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It’s complicated

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UP FRONT 3 Editor’s Notebook 4 City Life 6 Commentariat 6 The List 7 Barometer 7 Unsolicited Endorsement

NEWS 8 Say Yes says maybe to undocumented immigrants 10 Winston-Salem council tension on legislative agenda

OPINION 11 Editorial: Step down, McCrory

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11 Citizen Green: What work is worth 12 It Just Might Work: Sticking together 12 Fresh Eyes: On kindness, safety pins and human nature

16 Art: Using drones, artist surveils surveillance

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13 Food: Teens and restaurants give hope at Taste the South 14 Barstool: I’m not an alcoholic 15 Music: Bittersweet charity divides New York Pizza

SPORTSBALL 18 Postseason dreams for Triad teams

SHOT IN THE TRIAD 20 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro

TRIADITUDE ADJUSTMENT 22 Thanks for Nothing, 2016

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My relationship with President-elect Donald Trump is complicated.

For instance, it makes me shiver a little when I type his name now, because I think he’s a dangerous lunatic elected largely by fools who think they proved a point.

And maybe they did.

But I’m an optimist by nature, albeit a cynical one, and I’m an American, dammit. Part of me wants to believe that it’s possible Trump can — gulp — make American great again.

Even if it’s by accident.

Because I know Trump is no Republican. The guy has two gold helicopters, for crying out loud, which is the most fiscally irresponsible purchase I’ve ever heard of this side of Truck Nutz.

I don’t see him falling in line with his fellow GOPers, and can even imagine him setting himself up in a position adversarial to the likes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, because screw those guys. Where were they when he needed them?

Then he gets back on his Twitter and shows his ass, and all the morons who believe in this guy suddenly think they can boycott Hamilton!

Good luck with that one.

It’s been like this every time: Trump announces a massive public works project, reminding me of the last true New Yorker who occupied the White House: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And then I learn that two of his economic advisors, Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro, have cooked up a scheme to privatize huge chunks of our infrastructure, selling it off to investors and subsidizing the deal with federal tax incentives.

Of the plan for his first 100 days, I like the part about term limits on Congress. But I don’t like the part where he pretends climate change isn’t real. I kinda like the renegotiation of NAFTA and the restrictions on lobbying for former lawmakers, The guy has but I’m appalled by his stance on two gold immigration, hints by his staffers helicopters, of a Muslim registry, or the racists for crying out and sociopaths he’s choosing to loud. surround himself with.

He’s ignoring decades of tradition by hiding his finances from the American people, and wedging business opportunities into serious governmental meetings. He doesn’t want to live in the White House. He’s turned the process of cabinet selection into a stupid reality show. He doesn’t understand theater.

He’s declared the media an enemy, set a new bottom for the national discourse and doesn’t seem to understand the responsibilities of the office he’s been elected to hold.

You know, maybe it’s not that complicated. The guy’s a mess.

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CITY LIFE November 23 – 29

Wrestling @ Benton Convention Center (W-S) More than 100 wrestlers come together for the fifth and final Wrestlecade Weekend hosted by none other than Nature Boy Ric Flair. The event will include the heroes, heroines, villains of today and yesteryear and up and coming stars of the future for an all-star bash that would put any WWF cage fight to shame. For more information visit wrestlecade.com

THURSDAY

Yoga @ Mind Body Fitness yoga (GSO), 9:30 a.m.

Before you indulge in the turkey day festivities, take a moment to join the yogis from Mind Body Fitness Studios for some Thanksgiving gratitude flow. The purpose of the appreciation-inspired yoga class is to promote a feeling of gratitude as one moves through the season of giving. For more information, visit mindbodyfitnessyoga.com.

5K @ Winston-Salem Fairgrounds & Annex (W-S), 9 a.m.

Need something to do while the turkey is basking in tubs of buttery lard in the oven for hours on end? Head on over to the USATF certified 5K course for a casual run/walk at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. If you are lucky you may walk away with another turkey; at the very least everyone will receive a participation medal. For more information visit turkeystrut.com.

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Free goods exchange @ Grove Street People’s Market (GSO), 11 a.m.

Join the community for a ginormous multi-person yard sale where everything is free. Guess you call that a non-sale? Bring an item to exchange and take an item or take nothing at all. More information can be found on the Really Really Free Market, Buy Nothing Day Edition Facebook Page.

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Bottling bash @ Foothill’s Brewing Co. (W-S), 12 p.m.

It’s that time again for the annual bottling of Foothill’s Moravian Porter, and Salem Baking will be stopping by the tasting room with some delicious Moravian cookies. Of course a food truck will be on-site, La Vie En Rose, that sassy lush pink van serving up that oh-la-la French cuisine. For more information visit foothillsbrewing.com.

SUNDAY Dachshund meet-up @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 2 p.m.

The wiener roundup is back by popular demand.

After a reluctant cancellation in October due to the 2016 election, the pups are back with another yappy hours meet up, Weiner Wonderland. So don’t fret, that costume you picked out for the Happy Halloweenie event can now be put to use in the upcoming winter themed costume contest. More information can be found on the Wiener Wonderland Yappy Hours Facebook page or lebauerpark.org.

Chakra alignment @ Yoga & Wellness of High Point (HP), 5:30 p.m.

End your week with a journey of sound created by Alexander Tuttle through the use of crystal bowls, Tibetan cowls, tingshas, chimes and bells in order to stimulate and tap into the nine energy centers, the seven main chakras and below the feet and above one’s head.

For more information regarding this meditative session visit yogaandwellnessofhighpoint.com.

No shaving for cancer @ the Beer Growler Winston-Salem (W-S), 2 p.m.

The Beer Growler of Winston Salem holds its first annual no-shave beard contest in an effort to educate and increase awareness regarding cancer. Since so many cancer patients lose their hair during their battle with the disease, they have decided to embrace their hair in this wild and crazy contest where the winner will receive an assortment of beard goodies to keep their beard looking so fresh and clean.

For more information check out the No Shave November Beard Contest page on Facebook.

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Helpful phone numbers If a reader wants to do something about this latest Republican power grab [“Editorial: Moving the goalposts on the NC Supreme Court”; Nov. 16, 2016], you should call Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s office (919.733.5708) and House Speaker Tim Moore’s office (919.814.2050) and tell them that you are opposed to the idea of the General Assembly changing the composition of the state Supreme Court in the upcoming session.

David Puryear, via triad-city-beat. com Different universes of facts How about you not state something that is merely conjecture as a fact? [“Trump’s North Carolina: How the biggest political upset in history went down”; by Jordan Green; Nov. 16, 2016] After all, you are in the news business. Saying voters saw Donald Trump as the lesser of two evils is not a fact. It’s an observation. Saying North Carolina voters chose him because of this fact; merely an observation. These are not times when a respected publication like yours needs to jump on any bandwagon — Trump or otherwise. You may have been wiser to state to many folks in North Carolina voted for Trump and other candidates besides Hillary Clinton, but here in Guilford and Forsyth, the majority voted in favor of Clinton.

Now that’s a fact.

MC Wessling, via triad-city-beat. com I quit reading Mr. Green’s article when he claimed there was a valid dispute on whether or not Clinton blamed the embassy attack on a video. Shoddy research (Google: “Clinton blames video in front or caskets), or blatant misleading? I have my thoughts on that. Mr. Green.

Either lazy, or a liar. Period.

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Jordan Green responds: I stand by my reporting on both counts. Numerous voters that we interviewed on Election Day told me that they voted for Trump as the “lesser of two evils,” and Trump obviously carried North Carolina. Ergo, North Carolina voters saw Donald Trump as the lesser of two evils.

On the matter of the attack on the Libyan embassy compound, Politifact, a respected fact-checking organization, found that family members gave conflicting accounts on whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at Andrews Air Force Base that the attack was motivated by an inflammatory video.

It’s true that Hillary Clinton made statements in the days after the attack referencing the video or “inflammatory material on the internet,” and around the same time also sent a private email to her daughter, Chelsea, that said the diplomatic officers were killed “by an al Qaeda-like group.” However, that doesn’t prove conclusively that Clinton knew at the time that the attack was not motivated by the video.

Outstanding bok choy Enjoyed reading your review of Phoenix Asian Cuisine [“At Phoenix Asian Cuisine, a local alternative to PF Chang’s”; by Eric Ginsburg; Nov. 16, 2016] in Triad City Beat this week. Since the restaurant hasn’t been on my radar in a while, your article piqued my interest in returning. Thanks. You mention “relatively slim pickings when it comes to good Chinese food in the Triad.” I may be mistaken, but I think you wrote a piece a good while back on Full Kee Chinese Restaurant in High Point. It is one of my favorites for true Chinese fare, with all entrees under $21. The steamed sea bass is among my go-to dishes. I usually include a serving of bok choy, which is outstanding. I am hard pressed to find any better in the Triad. Keep up the good work in reviewing area eateries and providing other great writings.

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Four things I am thankful for

by Naari Honor

1. Freedom of the press

This Thanksgiving, while I’ll be grateful for the usual things like family, health and wellbeing, current events have prompted me to dig a little deeper in regards to things I am thankful for. Under the First Amendment of the Constitution, I have the right to voice my opinion in print without the fear of being censored by my government.

expression and stretching the boundaries of literature. Then I heard a collection of his work on a CD I picked up from Ollie’s a few years back and really took the time to listen to the way he combined words to convey messages of peace and protest simultaneously. For me, Dylan winning the Nobel solidified the fact that artists are powerful and can ignite change while staying true to themselves.

2. The 2016 presidential election

4. Jeff Jeske

This election was a pivotal moment for our country because it revealed the truth of people. Whether individuals were bigots or tree-hugging, peace-keeping lovers of everything, where they stood when it came to human rights was made clear during this presidential election. I am thankful for this because it revealed where people stood in regards to their political beliefs and human rights, but also helped many people realize the importance of advocating for their beliefs in a public forum.

3. Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature As a writer, I wanted to know more about Bob Dylan so that I could understand the importance he had on poetic

You may not know this guy. In my mind he is still my English professor at Guilford College, although he is technically on medical leave. I met him a couple years ago when I begged him to allow me to write for the college’s newspaper despite not having met the requirements to do so.

I saw him a couple of weeks ago. When he hugged me I could feel the indentions of his spine through his shirt. I didn’t want to let him go, but I also didn’t want to hold him too tight. I am grateful for Jeske because for some reason he continues to believe that I have this special gift. That, in turn, keeps me going when I want to give up. In today’s world, we all need a bit of encouragement to hold on to, and the world needs more Jeff Jeskes.

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Readers: Readers worked the numbers up to a tie between the Demon Deacons and the Aggies, both of which are still alive in the playoffs. They garnered 38 percent of the vote apiece. The WSSU Rams finish their winning season in second place with 24 percent. HPU did not make the cut with anyone except Clarey. They got zero votes.

It was the sort of thing that can only happen to me, or maybe Jordan Green.

It happened in my car as I sat in a high school parking lot, waiting to pick my kid up from a thing at school. It was late, and I was exhausted.

I hit the recline button on the automatic seat and eased it all the way back, thinking I might catch a quick nap before he came out of the building, which is exactly what I did.

But when he came out, the seat wouldn’t go back up.

I drove it home that way, half asleep, holding the top half of my body upright by bracing on the wheel.

It was such a stupid situation that I was too embarrassed to go to my mechanic, so I troubleshot the thing myself and narrowed it down, two days later, to a bad switch. I found one online for about $150 and was all set to order it when I decided to take one last crack at it.

I asked my daughter, who is maybe a couple years younger than the vehicle in question: “Do we have one of those little cans of air that you use to blast your computer keyboard?”

“Yeah, no” she said.

“Oh,” I said. “Maybe I should try blowing in it.”

“Why don’t you spray WD40 in it?” she suggested.

“What? No,” I said. “What do you know about WD40?”

“Nothing, actually,” she said. “The internet says you can fix anything with it. Like duct tape.”

Ridiculous.

But I did have a can of WD40 lying around. And after I blew into the switch a couple times with no result, I squirted a little WD40 into the little gap around it. I waited maybe eight seconds. And when I pushed the switch, the driver’s seat slowly began to rise.

I regard this as an absolute miracle, brought to you by WD40, the internet and my little girl.

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Brian Clarey: I’m going with the High Point University Panthers volleyball team, for several reasons. One is that football gets plenty of emphasis in the world of college sports, so even though I love the Aggies and the Rams, I will pass on them. Wake Forest, too, is sort of an intuitive choice because soccer attracts some of the best overall athletes. But the Panthers take it from me, not just because they are the Big South champs after beating Liberty University over the weekend, but also because they’re in High Point, and High Point can use the love.

Eric Ginsburg: Do what now? Honestly I wouldn’t know where to begin unless this was multiple choice. I’m going with Winston-Salem State football because they’re CIAA champions this year, with ACC champs Wake Forest soccer team second. The Aggies deserve a nod with only one loss, but High Point’s volleyball record of 20-9 is more of a B+ effort.

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followed any of these teams, any preference I expressed would only be a proxy for some kind of weird parochial or class identity politics. Oh, you say that’s basically what spectator sports is all about? Well, I don’t think I can make a convincing play in that game.

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A select few of the Triad’s college teams have been absolutely killing it this fall. The NC A&T University Aggies football team went 9-2, went to the MEAC championship and earned a wildcard playoff spot in the NCAA Division I championship tournament. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons men’s soccer team won the ACC championship and is now competing in the NCAA tournament. The High Point University Lady Panthers volleyball team earned a spot in the Big South tournament. And the Winston-Salem State Rams football team won the CIAA championship but then lost in the first round of NCAA Division II playoffs.

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Say Yes says maybe to undocumented Guilford students

by Jordan Green

Local leaders of Say Yes to Education-Guilford, an endowment that provides “last dollar” financial aid to allow graduates from Guilford County Schools to go to college, say they are sympathetic to the plight of undocumented students, but there are no immediate plans to include them in the scholarship program.

Luis Flores, a 19-year-old graduate of the Middle College at UNCG who came with his family to the United States from Mexico at the age of 2, had already registered for classes at East Carolina University, where he had his heart set on pursuing a pre-med degree.

He’d already met his roommate, bought books and supplies, and lined up an internship at a Montessori school.

But before the start of the fall semester, he had to tell his roommate and new friends that he wouldn’t be coming after all. The university had made a mistake in determining that Flores was eligible for in-state tuition. Say Yes to Education-Guilford, a local nonprofit that provides last-dollar support to help Guilford County students attend college, had pledged to cover his tuition, but now that Flores was no longer eligible for the in-state discount, the scholarship was no longer available.

Flores and his family have been approved for a humanitarian visa as a result of his father being victimized in a crime in California — Flores declined in an interview to provide details about the incident out of respect for his father’s wishes — but he doesn’t yet have the actual visa. Flores said East Carolina has agreed to hold a spot for him for the spring 2017 semester if and when he obtains the visa. That could happen in the next several days, or it could take months or years, he said. In the meantime, his life is more or less on hold. His high school friends have all left for college elsewhere in the state while Flores is getting an English requirement out of the way by taking a class at GTCC while working part time.

“At first it was kind of like, ‘Why did this happen to me?’” Flores recalled.

“I’ve been dedicating my entire life to school. I did over 250 hours of ser-

Undocumented students protested their exclusion from the Say Yes scholarship program in September.

vice-learning through four years of high school. I was working and doing internships. It’s kind of disappointing to see that you don’t get that support from your community that you’ve given so much to.”

Say Yes-Guilford, which issued its first round of scholarships this fall, has been under pressure to extend financial support to undocumented students since late spring. Although Flores is not technically undocumented — prior to his family’s approval for the humanitarian visa, he was covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, giving him a Social Security number and work permit — he falls in the same legal limbo as others who are not receiving financial support from the local program.

“We received a letter from Latino advocates in the late spring or early summer saying they wanted to have a discussion about seeing what we could do for undocumented students,” said Kevin Gray, who holds a position on the scholarship board as the executive director of the Weaver Foundation. “In North Carolina, undocumented students are not eligible for in-state tuition.

That’s the big rub.”

The question of whether the scholarship fund should benefit undocumented students did not come up as a matter

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of discussion when many local foundations, including the Weaver Foundation, the High Point Community Foundation and the Cone Health Foundation made significant contributions to establish an endowment. Many of those funders, who now have a voice in Say Yes’ governance through positions on the scholarship board and operating committee, have said they’re sympathetic to the undocumented students’ plight.

“No, we haven’t had an in-depth discussion,” said Gray, whose foundation contributed $1.25 million to the endowment with an agreement that some of the money could cover operational expenses. “I don’t think we would. We leave that up to the grantee.”

Gray said he and other leaders are receptive to the advocates’ plea for inclusion.

“I think we’re going to be able to work something out, but we have to be patient,” Gray said. “There are a variety of students that are in need, and Say Yes is going to try to serve them all.”

Steve Sumerford chairs the board at the Cone Health Foundation, which contributed $1 million to the endowment.

“Our board is very enthusiastic about Say Yes, and also concerned that it does not now include undocumented students,” he said.

Meredith Archie, a spokesperson for Duke Energy, noted that the energy giant’s $1 million grant to Say Yes-Guilford is specifically earmarked for “wrap-around services” like tutoring, mentoring, health, social services and after-school activities that are available to all students in the Guilford County Schools system, and declined to directly address a question about the utility’s position on whether the scholarship funds should be available to undocumented students.

Donnie Turlington, a spokesperson for Say Yes-Guilford, said the nonprofit wants to be inclusive of the immigrant community and get a better understanding of barriers to educational access. To that end, two advocates for the community have been invited into the nonprofit’s leadership structure. Addy Jeffrey, a longtime advocate for the Latinx community, has been appointed to the community leadership council, while Katya Castellon, an associate director of undergraduate admissions at UNCG, is now a member of the operating committee.

Despite encouraging statements from some representatives of Say Yes’ leadership, Skip Moore, a key member of the scholarship board, said there are no immediate plans to accommodate undocumented students. Moore, who serves as a volunteer executive director to the scholarship board, said the matter is not on the agenda for the board’s next meetings in January or February.

“At the current time I don’t see any action we can take,” he said. Moore added that he anticipates the board will focus on continued fundraising to build the endowment to meet its obligations to documented students, what he referred to as “the core program.”

Say Yes-Guilford has raised $41 million towards a goal of $70 million set for the endowment.

“What would you suggest we do to get the money?” Moore asked. “It’s easy for them to say, ‘Go raise the money and include them.’ If someone steps forward and says, ‘I want to fund undocumented students,’ we would be happy to talk

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undocumented students from the scholarship program, the utility has framed its support as a function of economic development.

“We recognize that a strong educational foundation for all students is essential for our state’s competitive edge,” said Shawn Heath, president of the Duke Energy Foundation in a statement that accompanied the utility’s $1 million contribution, “which is why we’re excited to make this important investment in Say Yes-Guilford.”

Moore said he’s met with an undocumented student who graduated from Southeast Guilford High School as head of his ROTC program and an honor student.

“I’ve met several students who your heart goes out to,” he said. “I don’t know that we can give them the answer they want.”

Moore added a sentiment that sounded like a call to action, although he made it clear that he did not have Say Yes in mind.

“I don’t know why we want an economic underclass,” he said. “That’s what we’re doing.”

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There are no definitive statistics for the number of students graduating from Guilford County Schools who are excluded from Say Yes’ scholarship program because of undocumented status. Alexandra Sirota, project director for the NC Budget & Tax Policy Center at the NC Justice Center, told a group at a League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad luncheon in Greensboro earlier this month that the number likely ranges from 54 to 190 per year.

Considering that the endowment provides scholarship funding through an interest yield of roughly 4 percent per year and out-of-state tuition for schools in the University of North Carolina System averages at about $16,000, Moore estimated Say Yes would need an endowment of $400,000 to cover the cost of tuition for an undocumented student for one year.

Moore ruled out the possibility of Say Yes making a partial contribution to support undocumented students as a compromise to at least offset the cost of out-of-state tuition. Adding another barrier, undocumented students who lack Social Security numbers cannot fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, which Say Yes uses to determine how much money students will need to cover the last dollar of tuition. Moore said Say Yes has not given any thought to developing an alternative tool such as reviewing W-2 forms that could be used to determine financial need for undocumented students.

During her presentation to the league, Sirota argued an economic case for the state General Assembly to pass legislation to provide tuition equity — a solution that many Say Yes leaders have fervently embraced. Sirota said that by 2020, 60 percent of North Carolina jobs would require some type of post-secondary education. To reach that goal, the state needs to educate 1 million people. While whites and African Americans are overrepresented in post-secondary education, Sirota said Latinxs and Asians are under-represented, adding that there is some overlap between those demographics and the immigrant population. Increasing affordability, including through tuition equity, could reduce barriers to secondary education.

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Winston-Salem council: Stop prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults

by Jordan Green

Winston-Salem City Council speaks with one voice against the practice of prosecuting 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, but splits over changing the schedule for municipal elections.

Winston-Salem council members fractured in an uncharacteristically volatile session on Monday night over the city’s legislative agenda.

The first crack appeared when Councilman Robert Clark, the body’s lone Republican member, announced he would not support the set of six requests, disparaging it as “probably the worst package I’ve ever seen” in his 15 years on council and adding, “Four of the six are dead on arrival, and the other two are technical amendments.”

Clark’s dissension prompted a plea from Councilman James Taylor, a former juvenile justice counselor, for unity to support a request that the General Assembly change the age of jurisdiction so that teenagers under the age of 18 are no longer prosecuted as adults in North Carolina. Taylor said he has been fighting to change the law since he joined city council in 2009.

“North Carolina is one of two states in America that still charges juveniles as adults at the age of 16,” he said. “I think that is a terrible practice, and we have to do a better job of providing better opportunities for our citizens….

Think about when you were 16. Maybe we didn’t do everything correctly; maybe we did do everything correctly. A decision that’s made by a young person at the age of 16 follows them for the rest of their lives. They have trouble finding housing. They have trouble finding jobs.”

At Taylor’s urging, Clark agreed to reconsider. The juvenile justice request was pulled from the package and council approved it unanimously. In a separate motion, Councilman Dan Besse removed a controversial request to change the city’s election schedule, and council members approved the balance, including requests to make police bodyand dash-camera video a public record, to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, to clean up obsolete language in the city’s election ordinance and to allow the city to recover more costs from

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efforts to address housing complaints. convinced that it is best, with limited A panel from an independent comexceptions, to not run juveniles through mission convened by state Supreme the adult system. It’s not really tougher Court Chief Justice Mark Martin on crime. Many times they’ll get some recommended in a draft report released probation, and many times it’s actualin July that the General Assembly raise ly tougher to put them in the juvenile the age of jurisdiction to 18, with the system.” exception of felonies and traffic offensCouncilman Clark criticized his es. A registered Republican, Martin was colleagues’ request that the General appointed to the post in 2012 by Gov. Assembly declare footage from police Pat McCrory. body-worn cameras to be a public “A substantial body of evidence sugrecord, while putting the burden on gests that both youthful offenders and prosecutors, police officers and citizens society benefit when depicted in the recordpersons under 18 years ings to seek a court orold are treated in the der to block disclosure. juvenile system rather The requested legis‘This is proof that than the criminal lation would reverse a voter suppression is justice system,” the law signed by outgoing Criminal Investigation Gov. McCrory, which alive and well in the & Adjudication Complaces the burden on Democratic Party of mittee of the Martin members of the public Commission stated to sue for release of Forsyth County.’ in its interim report.

– Councilman Robert Clark the video.

“In response to this Clark said the evidence, other states requested legislation have raised the juvenile would not solve the age. Notwithstanding recommendations problem of providing transparency. from two legislatively-mandated studies “It doesn’t matter whether we use of the issue, positive experiences in the current system or the one we had other states that have raised the age, and before,” he said. “If it is controversial two cost-benefit studies showing that — and if it’s not controversial nobody raising the age would benefit the state cares about it — but if it is controversial economically, North Carolina has yet to with a particular crime involved, the DA take action on this issue.” is gonna get a court order and it’s not Rep. John Blust (R-Guilford), who going to be shown to the general public chairs the House Judiciary II Commituntil it is resolved. And that makes tee, said he supports the initiative. sense. I understand why the DA does “I can be accused of being fairly hard that: If you’re involved in something to budge,” Blust said in an interview, that you probably shouldn’t have been “but this is one where I’ve come to be doing, you’d love to see the video so

you can make sure you get your story straight.”

Councilman Taylor, who chairs the public safety committee, argued that the legislature overstepped its bounds in suppressing the video.

“These body cameras were not paid for by Raleigh,” he said. “These body cameras were paid for by our local city tax dollars, and from what I’m hearing from the community, this is what they want. These cameras were paid for by the community and they need to have access, transparency and accountability.”

The comment by Clark that raised the most ire from his Democratic colleagues was his criticism of a request to move municipal elections back to odd years. This year, for the first time, Winston-Salem City Council elections were held during a presidential election year, thanks to a bill filed by Republican former state Rep. Dale Folwell in 2011.

“This is proof that voter suppression is alive and well in the Democratic Party of Forsyth County,” Clark said. “If we do this the number of people who voted in this election will be one-tenth of what voted this last time.”

Some black members of city council took offense at Clark’s statement.

“To assert that an act of moving the elections back to a time in which they had happened historically is equal to voter suppression I think is an atrocious statement because when you look at voter suppression historically, voter suppression has been targeted specifically to prohibit individuals from having access to the polls,” Councilman Derwin Montgomery said. “You think about literacy tests. You think about people having to say their ABCs backwards and having to read the dictionary in order to vote — that’s voter suppression.

“This has nothing and it’s nowhere close to anything that can be considered voter suppression,” he added, “and I think that’s a slap in the face to those who have fought consistently to make sure that people of all backgrounds and all ages, all races, all creeds have an opportunity to get to exercise their basic fundamental right of casting their ballot.”

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Every November I remove Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech: “Democrats, we the leaves from the grounds are the party of working people, but we haven’t done a of my church. It’s a side job good enough job of showing we get what you’re going that supplements my income through.” Packer later asked Clinton what she meant, as a journalist, as do two and in the ensuing conversation she spoke of the limits or three lawn mowings per of an “educationalist” mindset, what she called a “peculiar month during the spring and form of elitism.” She went on to say, “We need to do summer months. something that is really important, and this is to just go

by Jordan Green Particularly in November, right after the denigration of jobs and skills that are not as the leaves rot and the cold sets in, the repetition and college-connected.” physical exertion of raking and bagging reminds me of The supreme irony of Clinton’s position, as Packer some fundamental truths. In the immediate aftermath notes, is that educationalist elitism gained currency of an election that many people I know invested huge during her husband’s administration in the 1990s. My amounts of hope and energy only to lose everything, mom worked in a program in Kentucky called Parent And returning to fundamentals holds a particular poignancy.

Child Education, or PACE, during that era. The idea was I’m grateful for the opportunity to do some manual that by helping parents attain their GEDs and providing labor because it reminds me of where I come from. It early education to their children, the cycle of generationreminds me of the tobacco I’ve cut, the rough carpentry al poverty would be broken. But I remember my mom work on McMansions and houses I’ve painted in new noting at the time that the jobs that were supposed to subdivisions, and the seasonal stores I’ve set up and torn become available through educational advancement down in shopping malls. It reminds me of the rhythm of never seemed to materialize. Meanwhile, the wealth gap work before I went into debt to get a fancy Ivy League widened, and the big financial gains went to financial degree and cultivated the kind of professional network managers and tech entrepreneurs. that would allow me to pursue a career in journalism.

Now, the technological innovations undergirding One advantage of work that is not very intellectually President Clinton’s “bridge to the 21st Century” have demanding is that it encourages of meditative frame of hollowed out even the creative economy. Since everyone mind that can present some revelations if you’re paying is a content creator, professional journalists and musicians attention. I’ve had some time to think find it almost impossible to commodify about the value we place on work, our work because we’re competing in If Democrats want to a marketplace where content is free. and how strange it is that the work that delivers the most tangible results win in 2020, they need Hence the surreal turn of events that — grounds maintenance, bathing elan economic program finds an Ivy League-educated journalist like myself making ends meet by raking derly and infirm people, taking care of that’s compelling to leaves. children, working the grill in a restauMost of the people I know who rant kitchen or bussing tables — is that people on both sides are my age — writers, editors, artists, which pays the least. The message of the cultural divide. programmers, web designers and every teenager hears from parents food service workers in their thirties and school guidance counselors is: and forties — haven’t particularly prospered during the Work hard and you won’t have to spend your life working Obama administration. We supported Hillary Clinton behind a cash register at McDonald’s. But, let’s face it, because we’re invested in the project of multiculturalism someone will. There aren’t enough teenagers to fill all the and LGBTQ equality. For many rural whites in places like essential but low paying jobs that make society run.

Kentucky, what we experienced as an affirmation of our The way that work has been structured over the past cosmopolitan identity feels more like a social demotion. three decades is one of the unsettling questions underThat such sentiments are laced with racism, misogyny neath the political convulsion that we’re experiencing. and homophobia doesn’t make them any less real to the And let me be really clear here: It’s just one of the root people who harbor them. causes we have to confront. No economic analysis should If the Democrats want to win back the White House overshadow the role of white supremacy and patriarchy in four years, they need to devise an economic proas drivers of Trump’s election. gram that is compelling to people on both sides of the Just before the election, the New Yorker published cultural divide. That conversation needs to begin right a fascinating overview by George Packer of the social now. If they wait until the spring of 2019, when they start forces that have produced this moment. The article’s poll-testing candidates, it will be too late. single biggest insight is encapsulated in a quote from

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Somewhat lost in the ongoing Trumping of our nation is the curious case of North Carolina, where our sitting governor is treating this last election like a game of musical chairs.

Republicans across the land are shouting down dissent by insisting that Americans who did not vote for Trump — who at last count outweighed the ones who did by some 1.7 million votes — just shut up and eat the results of the election, which their candidate won.

But in North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory took his loss in much the same manner as a dictator, refusing to cede the election that he now trails by almost 7,000 votes and searching, desperately, for a ghost in the machine.

He’s blamed untrained poll workers. He’s blamed the media. He’s blamed voter fraud — not the kind that the state’s (illegal) voter ID bill would have addressed, the other kind. He’s blamed the LGBTQ community and its allies for refusing to negotiate on human rights. It’s like a child throwing a tantrum, or a con man who’s reached the end of the line.

Listeners to the emergency state Board of Elections meeting on Sunday were treated to 90 minutes of cautious, droning legalese followed by a ham-fisted attempt to lump Durham County — where challenger Roy Cooper won by almost 60 points and 90,000 votes — with Bladen County, where McCrory is challenging a couple hundred absentee ballots and leaving the door open for a criminal investigation.

This was all in an effort to have the state BOE assert jurisdiction over the counties where McCrory didn’t like the results, a road that could lead the General Assembly, in its infinite wisdom, to end up trashing the entire election and simply name the next governor itself.

And of all the twisted storylines that have emerged from the 2016 election, this has got to be the most un-American of them all.

The rest of the hearing has been kicked over to Tuesday morning, with the results coming after we go to press. But we have already heard enough.

Instead of attempting a coup by the state legislature, instead of negating an entire election, we have another idea.

It’s time to let it go, Governor. Time to join Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and, yes, Hillary Rodham Clinton with all the other carcasses in the pile.

It’s over.

And be thankful you didn’t make it even worse than it already is.

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IT JUST MIGHT WORK

Sticking together

by Jordan Green

People I know and care about are frightened by the election of Donald Trump.

A Latina friend told me her father, a naturalized citizen who was born in Mexico, had someone tell him: “You better watch out, or you’re going to be deported.” A black business owner in High Point said she feels like maybe she should hide her assets. Gay friends are worried about a rollback of hard-earned civil rights, including marriage equality. Another friend feels sickened by the knowledge that roughly half of the electorate supports racism.

The most opportune time to stop Trump was clearly during the campaign, and it will be 10 times harder now that he has been duly elected as president of the United States. Many of us, sadly, underestimated his appeal and didn’t recognize the breadth of rage and resentment from our fellow citizens. Clearly, Trump’s supporters weren’t going to be persuaded by anything the press said about their candidate, but I wish I had made the case more forcefully to radical left readers that voting for Clinton was an essential tactical move that at least would have held open the space for fundamental change. I wish that I had loudly applauded Republicans like Mitt Romney who condemned Trump to counteract the Democratic partisans who were too consumed with glee over the apparent crackup of the GOP to recognize a potential ally.

In Hitler’s Germany, the most important task was to stand with Jews, communists, homosexuals and Romani — the most marginal and vulnerable of society who were targeted as part of a systematic effort to build an ethno-nationalist base of support underneath an authoritarian leader. In Trump’s America, the most important task is likewise to stand with Muslims, undocumented immigrants, refugees, black folks and queer people. We can’t do that if we turn on each other. If we’re going to present a strong united front to defend the most vulnerable among us, we cannot turn on each other. It’s easy but not productive for Democrats to blame the radical left for being too precious about their vote and holding out on Hillary, and too easy for the radical left to blame the Democrats for laying the groundwork for fascism by pursuing military adventures and embracing policies that favored the rich while leaving working people behind.

It’s easy to blame people in rural America for Trump’s rise, but there are many progressive people in places like Stokes County who feel isolated and deserve our support. The truth is that all of us need each other to save our democracy. Although it feels impossible, we must not fail.

In the face of crushing repression, it’s tempting for activists to narrowly focus on their own causes and dismiss others as unaffordable luxuries. Other social actors, even Muslims and immigrants and certainly some journalists and celebrities, will try to align themselves with the new administration in hopes of cutting the best deal they can for themselves. Still others will retreat and hope their silence protects them. It’s an illusion to think of any of those strategies will save us, because ultimately they will allow Trump to pick off his opponents one by one until his power is completely consolidated. Our only hope for saving our democracy and providing safety for everyone is to stick together, all for one and one for all.

FRESH EYES

On kindness, safety pins and human nature Last weekend, I held a small musical gathering at my home and served up tea, cookies and safety pins. FYI, it’s a challenge to find a safety pin these days.

Even my drycleaner staby PL Byrd ples his inventory tags into my clothes now. I went to three stores before I found one small pack of pins. It appeared the “you are safe with me” safety-pin movement had ginned up support in Winston-Salem, and it felt good to be a part of it.

I had no idea that a safety pin could cause so much controversy but, as the proverb states, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Shortly after the idea caught fire, several bloggers pushed this simple show of solidarity and kindness into the “white privilege” category.

Now, I have this weird idea about white privilege.

You may or may not agree, but hear me out. Is your skin white? If you answered yes, then guess what, you’re privileged. Specifically, if you’re white, there’s a very high probability you’re not afraid that your child could be killed when walking down the street wearing a hoodie (aka racial profiling) or that government agents will knock on your door in the middle of the night and take your daddy to a deportation center (an immigrant reality). You are privileged. Accept that as fact. End of Chapter One. Chapter Two: More than 500,000 children living in North Carolina will go to bed hungry tonight and wake up hungry tomorrow. About 150,000 of those children are white, approximately 165,000 are black, and close to 185,000 are Latinx. Can we overlook the hunger and poverty of 150,000 kids simply because they’re white? Please don’t talk about white privilege to the mother of a hungry child. It’s too much. If you can find it in your heart, please take the white-privilege argument off the table during the safety-pin discussion. It has been divisively overfed and may benefit from a short fast.

Those who back the idea of (mostly) non-violent emotional support for any person who feels maligned, abused, bullied, harassed or fearful are not thoughtless, so how did the people who responded favorably to the safety pin become disparaged? I don’t know about y’all, but this confuses the heck out of me. All of a sudden, mostly good and basically average people who are standing for kindness, including some who may have little other than a smile and safety pin to offer the world right now, are being shredded by people who seem to need only an eggshell’s space of room to create a

maelstrom of negativity aimed at concerned and yes, okay, maybe impulsively kind people.

Hello! We’re human. Being kind is natural to us.

There is no shame in kindness. The safety pin idea has touched the hearts of hundreds, or thousands, or maybe millions of people who are worn out by meanness. It has sparked a spontaneous outpouring of compassion. It has given many people a purpose, a way out of darkness into light. It is a movement that feels helpful and pure, non-political, respectful and generally good for the whole world.

Most of us will never have an idea this simple or brilliant, ever. And if that bums you out, think of it this way: It’s not your turn to be recognized as the creator of a brilliant idea. Give someone else a chance to shine. Maybe we’ll all rise above our egos, recognize our vulnerability and resolve to embrace the best parts of our common humanity during the long haul ahead.

Maybe it’s time to thank the Good God A’mighty or whomever you pray to for bestowing these challenges upon us. Maybe we’ve been given another chance to tune our collective soul to the job we signed up for which, last time I checked in with my heart, was to love each other.

Sometimes that particular lesson comes disguised as tragedy, discomfort or controversy. Sometimes it manifests as rowdy yet respectful discourse, dusted with humor and sealed with a kiss. That’s if we’re lucky. Or open. Or however it works for you. Ain’t no such thing as one-size-fits-all soul work. Every human being is connected to this big fat loveball of a planet through a substance known as universal soul shine. If you get lost, simply follow the path of kindness. It’s the route illuminated by grace, the one that leads to your soul’s true home.

Safety in numbers, right? Let’s stick together.

That’s what pins are for.

Author PL Byrd is an animal-loving, tree-hugging work in progress in Winston-Salem. Read more of her writing at humanwords.com.

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Gift Guide 2016

Keeping it local In some ways, all business is local.

Most of us make and spend our money within a few miles of our homes. Most of us work for small businesses. And many of us own our own businesses, capturing what pieces we can of the revenue stream as it flows through our cities.

But what we mean by “local” in our annual gift guide is something specific: businesses that are uniquely ours, offering distinct products, signature touches or anything else that declares them to be of this place.

And the point of the whole thing is to convince everyone to buy local this season.

You know why. Every dollar spent at a local business is an investment in your community, a patriotic nod to the industriousness of your city, an exclamation of pride of place.

Local business owners are your neighbors, your friends, the people you see at the grocery store or at your kids’ schools. One even wrote these words.

And when it comes to craftsmanship, curation, service, design and taste, Triad business owners do it better than anyone else.

On average, American consumers plan on spending $935.58 — the National Retail Federation has got this thing down to a science — between now and New Year’s Day. And it’s realistic to assume that much of this spending will not go to local businesses, because at some point you’ve just got to go to Target.

But everybody can spend something locally. And we think there’s enough in these pages to find gifts for everyone on your list.

Happy holidays, everyone. And thanks for keeping it local.

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Vida Pour Loose Leaf Tea Shop & Wellness Lounge 412 State St. GSO, vidapourtea.com Sip, shop and relax at Vida Pour, featuring organic, fair-trade and custom blended teas; casual and traditional teaware; local pottery and art; cruelty-free apothecary from bee pollen to beard oil; and small-batch everything.

Revolution Cycles 1907 Spring Garden St. GSO, revolutioncyclesnc.com The founders of Revolution Cycles were tired of the same old boring bikes, boring clothes and the boring shops that sold them.

So they started a Revolution. To join them, all you need is a little vision, a sense of humor and a willingness to get out there and ride.

Revolutionary bikes, gear and service, with a beer bar at the Spring Garden shop and a manifesto on the website insisting that riding a bicycle is a revolutionary act.

Schiffman’s Jewelers 225 S. Elm St. GSO, Friendly Center GSO, 137 S. Stratford Road WS, schiffmans.com The Schiffman family has provided precious metals, gemstones and giftware to families of the Triad for more than 120 years, establishing a legacy and a bank of institutional knowledge that is incomparable. With jewelry and timepieces for every taste, and collections by the most prestigious designers in the world, Schiffman’s remains a classic. This sterling silver and 18K yellow gold Infinity diamond X ring by Lagos retails for $995.

Oscar Oglethorpe 226 S. Elm St. GSO, oscaroglethorpe.com The friends who started Oscar Oglethorpe in downtown Greensboro began with a simple premise: Prescription eyewear should look great, hold up well and be affordable.

Together they created a new way of buying high-fashion, high-quality eyewear that offers a boutique look at a big-box cost.

New glasses start at $150 — every pair, every day — and the in-house stylists are expert at choosing the right frames.

Hundreds of unique styles to make sure your loved ones look great and see better this holiday season. Get $25 for yourself if you buy a gift certificate for $150 or more for someone else! Valid until Dec. 24.

Scuppernong Books 304 S. Elm St. GSO, scuppernongbooks.com Scuppernong Books has become an essential part of downtown Greensboro, an independent bookstore featuring fiction and poetry, with a remarkable children’s section and a broad range of titles. Within the store is a café serving organic coffee and espresso, wine and beer, and fresh sandwiches and sides made in house. Scuppernong Books also hosts hundreds of events a year and brings in writers from across the country. The owners live up to the responsibility that comes with a community bookstore with an openness to ideas, a respect for all the individuals that make up our communities and a willingness to have fun doing so. Shop in the store or online.

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Black Mountain Chocolate/ Chad’s Chai 732 N. Trade St. W-S, blackmountainchocolate.com, chadschai.com Black Mountain Chocolate made its name in a downtown Winston-Salem factory with small-batch chocolate crafted from heirloom cocoa beans; the chocolate, cookies and other confections have since become holiday staples, giving a local alternative to mass-produced sweets. Also among the holiday offerings this year is Chad’s Chai & Tea, a local loose-leaf chai tea company that hand-blends a bevy of all-natural flavors, though the original may be the best you’ve ever had from chai to mint green tea to s’mores! Shop in the downtown store or at the website.

Hudson’s Hill 527 S. Elm St. GSO, hudsonshill.com The link between past and present is apparent at Hudson’s Hill, where an obsession with the old gives way to a contemporary interpretation of the classic. Every good has a story, from denim from the heart of Greensboro, custom leatherwork, brands made in the USA with emphasis on North Carolina, and a curated apothecary. The emphasis is on quality and timelessness, and goods with a purpose. Shop at the Elm Street store or online.

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Local Honey Artisan Hair Salon & 233 Commerce Place GSO, localhoneys Beyond award-wining boutique hairdres Salon when searching for the perfect gift. collection of men’s grooming items from b tache combs and waxes. True to their nam on all the locally sourced honey they carry CDs and vinyl from local bands, T-shirts an from a top designer with roots in the area.

& Apothecary salon.com ssing, consider Local Honey The store offers an immense beard oils, and balms to musme you’ll not want to miss out y. Make your gift complete with nd signed books on fashion .

Fourth & Trade 131 W. Fourth St. W-S, fourthandtrade.com In its pursuit of the different, Fourth & Trade is a true one-of-akind retail experience in downtown Winston-Salem. They invite you to come explore, discover and shop in their eclectic, historic wonderland. Gift ideas include unique items, original design products, home accents and original art.

While you’re there, enjoy their wine bar and feel free to “sip and shop.” Pets are always welcome here. Also visit their website and shop online at fourthandtrade. com.

Kleur Lifestyle Supply & Makerspace 724 Trade St. W-S, kleurshop.com Kleur is a home to handmade and found goods, created and curated from near and far. It is hub for idea sharing, for learning new skills, for building and creating as a community. It stands for hard work and empathy, thriving on collaboration and the pleasures people get from learning to love what they do. Clothing. Jewelry. Apothecary. Flora. Home design. Kleur represents more than 40 lines of goods, singular in their dedication to craft, available both in the downtown Winston-Salem shop and online.

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Area Modern Furniture 515S. Elm St. GSO, areamod.com Area’s curated line of modern, upholstered furniture has its roots in North Carolina, where all of it was conceived and constructed. Manufacturers include Younger Furniture, Blu Dot, Gus Modern, Jonathan Adler and Pablo Designs, as well as a line designed in-house by custom or consignment. Find it all at their Greensboro and Chapel Hill locations, with an online store coming soon.

Camino Bakery 310 W. Fourth St. W-S, caminobakery.com Everybody’s favorite downtown Winston-Salem meeting spot has for the holidays gift baskets full of their fresh, handmade goods of the savory and sweet variety, as well as a line of merchandise that includes T-shirts and shell glassware. Order online at caminobakery.com.

Loco For Coco Gourmet Chocolates 1616 Battleground Ave. GSO, locoforcocochocolate.com A curated collection of truffles from American chocolatiers anchors Loco For Coco Gourmet Chocolates, available in hand-sorted boxes for the holiday season. In addition, they carry sugar-free truffles, locally sourced toffee and fudge, a huge selection of dark chocolate, dipped fruits, pralines, organic, gluten-free and vegan items. Have them with coffee in the Battleground Avenue shop or order online at locoforcocochocolate.com.

Mary’s Antiques 607 S. Elm St. GSO, Mary’s Antiques has anchored the district in downtown Greensboro for more than 40 years, specializing in architectural elements like doors, shutters, mantels and other period hardware, with curious finds among the goods. In-store shopping only.

Mickey D and Mary welcome you to the shop!

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Mack and Mack 220 S. Elm St. GSO, mamclothing.com Fresh off an exciting rebranding, the venerable Greensboro boutique still specializes in making the types of clothing women want to wear: Easy separates designed to dress up or dress down, with a timeless elegance and requiring minimal care. Mack and Mack also carries a line of distinctive accessories and original work from local artisans, like these scarves from local artist Judi Magier, which retail for $120. Shop in the store or online.

Design Archives 342 S. Elm St. GSO, 636 W. Fourth St. W-S, shopdesignarchives.com Kit Rodenbough has been creating, documenting and repurposing fashion for decades in the Triad. Now with shops in downtown Greensboro and Winston-Salem, she oversees dozens of local makers, curators and stylists with the most hyperlocal selection in the Triad with souvenirs, apparel, bath and body products, jewelry and home décor. Shop the entire collection at once online at shopdesignarchives.com.

Shelf Life Art & Supply 2178 Lawndale Drive GSO, shelflifeart.com Visit Shelf Life Art & Supply Co. for the finest new and used arts & crafts supplies, professional custom framing, and art classes and workshops in the Triad. We carry a wide selection of supplies for drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, fiber arts and more, including: Arches watercolor paper, Dr. PH Martin’s ink, Gamblin oil paints, Yupo paper, calligraphy supplies, canvases, fabric & yarn, gift sets and vintage supplies.

Havana Phil’s Cigar Co. 1628 Battleground Ave. GSO, havanaphils.com Founded in Greensboro in 2010 by longtime cigar enthusiast Phil Segal, Havana Phil’s is a haven for the true aficionado. Featuring a private Davidoff Lounge and the complimentary Rocky Patel Lounge, Havana Phil’s offers a wide selection of the world’s finest cigars, housed in a beautiful and spacious walk-in humidor. The limited, exclusive Havana Phil’s 5th Anniversary Davidoff, a blend created exclusively in collaboration with and for Havana Phil, is a wonderful gift for the cigar lover on your list. There are an abundance of other gift ideas — Phil and his staff can help you find the perfect item for that special person.

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Teens and restaurants provide hope for action

by Eric Ginsburg

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he room fell silent as about a dozen teenagers took over the staircase in the back of the room, turning to face the crowd seated around tables with white linens. Restaurateur Kris Fuller stood near the door, listening alongside the owners of Winston-Salem’s beloved Sweet Potatoes. At a table in the back of the room, KimBees tea company owner Kimberly Brown of Greensboro watched with rapt attention, and someone else at the table filmed the performance on an iPad. The teenagers, part of the growing tradition at Authoring Action in Winston-Salem, performed their poetic prose in turns, popcorning from one voice to the next, simultaneously praising the organization, offering vulnerable confessionals and making proud declarations. Falling somewhere between a headlining act and a series of toasts, the performance capped the seventh annual Taste the South gala designed to honor and support Authoring Action, an arts-based nonprofit founded in 2002 in part to combat youth violence.

Food at events like this is generally ERIC GINSBURG Taste the South attendees look on as Authoring Action participants recite powerful poetic prose last week. catered, though often by an anonymous company serving up basic and relatively unto grab and go. But my favorite may have been Sweet It’s something I thought about, while standing at the inspired fare. Even at $50 a head, attendees Potatoes, a soul food institution that should require back of the room and watching those teenagers on the at such high-end functions aren’t typically coming for no introduction or explanation.

Luckily their table stairs splash their creativity across the floor; not everythe dinner, though that does help, but instead for the was positioned closest to the door to the main room, one can afford to attend events like this, though the cause, and maybe, at least a little, to be seen. meaning I hit their line first before my plate ran out of ones who can make important work such as Authoring But this fundraiser, held on Nov. 17 at the Milton space.

Action possible. But the rest of us can still do our part Rhodes Center in downtown Winston-Salem, was Why owners Stephanie Tyson and Vivián Joiner don’t by supporting the restaurants and businesses that different. For starters, a half dozen restaurants pitched own several restaurants in town is beyond me, but if sponsor, underwrite and supply causes we believe in. in with food, including Sweet Potatoes, Fuller’s Crafted they’re interested, someone with capital should jump I watched the teenagers and reflected that maybe (which just expanded to the Camel City), Finnigan’s behind them as fast as possible. our future isn’t as dark as it might seem. And I looked Wake, the Porch, Dewey’s, Bib’s and Krankies.

Most people didn’t come for the food, but I can’t around the fringes of the room at the owner of the Each served up an item or two, many of them have been entirely alone at the event dubbed Taste the Porch, the volunteers clearing plates, the employees featuring hometown Texas Pete, like Finnigan’s, which South. Not that I didn’t want to support Authoring scooping servings and remembered the significant role offered its traditional popular mac & cheese and a Action, because it’s a more than worthy cause that I that the local food scene can play in our push towards hotter variety doused in Pete. gained a deeper appreciation for that night, and one a better tomorrow, too.

Hoots poured beers and several vineyards showed up that I feel a kinship with because it seeks to influence too, as did local hangover cure Sunshine energy drink. positive change through the power of With separate tables for each business, words. But I admit that it’s the name no lines ever built up, making it easy to Pick of the Week Read more at of the event that first caught my get at the abundance of tasty food.

Sharing is caring, but being greedy is just plain authoringaction.org. attention, rather than the noble reason Like the snack-sized cheesecake bites rude beneath. from Dewey’s that looked so cute and Potluck @ Kleur (W-S), Friday, 7 p.m.

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I’m not an alcoholic I’ve been getting a lot of headaches lately, and not the kind that comes from a night of fun. The jury—i.e. my doctor—is still out on what’s causing them, but all I know is the results are devastating: I haven’t had a drink in

by Kat Bodrie a week.

Let me be quick to tell you I’m not an alcoholic. I know; that’s exactly what an alcoholic would say. But I consider myself a booze enthusiast. I love the taste more than the intoxication.

Okay, sometimes I like the intoxication. As a Type-A personality fo’ sho’, a glass of wine at the end of the day can help me relax. (And so another generation of young women become their mothers….)

I love the flavor of a good, dry red on the tongue, making the mouth pucker just a little before letting the oak, berry and cocoa settle, or the bitter-weird hardiness of a not-too-hoppy IPA, stroking the throat like a massage, or the milky smoothness of an unfiltered sake. My God, alcohol can be wonderful.

I know you and I are just now meeting, and so far this might seem too much like a happy drunk shoving into you at the bar and spilling ESB and TMI into your lap, but all this is to say I have a passion for beer, wine, liquor, liqueur, vintages, vineyards, viticulture, barrels, brewers, breweries, distilleries and, most of all, any of it that’s local. In fact, I have a bumper sticker from MenaRick Vineyard & Winery that reads: “Yadkin Valley is for wine, Napa is for car parts.”

Let me repeat: I am not an alcoholic.

A few years ago, I wrote the Wines and Vines column for Winston-Salem Monthly, covering topics like Yadkin Valley wineries (RayLen, Elkin Creek), sangria (I got killer recipes from Bruce Heye, “the Wine Guy”), mulled wine (à la Westbend Winery and Brewery) and tips about drinking and weight loss in the New Year (yeah, I’m not a huge fan of that one).

Since then, I’ve been to a ton of craft breweries in

The author (far end of the bar) visits Fainting Goat Spirits in Greensboro as part of Tap Hopper Tours.

the Triad, a bunch of wineries, a beer festival in my hometown of Statesville and a Greensboro booze bus called Tap Hopper Tours. And I have a thirst for more.

Still not an alcoholic.

Assuming I can drink again by, say, Christmas, I think I’ll survive long enough to give you some decent ideas for where and what to drink in the Triad and maybe even convince you of my premonition about the next big “craft” phase.

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I may not be nearly as innovative as Eric Ginsburg, this column’s former author — you will not see me making my own craft beer — but I hope you’ll stick around for the ride.

Hop in the back. I’ll be the DD... for now.

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When Putnam finally tallied the votes the next day, the result came to a tie.

The fate of the $340 raised fell into the hands of the performers, who had not voted, like casting an electoral tie to the House of Representatives.

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atty Sheets scrawled the note in blocky capital letters on a flimsy bar napkin as hardcore quintet Thieves for Jesus — the final act on the bill for the Nov. 18 Battle of the Benefits — thrashed through their set in the dark yet bubbly front corner of New York Pizza.

“This feels like when the election results were coming in,” the note read. “If the Humane Society wins, I wanna start a fire.”

Sheets — Greensboro’s musical gadfly — had played a solo set earlier in the night, delivering his alt-country through an Epiphone jumbo acoustic guitar, occasionally punctuated by distortion kicked in with a fuzz pedal.

But that night’s show wasn’t about the music.

Sheets knew it. He made the crowd sure they knew it, too.

“In case you just got here, this is a benefit con- Hardcore quintent Thieves for Jesus pushed hard for ANTHONY HARRISON cert,” Sheets said early in his set, “and I’m on the Team Refugee at the Nov. 18 Battle of the Benefits. team supporting human beings, not animals. It’s shower — “No real deep meaning behind it,” he said — and not like I don’t like animals, but the Humane Society… They Putnam placed himself on Team Humane Society. have tons of money. They have high-dollar commercials all Yet, when push came to shove, even Putnam’s loyalty wathe time, asking for your money. They don’t need it from you vered. tonight.”

“Even though I’m not on the refugee team, I want to say, His rhetoric intensified as his set went on.

‘Go Team Refugee,’” Putnam said at the start of his set. “I “F*** animals,” Sheets said between songs. “Yeah, I’m hope you all vote for Team Refugee, because they need us the sayin’ it. You could give your $5 to people who’re fleeing their most. countries because of war, gangs, other bulls***. We don’t even “Here, your voice matters,” he added. “I know your voice know how that feels… yet. Who knows in the next four years, didn’t matter in this election, which sucks d***. Now, we’re you know? But those animals’ll be just fine.” stuck with some f***ing fascist bulls***. Baby hands.”

The Battle of the Benefits pitted two teams of three perThe attacks against the president-elect didn’t end there. formers against each other in a contest to raise funds for eiOne of Putnam’s poems, “Idiocracy,” was written about ther the Humane Society, one of the preeminent animal-rights Trump before he won the presidency. charities, or Church World Service, which supports refugee “Hook, line and sinker and we definitely swallowed it,” he resettlement. spat. “Ready to build some walls to finish it. Mental footnotes Sheets, Thieves for Jesus and singer-songwriter Douglas of fascism. Skeptics sweating and stocking ammo. Apocalypse Moore Jr. composed Team Refugee, and pop-punk band All Now and Idiocracy no longer fiction stories.”

My Circuits, singer-songwriter Josh Crocker and spoken-word Despite the popular backlash opposing Trump’s anti-impoet Kevin Putnam — the event organizer — made up Team migration stances, toward the end of the night, the Humane Humane Society.

Society led in voting.

Per Putnam, Sheets wasn’t on the original bill.

Then, Thieves for Jesus tore into their set, and frontman Rob “Matty came to me and said, ‘Dude, I wanna play this Joyce launched into his own pro-refugee polemic. show,’” Putnam recalled after Sheets’ set concluded. “I origi“We’re here to fund some s*** that’s important,” Joyce said. nally had two other spoken-word poets lined up, but they fell “Some of you may be aware — you may not be aware — that through, so it worked out.” these people are fleeing human warehouses, also known as Putnam wanted something like Sheets’ tirade to happen. ‘refugee camps,’ which sounds a lot better, right?”

“I hope people grab the mic and voice their own opinions,” Joyce lauded CWS’ efforts, pointing out, “Coming into a Putnam said in an interview before the concert began. “People country you don’t understand because you’ve been in a tiny aren’t always vocal, and their voices need to be heard. We f***ing village your whole life is debilitating. No offense to need a good stand against what’s been thrown at us.” the f***ing dogs or cats or the f***ing rabbits or whatever, Putnam, a spoken-word poet originally from Schenectady, but these are human beings who’ve seen the same s*** these NY, has been organizing benefit shows around Greensboro animals have. almost from the moment he moved to the Triad five years ago.

“I just put humans above animals,” Joyce quipped later.

“I want people to get involved, and people often don’t know “That’s my thing.” how,” Putnam said. “Even if it’s putting five bucks in a bucket, Tensions ran high. By the middle of Thieves for Jesus’ set, they’re getting involved.”

Sheets — who’d implored people to change their votes — kept His choices of charity for this concert came to him in the screaming, “Go humans! Go humans!”

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There is this concept called a panopticon, first introduced by Jeremy Bentham,” artist Tomas van Houtryve said from the stage at SECCA. “Later Michel Foucault talked about this. This was the idea that you could build the ideal prison where you would have a central watchtower that could see into all of the cells at all times. And what he said was interesting.

You would not have to actually watch all the prisoners at all times, they would just have to feel watched and that would be enough to change their behavior.”

Houtryve stood in the auditorium on Nov. 17, presenting an aerial photograph taken by a drone of the infamous Tent City created by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix in front of a moderately sized audience. The photo was from “Blue Sky Days,” Houtryve’s contribution to Dispatches, now on display at SECCA through Feb. 19.

“I was given a sheriff’s deputy from the press office to accompany me,” Houtryve told the audience. “I had read in the news that [Arpaio] wanted to get some drones to fly over his prison. I said, ‘Geez with all of these watchtowers, video cameras and fences, why would you even need any drones at this facility?’ And he said, ‘It’s because of the psychological impact.’”

Houtryve is the only participant who has two bodies of work featured in the Dispatches exhibit. Blue Sky Days” and “Traces of Exile” — both funded by grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting — fall into two of the five themes the larger exhibit is divided into: Post-9-11 Realities and Borders & Migration.

Ecological Justice, New Forms of Social Action and the 2016 US Presidential Election complete the remaing thematic zones.

While drones may have initially been introduced into society as a tech toy, it didn’t take long for the government and businesses to utilize them for military and commercial use.

“I think that there are some [uses] that are really interesting,” Houtryve said. “But there are a couple of them that really raise questions for me. I don’t think that enough reporting has been done or we have asked ourselves the right questions. This may look cool now, but do we want to have a hostile relationship with the sky that is filled with these devices that can spy on us or can target us. If we let this technology go unchecked, that’s the world we will be living in.”

In “Blue Sky Days,” Houtryve attached a camera to a drone and traveled across America to take aerial pictures of potential terrorist strike targets and other areas where drones aren’t used for combat, such as the Arizona prison. The scenes consist of people praying, taking a walk in a park, working and even attending a funeral. The idea to use a drone itself to tell the story of drone warfare came to him while on a National Geographic photoshoot.

“I have covered several conflicts before, so I watch conflicts around the world and see if there’s a way to

Tomas van Houtryve’s collection of work “Blue Sky Days” is part of the larger exhibit at SECCA that runs through Feb. 19.

cover them,” Houtryve said from the stage. “I had an assignment for National Geographic where I had to take an aerial picture of a mine in Peru and it was at a real high altitude. One of the ideas an engineer had from National Geographic was to use an aerial drone.

Since the drone war had been in the back of my mind I said, ‘Hmm, I could use this piece of technology to talk about this thing.’”

There are several reasons that Houtryve felt that it was important to capture and present such images using drone technology.

“It’s a new technology that can be used for new things and bad things,” Houtryve said. “I think what it does is no longer make the sky a neutral place, right? It used to be we would look at the sky and see birds and airplanes but nothing that could bug us or spy on us; now that has changed.”

Drone warfare, in Houtryve’s opinion, is not necessarily limited to airstrikes.

“When I first came up with this project, it definitely meant drones used for warfare overseas in a military capacity to kill people,” Houtryve said. “But there is a conflict and there is a balance of power that has to be shifted based on who’s going to hold on to this technology and who’s going to be able to use it for free speech or for monitoring. That’s not quite war but there is definitely a conflict.”

While Houtryve’s collections are geared towards

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“I am heartened by this partnership with art,” Houtryve said. “I feel like there is a real distrust and polarization of the news media. I think you if you can combine the two, you can have important things that are getting stuck or underfunded in the media and bring it to people in a way they can connect with it on a level of beauty.”

Pick of the Week Genius, thou name is Luna Artist signing @ Acme Comics (GSO), Friday, 7 p.m.

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here must be something University, 45-14, on Nov. 12. in the air around the TriUnfortunately for another Triad team, postseason ad this fall — and no, I’m hopes have already extinguished. But their remarkable not talking about the smog efforts deserve recognition. rolling in from the mountains The Winston-Salem State University Rams claimed due to wildfires last week. the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Quite a few college teams football title, going 9-2 like the Aggies but remaining met and even exceeded experfect in conference play. They clinched their final

by Anthony Harrison pectations in highly successful game in a relatively close matchup against Bowie State seasons, namely NC A&T UniUniversity in Salem, Va. on Nov. 12. versity’s football team, Wake Forest University men’s Like A&T, they couldn’t have achieved what they did soccer and the Winston-Salem State University Rams without a star running back. football squad.

Redshirt sophomore Kerrion Moore set a CIAA First, let’s look at the Aggies.

Championship game record with 177 yards carried. His Greensboro’s blue-and-gold bulldogs may have 68-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter proved dropped the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title to be his most sensational of the game, pushing the game against perennial rival NC Central University on Rams to an insurmountable 16-point lead; Moore also Nov. 19, but they must not be too down in the dumps garnered MVP honors. over it. Fact of the matter is, A&T has delivered one of Thanks partly to their conference crown, Winthe most solid campaigns in program history and made ston-Salem State earned a No. 7 seed in the Division a name for itself as one of the best teams in HBCU II FCS tournament, traveling to Long Island Universifootball for 2016. ty-Post on Nov. 19.

The 9-2 Aggies relied on high-octane offense this After both teams scored two touchdowns in the fall, averaging 37.5 points per game, consistently outfirst quarter, the undefeated Pioneers posted stifling scoring their opponents by more than defense in the second quarter, holding two touchdowns. the visiting Rams to a field goal while Fact of the matter Perhaps the brightest star on this putting 20 more points on the board. fearsome offense is firecracker Tarik The Rams refused to lie down, is, A&T has delivCohen, an All-American running back though. In the second half, they battled ered one of the and Walter Payton Award candidate for back and outscored the Pioneers 24-14, best offensive player in NCAA Football with the defense shutting down LIUmost solid camChampionship Subdivision. Over this in the fourth quarter. paigns in program Post season, Cohen averaged an astonishing But it wasn’t enough — the final score, history.

138 rushing yards per game, 7.6 yards 48-41, favored the home team, and the per handoff and 18 dashes into the end Pioneers remained lossless. zone. And that’s just his ground game: Across town from Bowman Grey Cohen, an adept receiver, also tallied 338 receiving Stadium, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons continued yards and an additional TD reception. He may be small their startling dominance in the world of collegiate at 5-foot-6, but he’s one to watch. men’s soccer.

Head coach Rod Broadway has also garnered plenty At this point, Wake has put up a phenomenal 16of attention. The sixth-year leader of the Aggies qual2-3 record. Both losses were one-goal shutouts, first ified as a finalist for the Eddie Robinson FCS Coach of against St. Louis University at home on Aug. 26, then the Year Award. The consideration comes deservedly; at Clemson University on Sept. 30.

Broadway has done a lot to rebuild a flagging program The Deacs would soon have their revenge against into a powerhouse. No matter what, he must take Clemson, though. pride that, under his leadership, A&T recorded its first They steamrolled through the Atlantic Coast Confervictory over a Division-I Football Bowl Subdivision ence tournament and met the Tigers at the finals in team on Sept. 10 against Kent State University in a Charleston, SC on Nov. 13. There, Wake pounded Clemquadruple-overtime, 39-36 slugfest. son 3-1 for the ACC title.

This tremendous season has led to A&T’s first-ever Last year, the Deacons claimed the No. 1 overall seed at-large bid in the NCAA FCS playoffs. The team has in the NCAA Championship, yet suffered a heartplayed in four previous tournaments, but not since breaking loss at home against a surging No. 8-seeded 2003.

Stanford University Cardinal. This year, they slipped a One hitch may disrupt the Aggies’ plans: As of this bit in the rankings. They’re now the No. 2 overall seed. writing, it’s unclear whether starting quarterback LaSuch placement in the bracket set them up with a mar Raynard, who has missed the past two games, will first-round bye and home advantage for their first two play on Saturday at Richmond University. However, games. backup QB Oluwafemi Bamiro stepped in to finish the Coastal Carolina University traveled to Winston-Sajob against Kent State and later won at Delaware State lem on Sunday after squeezing past Radford University

in the first round. For their efforts, the Chanticleers earned the privilege of getting shut out by the Demon Deacons, 2-0.

Senior midfielder Jacori Hayes recorded the decisive goal in the 21st minute of the game with assistance from forward Ema Twumasi; that score marked Hayes’ eighth goal of the season. Junior midfielder Luis Argudo, a transfer from Elon University, added insult to injury after netting the second goal 41 minutes later following an open-field steal.

Wake Forest next hosts the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Cougars on Sunday.

To the Aggies and Deacs, the best of luck. Bring it home for the Triad.

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The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (16-2-3) try to get back to the Elite Eight and keep on truckin’ on Sunday evening. The SIUE Cougars (10-4-7) will need more than luck to roar past the Deacs at home. For more information, visit wakeforestsports.com.

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very year, my family sits down for our Thanksgiving meal in the middle of the afternoon,

by Jelisa Castrodale well after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons have been deflated and the undersized high school seniors have finished picking all of the confetti out of their tubas. But before my dad is allowed to slice into the turkey, my mother always makes us go around the table, naming at least one thing that we’re thankful for.

Most years, I’m grateful that no one seems to mind that my contribution to the meal is a plate of carefully arranged gummy worms, but this year, even that won’t cut it. Because 2016 has essentially been a dead raccoon, stuffed with discarded Arby’s bags, set on fire and thrown onto our collective front porch, I don’t have a lot that I’m feeling particularly appreciative about. I’ll try to come up with something before Thursday but, in the meantime, here are some things I’m decidedly not giving thanks for this year.

• The man with a faded “OBUMMER” bumper sticker and a Confederate flag decal who looked at my Hillary Clinton T-shirt and shouted at me to “Get over it.” Really, dude? I know you’re still angry about that time your elementary school was integrated, but you don’t seem like a real authority on How to Move On.

•A nyone who still has a Confederate flag T-shirt, sticker, decal or actual piece of fabric. You lost, 151 years ago.

Now you’re just flying history’s most hateful participation trophy. And you want me to get over a two-week old loss.

• Pumpkin-spiced everything. Cheerios.

Oatmeal. Twinkies. Visine. My corneas smell like faaaall!

• J . Crew Mercantile, which is opening in Winston-Salem’s Thruway Center this week. Mercantile is derived from the 17th Century Italian word for “factory outlet.”

• The woman who held up a ridiculously long checkout line at Whole Foods so she could run back to the produce section to get a different bundle of kale because the one she’d grabbed “didn’t look symmetrical.” Apparently she was taking it home to paint its formal portrait.

•P eople who think they’re somehow superior because they shop at Whole Foods. The only difference between the two of us is that you brought your own shopping bags and I shave my armpits.

•M aking small talk with the super enthusiastic cashiers at Trader Joe’s. No, I didn’t know that it was Marvelous Mango Month. Yes, I have plans for the afternoon. No, I didn’t know that this steak was from Uruguay. Yes, I get hives when I’m uncomfortable. Paper bags are fine.

• The guy who stopped me at the gym and told me that I didn’t need to lift heavy weights because it’s not good for a woman’s body. I assume he knows that from all the time he spent as a woman. Guys. Guys. Stop telling women what they can, can’t, should and shouldn’t do with their own bodies. Also, there’s no way I’m taking any advice from somebody who only benches 105 pounds.

•A nyone who eats one Pop Tart and puts the other one back in the bag.

When did you first realize that you were a serial killer?

•A nyone who eats yellow Starburst.

When did you first realize that you were a serial killer?

•S erial killers. Do you even know how

many podcasts you’re responsible for?

• My neighbor who cooks Brussels sprouts all the time. Thank you, our building smells like the Great Depression.

• The seasonal horse-drawn carriage rides that bring Saturday night traffic to a standstill in downtown Winston-Salem. The next time you want to spend your evening staring at a horse’s ass, just stay home and watch “The O’Reilly Factor.”

• Whatever factory outlet — I mean mercantile — that’s responsible for Donald Trump’s hair.

• Anyone who uses the word ‘coinkydink.’ It is not a coinkydink that we’re both in Trader Joe’s right now. It’s the week of Thanksgiving: Everyone is in Trader Joe’s right now. Also, I’ve heard that it’s Marvelous Mango Month.

• Whoever decides the prep times for Blue Apron recipes. If the recipe card says that it’ll take 20 minutes to prepare, that means I’ll spend five minutes trying to figure out how to cut an acorn squash, five minutes bandaging my sliced finger and 10 minutes weeping in the Wendy’s drive-thru.

(Honestly, this is not the only reason that I’ve quietly sobbed through a mouthful of Baconator Fries.)

• Acorn squash.

• That 15 minutes of deep regret after eating Baconator fries.

• The second order of Baconator fries.

• Anyone who tries to convince you that almond milk tastes just like regular milk. I do not want your dust water.

• Pumpkin spiced dust water.

• Allergy shots. My doctor says that if I take these surprisingly expensive injections twice a week for the next two years, I’ll be immune to pollen. That’ll come in handy when I apply for a job as a honeybee.

• 2016. Seriously, get bent.

Jelisa Castrodale is a freelance writer who lives in Winston-Salem. She enjoys pizza, obscure power-pop records and will probably die alone. Follow her on Twitter @gordonshumway.

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