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Only in New York, kids The kids know their way around New York City — not well enough, say, to secure a safe bar and find a place to stay within a couple

by Brian Clarey hours, as the city so often demanded of their father, but well enough to find their way home on the subway if we were ever to become separated.

Plus, there’s always their phones.

I can gauge their interest in this big city by how seldom they look at their phones while we’re here — and how embarrassed they get when I continually consult my own, because I maybe don’t know my way around like I used to, but I still know how to get to Broadway, dammit.

They felt at home as the lights dimmed inside the Lyceum Theatre for a matinee showing of The Play That Goes Wrong, a high comedic farce that did not disappoint, visibly less so as we moved west to Chelsea and walked a stretch of the High Line. They don’t understand what it’s like

to be in a city that requires you to move: move your feet, move your car, move your ass off my stoop before I call the cops.

Not only does the city never sleep, it never sits still. Its denizens learn that very quickly. A lot has changed here in New York City since I grew up here, but not that.

My own impressions of New York draw heavily from my childhood near here in the 1970s and ’80s, so I’m still always looking for the hustle, the perpetrator, the angle one might take while separating a man from his stuff.

Our last night in town, my wife and I slipped off for dinner after ordering the kids a pizza to eat in — a New York experience of a sort, I suppose. While the younger two napped off the afternoon, our oldest ventured out from our apartment to accept this pizza, and in doing so locked himself out of the place.

He didn’t realize that when a door closes in New York City, quite often it locks up tight.

A lot has changed around here, but not that.

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We wanted to increase our knowledge about Alzheimer’s, particularly underrepresented groups like African Americans and Hispanics. These groups had a disproportionate burden, but there was so little in the literature about Alzheimer’s in these groups, particularly Alzheimer’s relationship to genetics.

— Dr. Goldie Byrd, in News, page 6

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Cover photography by Pivot Point Media Dr. Goldie Byrd, a biology professor at NC A&T University, is leading an innovative effort to bring African Americans into Alzheimer’s research.

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THURSDAY

Art-o-mat retrospective @ SECCA (W-S), 6 p.m.

Art-o-mat founder Clark Whittington gives a talk in the Overlook Gallery to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the worldwide phenomenon. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about other contributing artists and how Art-o-mat provides the public with a way to collect art in a unique and innovative way. For more information, visit secca.org.

Open mic @ Idiot Box (GSO), 8:30 p.m.

Do you think you’re funny? This is your chance to find out, at this open mic hosted by Dispatch Dave. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

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Silk-scarf dyeing @ Sawtooth School for Visual Art (W-S), 6 p.m.

In this creative workshop, attendees learn how to make their own piece of wearable of art. Guests are encouraged to bring snacks and beverages to the class. For more information, visit sawtooth.org.

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SATURDAY

Color Vibe 5K run @ Downtown Greensboro (GSO), 8 a.m.

Similar to the Color Run, participants will get blasted with color as they run this exciting family event. For more information, visit thecolorvibe.com.

End of summer bash @ Brown Truck Brewery (HP), 2 p.m.

You can’t celebrate the tail end of summer any better than with a cold beer and live music. There will also be a limited release of a hoppy saison beer, with purchases benefiting breast cancer awareness. Homeslice Pizza food truck will provide the snacks or dinner.

For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Chardonnay wine tasting @ Gia Drink Eat Listen (GSO), 3 p.m.

Try various Chardonnay wines that are featured on Gia’s exclusive menu, from various wineries. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Mayweather vs. McGregor @ Patio 9.2.4 (W-S), 8 p.m.

Observe the biggest fight of 2017 live from Las Vegas, as the undefeated, five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather takes on UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

James Ingram @ Jerusalem Market (GSO), 6:30 p.m.

Conservative Greensboro City Council at-large candidate James Ingram hosts a meetand-greet , along with special guests John Blust and Jon Hardister (two local Republican state representatives). For more information, visit james4gso.com.

Vandalized: A sticker art show @ Revolution Mill (GSO), 7 p.m.

Experience the work of street artists and artwork through stickers. Enjoy live art as sticker artists create pieces before your eyes. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Evan & Dana @ Finnigan’s Wake (W-S), 10 p.m.

This musical duo performs hits from the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, as well as some original music, too. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Lock-in @ Air Fun Trampoline Park (GSO), 11 p.m.

This back to school event features games, activities and movies. The trampoline area will be open for the duration of the event.

Food will be available for purchase and guests are encouraged to bring sleeping bags and pillows.

For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

SUNDAY

Greensboro Food Truck Festival @ downtown Greensboro, (GSO) 3 p.m.

A whopping 50 food trucks accompany craft beer and dozens of family activities at this semi-regular downtown festival. For more information visit greensborofoodtruckfestivals. com.

MONDAY

Matt Adnate @ Traveled Farmer (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Enjoy a four-course meal with world renowned street artist Matt Adnate. Hosted by Create Your City, the event focuses on connecting artists with the community to spur collaborations. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

TUESDAY

GrooveFood @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

The band blends neo-soul, funk, jazz and R&B into something that will ignite the senses and have you grooving all night long at the Washington Park barcade. For more information, visit groovefoodband.com.

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6. Velma Hopkins This labor and racial rights activist played a pivotal role in the 1943 strike at Plant No. 65 of RJ Reynolds Co., the largest tobacco manufacturing facility in the world at the time, and helped found the Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO labor union. A highway marker memorializing the strike stands at the intersection of Fourth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, but a marker is no statue and this local legend deserves veneration.

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3. Rev. Gary Davis Davis was a blues and gospel singer and a guitarist known for his signature fingerpicking style that influenced artists like the Grateful Dead. Born in South Carolina, Davis lived most of his life in Durham, a black cultural center of the Piedmont blues scene in the mid-1920s.

5. Gertrude Weils Born in Goldsboro, this Jewish-American activist stood at the forefront of a number of political issues. In 1920, she established the North Carolina League of Women Voters, dedicated to educating women about the political system and newly won rights. Weils buoyed anti-lynching organizations in the ’30s and helped win a number of labor rights for women factory workers.

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2. Julius L. Chambers Chambers’ childhood in Jim Crow-era Montgomery County informed his prodigious legal career. Chambers successfully litigated a number of key cases before the US Supreme Court including the school busing decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971), and two important Title VII employment discrimination cases Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) and Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975).

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1. Ella Baker A major architect of the Civil Rights Movement, Baker influenced initiatives of the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Through SNCC, she helped organize the Freedom Summer of 1964 and became a fierce advocate for voting rights.

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insurance and won’t ignore them in a waiting room for seven hours before bankrupting their families. They will explain herbal tinctures, healing stones, bodily meridians and pressure points.

Stepping into the unknown, especially when the unknown concerns one’s physical and emotional self, is no easy task, but how any of these options might make a patient any more vulnerable than those chilly paper robes in the doctor’s office or lying unconscious on a surgical table years down the line.

Our government and healthcare and pharmaceutical industries demonstrate little competence or intention to support wellness equitably, so we need to cultivate communities of care ourselves; it’s not hippie-nonsense or shameful to seek something more.

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techniques.

By no means do I suggest abandoning modern, evidence-based medical care; vaccines and triple-bypass surgeries save lives, and scores of people find medical professionals within the Western system who encourage preventative practices and present a truly wide range of care options.

As lovely as those providers may be, they’re enmeshed in a system designed to systematically extract wealth during health crises. Modern medicine is rooted in capitalism, and part of a nasty, dehumanizing cycle that replicates and deepens poverty disproportionately across region, race, ability, gender and a slew of other identifiers.

It’s not as though alternative-care practitioners aren’t participating in the capitalist economy or aren’t capable of replicating oppressive practices but, for the most part, they don’t care whether or not their clients have

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Healthcare shouldn’t be a major stressor, but for many it’s financially or geographically out of reach.

More than a quarter of Americans report that at least one person in their household is struggling with medical debt, according to a 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation study.

Even for those with access to treatment options and insurance, conversations about healthcare can be uncomfortable; when non-Western alternatives come up, though, those conversations can come to a screeching halt.

I grew up in a household that dismissed practices like acupuncture as hippy-dippy nonsense, and I get that attitude; it’s valid. But to some extent, it’s based on fear of the unknown and disdain for cultural stereotypes.

For every phony tarot-card reader, there are dozens of legitimate acupuncturists, herbalists, reflexologists and reiki healers offering non-invasive health-maintenance

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Dr. Goldie Byrd, a biology professor, is contributing to major breakthroughs in genetic research into Alzheimer’s disease by finding innovative ways to encourage African Americans to participate in studies.

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The community room looks like the interior of any well-appointed modern house from Starmount to Summerfield, with ocean-blue walls, mahogany-style tables matched with high-backed chairs, a sleek metallic refrigerator and comfortable couches.

There’s one key difference: The dining room, kitchen, living area and bathroom are collapsed into one large room with no dividers. Located on the third floor of a repurposed textile build-

ing across the street from Revolution Mill, the community room at the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Age and Community Health, or COAACH, functions as a classroom for families learning how to take care of a loved one developing Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

“The team wanted it to look like a home,” said Donna Bradby, a publicist at NC A&T University, “so you could cook a healthy meal, sit your loved one down at the table and then do things like transferring them to the bathroom and helping them brush their teeth.”

Bradby gestured toward the fulllength mirror at the end of the room.

“My aunt, Annie Ruth Ingram, had Alzheimer’s,” Bradby said. “We stood in front of that mirror. She said, ‘Who is that lady?’ I said, ‘Oh, Aunt Annie Ruth. That’s you!’”

Annie Ruth’s husband, Charlie, passed away before she did, and it’s not uncommon for spouses to precede loved ones with Alzheimer’s in death. Caring for someone suffering from the disease, which progressively robs people of memory, cognition, muscle movement and personality, can take a heavy toll.

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Caregivers experience high levels of stress and cope with depression, often neglecting their own health and missing doctor’s appointments.

Those who take care of people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are twice as likely to report substantial emotional, financial and physical difficulties as other caregivers, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Two thirds are women, and 34 percent are age 65 or older. A quarter of caregivers are considered a “sandwich generation,” meaning that they’re also taking care of a child under the age of 18.

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Research has shown that AlzheiAfrican Americans was woefully behind As Byrd continued her research at mer’s is twice as likely to affect African as recently as 15 years ago. Byrd joined her new post at A&T, the first challenge Americans (and 1.5 times more likely the faculty at NC A&T as chair of the was to figure out how to overcome to affect Hispanics) than non-Hispanic biology department in 2003, and that reluctance among African Americans to whites, but until about 10 years ago year she completed a sabbatical at the participating in studies. there was little research into why the Duke Center for Human Genetics, “We began by going into the commudisease strikes African Americans with where she helped initiate a study on nity and asking different stakeholders — such ferocity.

Alzheimer’s. At the time, the university lay people, the faith-based communities; The answer is gradually coming into had 7,000 blood samples, but less than we went to health fairs and barbershops focus, thanks in part to the research of 50 were drawn from African-American — and we asked people if they would Dr. Goldie Byrd, the founding director volunteers. participate in a study,” Byrd recalled. of COAACH, which opened in “What would the barriers be?

2014. A recent article by journalWhat would the motivations be?” ist and novelist Marita Golden Distrust among African AmeriThe Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support in the Washington Post described cans due to the legacy of atrocithe Greensboro center as “a kind ties like the Tuskegee experiment group meets at the Center for Outof ground zero for innovative, — a project launched by the US reach in Alzheimer’s, Age and Comcross-disciplinary and communiPublic Health Service in 1932 in ty-based responses to the disease.” munity Health (or COAACH), located at which researchers studied black A complex interplay of enviwith syphilis without their 2105 Yanceyville St. (GSO) every third men ronmental and genetic factors informed consent and without Monday of the month from 6 to 7:15 accounts for why Alzheimer’s treating them for the disease inflicts a disparate toll on African p.m. The Lunch & Learn monthly series — was an obvious hurdle. And Americans. An understanding while there are continuing reasons takes place on the first Thursday of of the interplay can help people for African Americans and other make lifestyle choices that reduce every month from noon to 1:30 p.m. For underrepresented groups to disthe risk of the disease’s onset, and trust the medical establishment, information about both, contact Dora researchers hope that understandByrd emphasized that ethical Som-PimPong at dorasom@ncat.edu. research coupled with culturally ing genetic factors will lead to the development of drugs to treat it. calibrated outreach can overcome Alzheimer’s medications currently barriers. only address symptoms, without pre“We wanted to increase our knowl“People struggle with lack of access venting, curing or slowing the disease. edge about Alzheimer’s, particularly and the indifference when they’re On the environmental side of the underrepresented groups like African treated even in 2017,” Byrd said. “They equation, a series of studies presented Americans and Hispanics,” Byrd said. notice when they go to the doctor and at the 2017 Alzheimer’s Association “These groups had a disproportionate they don’t see people who look like them International Conference in London burden, but there was so little in the in 2017. There are recent studies that in July added to a growing body of literature about Alzheimer’s in these show that people of color don’t get the evidence that racial inequities increase groups, particularly Alzheimer’s relasame level of care. the risk of Alzheimer’s and other tionship to genetics.”

“African Americans will participate dementias. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that African Americans were 60 percent more likely than whites to experience a stressful life event such as losing a job, the death of a child, combat, or growing up with a parent who abused drugs, which correlated with deterioration in cognition later in life. Other studies presented at the conference found that people born in states with high infant mortality rates — a proxy for harsh early-life conditions — and neighborhoods disadvantaged by poverty, poor housing and limited educational and employment opportunities were more likely to experience poorer cognitive function and dementia late in life.

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Takiya Starks (right), a clinical research coordinator, shown with Public Health Specialist Dora Som-PimPong, leads volunteer intake for clinical studies at the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Age and Community Health.

in studies,” she added. “Stereotypically, people think African Americans won’t participate because of these atrocities.

There are very good reasons for there to be hesitation and concern. We have to take the time to communicate with them to make sure they feel comfortable. We can’t assume people who are mistreated are going to be at the front of the line unless we as researchers assure them that they’re safe, that we’re going to handle them and their specimens in an honest and respectful way, and we reassure them they can stop at any time.”

The family-support component that became a core pillar of the COAACH center emerged as natural extension of Dr. Byrd’s understanding that she needed to design a study that would earn the trust of African-American volunteers.

“The person I was working with —

we agreed we would create an environment that specifically targeted African Americans and engaged them directly in what the study was, that would create learning opportunities for this community, that would keep them engaged and keep them in the loop around what’s happening with the research,” Byrd said.

Although COAACH opened in response to a need to engage African Americans in Alzheimer’s research, Byrd and other staff members emphasize that the programs at the center are open to people of all races.

“We created our COAACH center to assure not only African Americans but people of all races that we were there, and we weren’t going to get them into the study and leave,” Byrd said.

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they could call. If a church was having a health fair, they could call. We created a support group that people can attend; they don’t have to be African American.

They can attend Lunch & Learn.”

Through Dr. Byrd’s efforts, the bank of data on African Americans with Alzheimer’s has dramatically expanded. As part of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, which includes several other institutions, Byrd was part of a study that dramatically expanded the number of DNA specimens under review. In 2013, the consortium discovered that a variation in the ABCA7 gene that had previously been linked

to Alzheimer’s was found to have a stronger link in African Americans than non-Hispanic whites.

Finding a gene link like ABCA7 gives researchers clues about what causes Alzheimer’s because variants might cause it to dysfunction and affect different populations in different ways.

In the hope of learning more about how genetics factors into the disease, COAACH is recruiting families with more than one member who has Alzheimer’s for an ongoing study. The center has collected samples from people in North Carolina, along with Virginia and New York.

“There may be other genes like ABCA7 that are associated with the disease,” Byrd said. “There may be [treatments] that are specific to one population and not to another. That’s important because if we only did research in one population everything ends up being generalized. Our hope is there will be therapies and interventions that are specific to populations and not generalized. The advantage of doing studies is that we’ll be much more inclusive and everyone will benefit.

“There are many studies and clinical trials going on right now,” she continued. “We don’t have any cure right now.

We don’t have anything to slow the disease. There are drugs that can assist with the symptoms. We are very hopeful that the pharmaceutical companies working with research institutions will come up a drug that can halt or slow the disease.”

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The eclipse as metaphor

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The light had begun to soften as “very fine people” at the Unite the Right rally and that the Condusk cloaked suburbia along Interstate federate monuments are “beautiful.” The last 10 days have felt 35 in the booming town of Kyle south like a turning point into more dangerous and volatile territory. of Austin, but the heat was still on a As P. Kim Bui, one of the trainers, projected a Google Earth low broil as I found myself seated in a image of a private driveway in northern California displaying a Tex-Mex restaurant between two Brits “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, I couldn’t help noting that the same trading war stories about the 2011 upristool was used by journalists to verify a chemical weapons attack ing in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. in Syria.

by Jordan Green The next morning, a dozen of us — journalists, programmers, Although rhetoric urging victims to “go back to your country” students and an instructor, variously from Miami, Los Angeles, has been a common feature of bias incidents in the United San Francisco, New York City and North Carolina — would hole States this year, people are being targeted for every conceivup in a narrow conference room on the campus of Texas State able reason — race, religion, immigration status and sexual University in San Marcos to design a system to harvest and orientation, to name a few — in every part of the country, verify information from social media about hate crimes. according to Rachel Glickhouse, the partner manager for Fergus Bell, one of the journalists with experience covering Documenting Hate.

Arab Spring, was joking at dinner that the Americans had to call It felt like a secretive kind of Manhattan Project racing on a couple Brits because he and Tom Trewinnard were among against hate, as we split into groups to design workflow features the few people with social-media verification expertise. and brainstorm search terms, including a working lunch of It seems telling that their professional transitions from jourpizza. nalists to technology developers have led them from there to It wasn’t all work. At 4:30 p.m. on the first day, we broke for here. Social media verification came into its own as an importa tubing excursion down the San Marcos River. The river was ant journalistic tool during the course of the Syrian civil war, in clogged with flotillas tethered together by ropes and affectionwhich the strict control of the Assad regime coupled with the ate handclasps, as exuberant voices signaled across the stream ferocity of the conflict has limited the ability of journalists to and the faint smell of marijuana perfumed the air. operate on the ground. The tool has also been used for projects At one point I looked over my shoulder and heard a woman designed to support reporting on the 2016 US election and the call out, “Hey, you Mexican f***,” but it wasn’t immediately clear recent presidential election in France. As Facebook, Twitter and whom the intended target was, and no one responded. other social media platforms have attracted increasing numbers At the end of the run, two groups exchanged heated words of users, they have become both a conduit of valuable informaand one man took a fighting stance before a friend restrained tion and a channel for hoaxes and disinformation. him.

In the shell-shocked aftermath of Charlottesville, and Then everyone piled into an ancient school bus and we sitting with two journalists molded by experience covering the bumped over the streets back to launch site. The trip passed Egyptian revolution, it felt in some sense like the war had come without incident, and the tubers filed into primitive public bathhome. rooms to change and then retrieved clothing, wallets, purses I’ll be working with a group of students at Wake Forest and keys to go their separate ways.

University under the direction of professor Phoebe Zerwick this It may seem like everything’s falling apart, but we’re all in this fall to scrape the internet for bias incidents and then cross-reftogether, like it or not. erence social-media posts to ascertain the who, what, when and where. In tandem with peers across the country, the Wake students will be feeding the information into a giant database curated by ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project to both generate news stories and develop a more comprehensive picture of hate in the United States.

Charlottesville was conspicuously represented in the stack of entries already compiled. One incident highlighted by the trainers for demonstration purposes referenced the brutal beating of Deandre Harris by white supremacists at the Water Street Parking Garage in Charlottesville on Aug. 12.

The timing of the training was eerie, coming exactly a week after Charlottesville, and only days after President Trump gave a tacit endorsement of the JORDAN GREEN Journalists, programmers and students meet to white supremacist movement by saying there were strategize a plan for tracking hate crimes.

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We all got our glasses and watched our clocks, and when the time drew near we gathered outdoors, in backyards and parking lots and green spaces, and we cast our eyes to the heavens.

Here in the Triad, just a hair’s breadth off the Zone of Totality, we were assured a genuine celestial event, as much as 93 percent coverage, with a false dusk around 2:30 p.m. followed shortly thereafter by a new dawn.

It’s instinctual to assign meaning into an event like this, which is basically the cosmic equivalent to that moment when the bouncing icon on your screensaver runs straight into the corner. For millions of years, humans ascribed metaphysical forces to every raindrop and cloud formation. Those times when the moon ate the sun were historically infused with particular importance — a historical watershed of grand proportions.

A solar eclipse is nothing but a mathematical inevitability in the vortex of time and space; there’s one happening somewhere on Jupiter literally all the time. And though it wasn’t all that long ago — not even 400 years! — that Gallileo ran afoul of the church for suggesting the Earth revolved around the sun, most of us understand that an eclipse is not a magic trick or a visitation; it doesn’t have to mean anything.

But that doesn’t mean it can’t.

At the very least, this eclipse gave the people in our communities an opportunity to be outside, together, to look to the sun that we so often take for granted and contemplate the universe as it passed before our eyes.

As the night critters began their chirpings in the fresh twilight and then silenced in confusion as the corona grew to afternoon light, it was impossible not to feel, even if just for a moment, a sense of renewal.

Unless, of course, you were in Greensboro, where a small, isolated storm — the only weather activity for 100 miles — laid thick cloud cover upon most of the city at almost the exact moment the moon made its pass, and stayed there until just after it was all over.

How’s that for a metaphor?

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he last time I ordered ramen in Winston-Salem, it came on a plate.

Not wanting to be culturally ignorant or insensitive, I chalked it up to a misunderstanding on my part. But these weren’t even the right kind of noodles, the restaurant offered no bowl with broth for dipping or soaking, and all subsequent research points to this being a bastardization of the Japanese noodle soup rather than a lesser-known variation.

That’s why I appreciated when a couple people pointed me towards 18 Malaysia, a pan-Asian restaurant cooking up everything from Malaysian curry puffs to Vietnamese pho. The shopping center restaurant on the west side of the city also offers spicy ramen with chicken, seafood, roasted pork, beef, shrimp or vegetables, making it the most extensive ramen list I’ve seen on a permanent menu here.

Despite the sprawling menu — which often suggests breadth and not depth or quality — 18 Malaysia’s ramen is more satisfying than most other local counterparts I’ve tried, including the options at Sushi Republic and Crafted: The Art of Street Food (both in Greensboro). I wouldn’t rank it higher than the pop-up held at Spring House in association with Caldero Bone Broth — the two are roughly equivalent — but who cares? Spring House’s weekly run is over, at least for the time being, and 18 Malaysia appears to be the only place in Winston-Salem that offers consistent, quality ramen.

(Don’t bother with Ise of Japan; that’s where it’s more like lo mein.)

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The variety of ramen options at 18 Malaysia (including the roasted pork, above) come with kimchi (bottom right). The Malaysian curry puff (left) is a nice, crunchy counter-balance.

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veggies, blowing gently in the hopes of cooling off the first town. several bites. The broth is thicker and more satisfying than its Shokunin Ramen, a pop-up concept that last held an event counterparts locally, and the chunks of meat bigger (and thus in Winston-Salem at the end of July, makes handmade noodles easier to grab) than at some restaurants. Yet they remained and sources local ingredients for a ramen-centric experience. bit-sized, unlike my aforementioned favorites in bigger cities, “Our menu is ever evolving, incorporating the art of Japawhich made consumption easier. nese noodle-making with the refined nature of French broths and stocks, and then pairing both with refined, traditional Located in a shopping center anchored by a Harris Teeter, 18 Malaysia kept the blinds drawn at lunch, keeping out the cooking from the South to West Africa to Northern Asia,” the business’ Facebook bio reads. parking lot, and the relaxed ambiance and well-appointed décor enhanced the experience. Attentive service helps boost In other words, it’s a little all over the place. But it’s nice to the restaurant’s ranking compared to countless other Triad see an outfit locally dedicated to focusing on ramen — that’s how it’s done in bigger cities, be it Ippudo in Manhattan or venues, too.

A woman sitting near me raved about the Ramen Tatsu-Ya in Austin (two of the best bowls I’ve had). There’s a level of care and atpho to her friend before ordering a bowl. A low divider splits the restaurant in half, but I tention to detail this specialization provides.

Visit 18 Malaysia at could see a man across the room eating soup, Almost to drive this point home, my roast4956 Martin View Lane too — it could’ve been ramen, or one of the ed pork ramen at 18 Malaysia initially arrived udon noodle options; I couldn’t tell from my with seafood instead, with the mix-up com(W-S). Find Shokunin ing despite a relatively light lunch crowd on vantage point. That, plus the recommendaRamen on Facebook.

Tuesday. Regardless of type, the spicy ramen tion from a couple Winston-Salem foodies, at the restaurant all come with kimchi on the suggests 18 Malaysia is a worthwhile destination for broth-based delight. side. Sure, Korea (kimchi) is much closer to With any luck, Shokunin Ramen will become a more regular Japan (ramen) than Malaysia is (which is farther south, near affair, with it or another specialized business ideally opening a Thailand), but the pairing still felt a little thrown together. brick-and-mortar in the near future. But until that day, there’s Still, I took bites of the fermented cabbage occasionally to break up the heat of the broth, the pungency of the kimchi no need to order ramen on a plate or make your own cheap knockoff at home — 18 Malaysia holds it down remarkably cutting against the umami-based entrée. But mostly I scooped up some medium-sized pieces of pork, noodles, broth and well.

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though the frames at Sedgefield will go into storage until next year, Kyte can reuse the moss.

“The moss will still have live spores, so I’ll go sprinkle it around,” he explained. To cultivate moss, the crew often blends it with buttermilk and pours the concoction over growing areas to later harvest for further projects.

Like an old folktale, Kyte’s moss reanimates in a familiar land. It rises up again in a new form, soon to belong to a new large-than-life creation in a far-off place.

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ne year in high summer, Tormund Giantsbane came to Sedgefield, they’ll tell children around a fire in the years to come. His beard was made of Spanish moss stained red, and lichen brightened the white vest atop his dark green limbs.

And it won’t be as far-fetched as it sounds.

Throughout the course at Sedgefield Country Club, caddies followed their golfers, lugging along their burdens of bags, clubs and moral support. So too did Topiary Joe’s crew accompany him onto the site of the Wyndham Championship, though their burdens, unloaded from an 18-foot trailer, seemed odd in comparison — enormous steel frames and 300 pounds of moss.

For this year’s PGA Tour event that ended Sunday, the Wyndham hired Topiary Joe — also known as Joe Kyte from Tellico Plains, Tenn. — to provide custom-designed sculptures from ⅜-inch steel frames, sheet moss, Spanish moss, lichen, zinnias and lantanas.

The art of topiary has taken Kyte and his crew around the world — Chile, Ireland, Dubai, Guatemala, Times Square — creating sculptures for DreamWorks, Disney, Iggy Azalea, Prince Charles and many others.

At his first PGA Tour event, Kyte weighed the pros and cons as they compared to the many other events he’s worked.

Topiary Joe’s creations welcome visitors to the Wyndham Championship.

“They could have chosen a cooler day!” he barked smiling. dresses and salmon-colored polos peppering the grounds at At Sedgefield, Kyte’s sculptures included two enormous Sedgefield. Yet like many others outside a large pavilion near pineapples that incorporated 300 1-gallon floral plants — the Wyzard sculpture, Kyte and his crew enjoyed a respite of augmenting Wyndham’s “Southern charm” theme — a logo Bloody Marys in the early afternoon. reading “#WYNDHAMCHAMP” and two larger-than-life When considering how the Wyndham compared to other golfers who flanked a road that cuts through events, it wasn’t necessarily the sculptures or the course. the people around them that affected Kyte’s But most memorable among the many mossy evaluation. It was the life of his works.

Learn more about creations was the large-than-life likeness of “I’d like to do more natural logos for places Topiary Joe at Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju — best known like country clubs — not just a big-ass edifice of topiaryjoe.com. as the red-headed wildling Tormund Giantsbane steel,” Kyte admitted, addressing the doom of from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” — who stood his adhesive-attached moss that died slowly in watchful as another topiary sculpture of golfer the heat and humidity.

Brandt Snedeker squatted down to evaluate a stretch of putUnlike his temporary structures at Sedgefield, many of ting green.

Kyte’s other sculptures don’t leave their sites. His life-sized When not fighting White Walkers with Jon Snow, Hivju elephants, giraffes, Porsches and corporate logos find their plays the role of the Wyndham Rewards Wyzard, a whimsical forever-places upon mascot whose bearded cheer and bursts of blue smoke have first assembly. Kyte commanded the Wyndham Hotel Group’s multi-million dollar grows a shrubbery marketing campaign. (On a 94-degree day, Hivju’s gruff optiinto the framed mism upon a Mist-er Cool spray-stand didn’t quite manage to sculptures, or he convince its sprayees that they’d ventured north of the Wall.) uses 50-pound Joe Kyte and his crew had worked on the Wyndham frames fishing line to stuff for a month from their shop in Tellico Plains. They’d spent a and secure sphagweek at Sedgefield assembling their sculptures, and on Aug. num moss, vines, 18, during the tournament’s second round, they’d finally finsucculents, annuals ished. Only maintenance tasks followed, applying more dye or or perennials. The reattaching moss that had fallen loose. plants in these Away from their work, the topiary crew didn’t necessarily sculptures stay bewilder anyone, but their sweaty shirts and dirt-covered alive. hands were indeed out of place among the immaculate sunFortunately,

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CULTURE A rare concert brings music and hope to Forsyth inmates

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t’s one thing to visit the imprisoned, to give counsel and offer help in their rehabilitation. But the Piedmont Wind Symphony, directed by Matthew Troy, has set about helping the community in a different way.

“Part of our mission [is] to show that classical music isn’t just for an upper echelon of people,” Troy said. “We have a very diverse crowd and following and we aim to continue making our concerts available to music fans across the board. Music is for everyone.”

A brass ensemble made up of members of the Piedmont Wind Symphony played a private concert for inmates at the Forsyth County jail on Sunday. In collaboration with local business owner and arts activist Tommy Priest, Troy has begun expanding what has long been considered the normal realms of classical music by opening the doors and making classical music accessible to all.

“This stems out of the Community Innovation Lab,” Priest said. “We’ve been taking a new approach to bringing arts to the community, and thinking of

ways of making a more abundant and equitable Winston-Salem, and using artistic practice as a means to do so.”

The concert at the jail took more than 11 months of planning and preparation, getting through the red tape of county officials’ approval and proper paper to make the event happen.

“Tommy and I began the conversation last year after seeing Blitz the Ambassador in Durham,” Troy said. “He just had this amazing way of bring such diversity to his music and to the arts and we just found ourselves asking, ‘How can we do this?’”

With seed grants available and the Forsyth County Jail open MEGHAN PARSONS Piedmont Wind Symphony expands their scope by performing at the local jail. to the concert, things began to move in a way In addition to this concert, the symphony has started that seemed larger than donating season tickets to newly released ex-cons as a way to just an ordinary concert. welcome them back to the outside and inviting them into a “Our goal is not to tear down the system, or to change the space where they may not otherwise feel welcome. world all at once,” Priest said. “Things just don’t work that From jazz and ragtime to religious hymns and formal classiway. We’ve found ourselves working with the system that is in cal compositions, the concert was grounded in an ecumenical place. And this concert was a point of entry into a very difficult approach. and complex system.”

“Seeing the Cherry Street Ensemble’s yearning and gratiThe concert was closed to the public and to press. Meghan tude for being able to play alongside was amazing,” Troy said.

Parsons, the executive director of the symphony, said county “It augments what we have done in the past. We played with officials restricted access to avoid placing an unnecessary the Wailers last season, and just witnessing the diversity and strain on security personnel. accessibility of music for the crowd really moved me. We “It was unlike anything,” Priest said, recalling the concert. brought together a group of people that might otherwise “It was over 100 inmates who came to listen and see the never have happened.” performance, and just the energy, the weight of it all was so The 2017-18 season for the Piedmont Wind Symphony opens moving. It was a moment of complete and utter gratitude on of Oct. 20, with a fundraising pre-season opener on Sept. 23, every side of the event. The emotion of it all was amazing. By in collaboration with Wiseman Brewing in Winston-Salem. far this was one of the best things I’ve ever experienced.”

“Our goal is to tear down In addition to the Piedmont the stigmas that surround Wind Symphony performing much of our community, that their set, the concert featured To learn more about the upcoming season, surround classical music, as a the Cherry Street Ensemble, visit piedmontwindsymphony.com. means of truly bringing people a group of inmates who play together,” Troy said. “That is the music in the jail. ideology behind it, but it’s that “These are a group of forgotsame thing that you can never quite attain. But we are always ten people,” Troy said. “They have been ostracized and literally expanding and will never stop reaching for it. Music is the forgotten by the community. And when they get released connector in that. Music is for everyone.” back into society, they have a mark on their back forever. We wanted to take a moment, that evening, create something beautiful, provide hope, provide humanity, and give the hope for second chances.”

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