurprisingly, the Star Wars faithful showed up in force.

“Star Wars is the blue chip stock of the collectible market,” said exhibitor Neil Drummond, who lives in Greensboro.

Drummond‘s offerings overran an entire corner of the bazaar, with buckets and stacks of Star Wars toys, including models of every craft from the Millennium Falcon to the sleek Naboo starfighter from The Phantom Menace.

Drummond claimed to have hundreds of figures — “maybe a thousand if you count the little loose guys,” he added.

Drummond said he sold his original collection of toys because he thought, as he put it, he was “too old for this.” But he rekindled his love for collecting after going to expos with his father.

Many of the exhibitors shared the same moments of rediscovery, especially the sports card collectors.

Exhibitor Steven Webb’s first card was a doozy: a Johnny Unitas rookie card from when the legendary quarterback’s first year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“I ain’t got the one I had,” Webb said, “but I got his rookie card again.”

He brought it out, but it wasn’t for sale; he brought it to augment the story. It’s his personal favorite, after all.

“I hunted drink bottles to get my cards,” Webb said.

“I’d be rooting in a briar patch by the railroad tracks to hunt a bottle for an extra penny to get the card I wanted. That’s old school.”

Webb’s tables, topped with glass cases filled with baseball, football, basketball and NASCAR cards, stood opposite from the other sports cards collections, but not because they were any less impressive.

A whole case was devoted to North Carolina’s most famed athlete: Michael Jordan.

“The Jordans still do well, ’cause he was the great-

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However, one popular card still does remarkably well, despite the athlete’s troubled life: Mickey Mantle.

“Mantles are becoming a commodity,” Justin, a buyer who wished for partial anonymity, told me.

The New York Yankees’ great switch-hitter’s cards command a premium of thousands of dollars for pristine examples, depending on the year.

“A 1952 Mantle in Grade-A condition went for $486,000 two days ago,” exhibitor Edward Lawson said.

Lawson, a collector from Knoxville, Tenn., had excellent examples of impressive cards: quite a few Mantles, Jackie Robinsons, Yogi Berras, Roberto Clementes, a Sandy Koufax rookie and other greats. He estimated his entire collection’s value at $125,000.

He said that, along with the Mantles, Pete Rose cards sell well.

“They’re affordable,” Lawson said. “What people can afford is what sells.”

As I spoke with Lawson, he and Justin haggled over a ’59 Mantle in good condition, one with a 4.5 Sportscard Guarantee Corporation rating.

Lawson settled for $225.

It was likely a good investment on Justin’s part; according to Lawson, Mantle cards hold better than pricier cards, like Babe Ruths or even the famed Honus Wagner.

Retired academic dean cum card dealer Larrie Dean, who runs Dean’s House of Cards in Virginia, is a Mantle fan, unsurprising considering his Yankees jersey.

“My favorite card is his 1952 Topps; No. 311,” Dean said — the same card which had just sold for a fortune.

Different reasons abound for the popularity of Mantles.

“He was the iconic player of the ’50s and ’60s,” said Dean. “He’s not typically listed as one of the Top 10 greatest of all time, but he has his legacy as a wholesome, handsome, good-ol’ country boy.”

Lawson had a slightly different opinion.

“He was the Golden Boy, a great white star in a time when many stars were black,” Lawson said. “Players like [Giants center fielder Willie] Mays were so racial — still is — and lots of Southern fans liked Mantle just ’cause he was white. They were more comfortable with that. So, when they’d sign autographs, there’d be a line out the door waiting for Mantle, but Mays might have 50 people waiting.”

Lawson ended his explanation with a shrug.

Both explanations may be true. But further still, Mantle captured something quintessential about the game of baseball: He exhibited extreme potential and talent, yet suffered from injuries, demons and addictions, thus

failing to live up to lofty expectations.

He was flawed. So, he was human.

Then again, many of those at the show probably represent a decent cross section of the typical baseball card buyer: middle-aged, white, Mantle fans who have just enough sentiment and too much money.

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by Nicole Crews a Kid a Coat, donate to your local shelters, volunteer to feed the homeless, write a check to your favorite charity and adopt a needy kid’s wish list for the holidays. But the list doesn’t stop there. I’m a giver — just ask any of my ex-boyfriends — or call me a poor man’s white Oprah — but in the spirit of the season I offer a few more presents for some of those deserving and some of those in need.

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Dudes I meet at Triad networking seminars: The Social Media Etiquette Guide is coming your way. Just because you have the ability to private message your friends and followers does not mean that you should do so indiscriminately.

Just because we exchanged business cards and I graciously accepted your friend request does not give you permission to berate me with, “Hey,” “Hey Girl,” “What’s up?,” “You’re hot.” As impressive as your tenacious mouth-breathing skills are, the reason I am blocking you is because, “I am not interested.”

Greensburger: As much as I congratulate Hops Burger Bar on getting crowned best burger in the country on Trip Advisor’s list, I would like to offer the city of Greensboro health food. I will gnaw down a burger with the best of them and can sniff out a truffle fry faster than any porcine Perigordian. But this town is lousy with killer burger joints and

virtually bereft of restaurants where the focus is arterial flow — not stoppage.

There are a few excellent exceptions but for a historically hippie town, we’ve taken a greasy turn.

Developer Marty Kotis: I give to you an honorary engineering degree for building the bridges of real estate throughout Greensboro. Love him or hate him, this dude has been filling in the gaps and buildings and corridors for businesses that veer from downtown to the Battleground bridge all the way to Gate City Boulevard. Yes, many of those businesses are his own, but he’s paved the way for many others along the way.

Downtown Greensboro Inc. CEO Zack Matheny: A sparkling tiara for grace under pressure goes your way Zach for handling your recent troubles with aplomb.

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Greensboro Police Department: Congratulations to GPD for making us the subject of national controversy via a scathing article in the New York Times on racial profiling. I give the department a big raspberry for letting this go on in 2015.

Brewers: While the Triad hasn’t quite caught up with Asheville in terms of number of breweries, alehouses and potential IPA IPOs, it still has its molars floating in hops. I gift to you the Dad Bod of the Year Award and am grateful for the numerous mattress stores around where you can sleep those pints off.

Howard Coble: Finally, a warm tribute is owed our recently deceased congressman from the 6th District who served from 1985 to 2015. Despite being a Republican, Coble was loved by many and respected by most for his intellect, level-headedness and many kindnesses throughout his tenure.

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