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October 5-11, 2017

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Pretty Ricky’s bouncing around the coffeeshop, his phone in his hand, when he motions me over.

“I got a story for the Triad City

by Brian Clarey Beat,” he informs me. It’s not the first time.

He waves the phone in my face.

“I just got 350 views on a video of me folding my laundry,” he says gesturing with the phone for emphasis. “I’m famous.”

He is famous to some degree at this nook off the corner of Walker and Elam, where he can often be found either working or hanging out or engaged in some combination of the two. And not just because he once drove through a blizzard to watch the UNCG Spartans lose in Syracuse in a play-in game for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, though that is part of it.

Pretty Ricky didn’t need to show me the video, because not an hour earlier, instead of doing actual work, I happened upon his Facebook Live feed, shot entirely from a low angle at the Suds N Duds. I watched for almost a minute — an eternity in Facebook Live time — as Pretty Ricky did

his laundry and intermittently mugged for the camera while stroking his formidable chin beard.

Besides occasional sips of beer, there is literally no other content to the 20-minute film.

It is either one of the most worthless things ever submitted to the digital canon, or it is a work of accidental genius in its symbolism and reach. I am choosing to believe the latter.

The way I see it, Pretty Ricky is a purveyor of outsider performance art, his latest work descendant of the hyperreal cinéma vérité movement, or perhaps an homage to Andy Warhol’s experimental films like Sleep, which was real-time footage of one of Warhol’s friends taking a nap — for five hours.

Like many outsider artists, Pretty Ricky comes by this form quite by accident.

Through the magic of Facebook’s algorithm, his work has found an audience.

And now he’s a social-media star, 365 views’ worth at last count, the sort of market penetration for which Facebook marketers are willing to pay 10 bucks.

But for Pretty Ricky, the views come free of charge.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK I had no idea this little press would take off like it did. Once we signed John Ehle in 2006 to republish his 1964 novel The Land Breakers as part of our new Carolina Classics series, and we received a hand-written letter from Harper Lee thanking us for reprinting one of her favorite books by one of her favorite authors of historical fiction, and newspapers picked up the story, we became well known.

— Kevin Morgan Watson, in Culture, page 12

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CITY LIFE Oct. 5 –8

by Lauren Barber THURSDAY

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Shop the Block @ downtown (W-S), various times

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Through Sunday, Oct. 8, more than a dozen retail stores in downtown Winston-Salem participate in a coordinated local sales event. A coupon book with every participating stores’ deals will be available at each retail outlet, along with a complimentary tote bag. Learn more and find a list of participating stores at downtownws.com.

Kaleideum After Dark: Oktoberfest @ Kaleidium North (W-S), 6 p.m.

Kaleideum celebrates the onset of autumn with pumpkin carving and a live performance from the Piedmont Polka Practitioners. Indulge in Carolina Vineyard & Hops wine or seasonal Hoots beer while enjoying a meal from Lowes Foods. This event is for ages 21 and up. Learn more at downtown.kaleideum.org.

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Louise Fishman: A Retrospective @ Weather-

My Fair Lady @ High Point Theatre (HP), 7:30 p.m.

High Point Community Theatre opens its 201718 season with an ASL-interpreted performance of this Tony-winning 1956 Broadway classic. My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, runs through Oct. 8. Learn more and find tickets at hpct.net.

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Aggie FanFest @ War Memorial Stadium (GSO), 4 p.m.

FanFest entertains thousands with live music and 100 vendors of arts, crafts, food and drink fot NC A&T’s Homecoming weekend. This year, organizers also offer kid-friendly entertainment options. The festival continues through the weekend with a concert featuring Migos and Gucci Mane at the Coliseum Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Learn more at ncat.edu.

and-stitched works. A public reception follows the talk. Learn more at weatherspoon.uncg.edu.

spoon Art Museum (GSO), 6 p.m.

Artist Louise Fishman joins the community in conversation about her decades-long career to mark her first retrospective exhibition currently housed in the Weatherspoon, Louise Fishman: A Retrospective. Fishman’s work reflects components of her Jewish heritage and feminism, and varies in form from paintings to woven-

Dickinson Avenue @ Aperture Cinema (W-S), 1 p.m.

Aperture hosts several films for the Out at the Movies International LGBT Film Festival from Thursday through Oct. 8. Dickinson Avenue: The (Mostly) True Story of the Paddock Club portrays the people who found a home at the Paddock Club, a nightclub Greenville, North Carolina that served as a safe-haven for LGBT people in the South from 1973 to 2003. Learn more and find tickets at outatthemovieswinston.org.

Public education discussion @ Grace Presbyterian Church (W-S), 2 p.m.

The Coalition for Equity in Public Education hosts its first community conversation, featur-

based on Agatha Christie’s murder mystery, on the first level of the Greensboro Cultural Center.

Learn more at thedramacenter.com.

SUNDAY Drag Brunch @ Mary’s Gourmet Diner (W-S), 11 a.m.

The breakfast queen hosts Pride Winston-Salem’s annual drag brunch. Join newly-crowned Mr. and Miss Pride Winston-Salem for an entertaining

Cosplay meet @ Bog Garden (GSO), 3 p.m.

The North Carolina Anime Community hosts its annual meetup for Triad cosplayers. Spooky cosplays encouraged, and cosplayers can mix afterwards at Geeksboro. Find the event on Facebook.

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A Murder is Announced @ Greensboro Cultural Center (GSO), 8 p.m.

Local teens star in the City Arts Drama Center’s presentation of A Murder Is Announced, a play

Hops & Shop: Fall Fest @ Foothills Brewing (W-S), noon Catbird Art & Events partners with Foothills to host a family- and dog-friendly event featuring more than 100 regional arts, craft and antique venders. Enjoy live music, activities for kids, facepainting and four food truck options. Find the event on Facebook.

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Talk Socialism with Us @ Hoots Roller Bar & Beer Co. (W-S), 6 p.m.

The Winston-Salem chapter of the International Socialist Organization hosts a laid-back discussion about the history of socialism and what it means to be a socialist today. Find the event on Facebook.

brunch. Donations are suggested. Find the event

on Facebook.

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ing guest speakers Lou Fabrizio, federal policy director at the NC Department of Public Instruction, and Keith Howard, a Charlotte-based attorney with expertise in education law. Enjoy light refreshments while learning more about the rights of students and parents with regard to public school policies and administrators and how to effectively engage the school system.

Find the event on Facebook.

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Tom Petty

by Jordan Green on the pedal,” although I do like the trumpet solo. It’s the programmed drum sample opening “Don’t Come Around Here No More” that smuggles in a surprise pleasure. That tatter of ’80s flotsam is all of a piece somehow with the exuberant soul of “Make It Better (Forget About Me).” But there may be no more plaintive a rock-and-roll lament than “Dogs on the Run.” At first tentative and then gathering strength, Petty’s weary vocals carry a regret of the damage we’ve done to each other and determination to keep going that makes me want to weep: “Well we come with what was on our backs/ Yeah, when the leaves had died and all turned black/ Back when the wind was cold and blew them ’round/ When we laid our blankets on the ground/ Yeah and I woke up feelin’ hungry….”

Tom Petty may be gone, but this music won’t let us go.

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on guitar and she on bass — “I Won’t Back Down” became a staple of our repertoire. With simple chords and catchy melodies, his songs were delivered in a raspy voice that anyone could pull off. His music belonged to all of us and none of us at the same time.

I like Full Moon Fever, the 1989 album that finally shoved Petty into the mainstream, with “I Won’t Back Down” and the laconic yet frenzied “Runnin’ Down a Dream.”

But the stuff I love goes back a couple clicks. “Jammin’ Me,” the lead track from 1987’s Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) that Petty co-wrote with Bob Dylan, is a jaded cartoon-esque protest song for the Reagan era: “Take back Pasadena/ Take back El Salvador/ Take back that country club/ They’re trying to build outside my door.”

Maybe the reason I never thought Tom Petty was cool is because my grandparents introduced me to his music. They were looking for a Grateful Dead cassette in their local record store in Gainesville, Fla. to give me for Christmas of 1985. The clerk told them that he didn’t have anything by the Dead, but I might enjoy this album Southern Accents by a local guy named Tom Petty. I rediscovered that cassette in an old shoebox two decades later and wore it out.

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People loved Tom Petty, and so did I. It was easy to overlook Petty, as I have, because he claimed no tribe in our pop culture, except maybe that of a stubborn champion of loud, ringing guitars in the era that has seen hip hop and electronic music supplant rock and roll as the lingua franca. Petty embodied the “rockist” posture — originated as a term of derision but adopted as a badge of honor by some.

As recently as last week, I deliberately snubbed Tom Petty in my assessment of ’80s music because he didn’t fit into my paradigm of the mainstream vs. the underground. He was never larger than life like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Prince or Michael Jackson, but he also didn’t belong in the punk scene even though his early career ran parallel to it. Petty’s sensibility was more a continuation of the 1960s folk-rock of Buffalo Springfield. What made those first early records in the late 1970s so irresistible was the combination of Petty channeling the Byrds and his band the Heartbreakers channeling the Rolling Stones.

And while I never really embraced Petty, he will not be denied. His music is forever woven into the fabric of our culture. I doubt if he cared that he never received the adulation that Bruce did; I don’t think he wanted to be anyone’s hero.

In the Venn diagram of music that both my wife and I like and can play on musical instruments — me

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Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast

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Dan Carlin isn’t your high school history teacher. The talk-radio veteran examines only the most dramatic and vicious moments in human history for his evenly entertaining and macabre podcast, Hardcore History. As a hybrid storyteller-analyst, Carlin narrates vivid scenes of conquest and situates listeners in the attitudes of the era and perspectives of decision-makers and common people alike — all from his basement recording studio in Eugene, Ore. The series launched more than a decade ago, and the shorter-than-one-hour episodes gradually morphed into themed arcs like “Wrath of the Khans,” a 5-part, 8-hour saga detailing the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire of Eurasia. Carlin’s account defies Euro-centric understandings of history, providing rich context for

their loved ones humanize the incomprehensible loss of modern developments in China, the Middle East and the life due to a web of convoluted political alliances, military Caucuses. Listeners can all but smell the Mongol people’s blunders and technological advances. Highlighting Mein pieced-together mouse-hide tunics, grubby from riding Kampf’s flowing, energizing and wild horses across vast expanses of downright eerie prose centers the the Steppe. Carlin’s choice to read Listen to Hardcore History for sociopolitical genesis of Germany’s aloud from primary sources — like dispatches from envoys between the free on dancarlin.com and Third Reich. anywhere you find podcasts.

And Carlin’s gravelly voice delivers; Khan and the Muslim and Christian his rhythmic sense of language and worlds or journals of rulers themspirited diction are delightful and selves — illuminate the horridness demand engagement. of the carnage the Mongols wrought to a degree no More than 60 enlightening, disquieting Hardcore Hishistorian he cites could hope to capture. tory episodes are currently available. Listen by the pool, According to an interview with USA Today, Carlin read during the commute or while cleaning the apartment; the more than 50 books about World War I before recording “Blueprint for Armageddon,” which is essentially an audio kitchen sink will never be cleaner. book due to its length. Again, letters between soldiers and

Protests across state highlight fear caused by deportations

by Jordan Green Mock funerals held in several North Carolina cities draw attention to immigration policy and three people in sanctuary.

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sanctuary in that state in the past three years. In May, ICE granted a stay of removal to a Mexican woman who had taken sanctuary in Colorado. Advocates in North Carolina hope that an intervention by members of the state’s congressional delegation will achieve a similar result for Tobar Ortega, Garcia and Chicas.

“Our congressional representatives need to take immediate action to protect our neighbors, and to keep Minerva Garcia, Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, José Chicas and their families safe, together and here,” Pudlog said. “If they get sent back, who is next?”

Jeanne Ormsby encouraged participants to volunteer their time to support the two women in sanctuary in Greensboro. Under current ICE policy, officers do not carry out enforcement actions at places of worship and other sensitive locations, such as schools.

“I volunteer at the sanctuary where Minerva is staying,” Ormsby said. “This is a 24/7 volunteer effort. It’s a small congregation. It’s the easiest volunteer work you have ever done. You go there and you stay there.”

US Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican lawmaker who has received concerted appeals from Tobar Ortega’s supporters in recent months, introduced a bill on Sept. 25 to create a pathway to citizen-

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a seamstress from Asheboro staying at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro; and José Chicas, a Raleigh pastor in sanctuary at the School of Conversion in Durham. Tobar Ortega was the first to take sanctuary in late May; Chicas followed in in early July.

Protesters also highlighted the case of Minerva Garcia, an undocumented woman from Mexico who took refuge in Congregational United Church of Christ in Greensboro in late June. Subsequent to the protest, Garcia walked out of the church on Monday after a federal judge in Texas vacated her deportation order.

“If this can happen to a grandmother who has lived in the same house for 20 years and worked at the same job for 10 or an ordained minister, which one of our neighbors will be next?” asked Lillian Pudlog, one of the organizers in Winston-Salem. “Who will protect our communities from ICE? How dare the United States raid and terrorize communities in our name? How dare they use xenophobia to justify their actions?

How dare they break families apart, send families back into danger and send deportees to their death?”

North Carolina is considered noteworthy for the three individuals in sanctuary, but the Denver Post reported on Aug. 19 that five people have claimed

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Oscar Zuniga, an assistant pastor at New Hope United Methodist Church, said ICE is creating a culture of fear.

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“We are here because of the fear of our community, and we need to do something,” Oscar Zuniga, assistant pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church, told about 50 people gathered at Merschel Plaza in Winston-Salem. “And being here, you are doing something. But we need to go further.

We need to teach our children in our houses, in our families, to respect others, to be tolerant, to love everybody, to love their neighbors as themselves.”

Zuniga was one of the speakers at a mock “memorial service” and “funeral procession” in Winston-Salem on Sept.

28, part of a multi-city event also taking place in Greensboro and Durham to raise awareness about three undocumented people taking sanctuary in North Carolina churches in defiance of deportation orders. Two of the three are in progressive Greensboro churches.

After Zuniga and others spoke, participants stepped to the microphone one by one to read the names of 15 individuals who were murdered or took their own lives after being deported, according to organizers. The event in Greensboro, which organizers said drew about 65 people, featured the same litany of casualties.

In Winston-Salem, black-clad participants picked up a wooden box painted black and ornamented with a cross to suggest a coffin and led a circuitous march through downtown. Carrying a banner reading, “Who will be next? Ni uno mas! (Not one more),” participants marched silently to the Forsyth County jail, accompanied only by the sound of a simple martial beat produced by two percussionists.

The events, which included a mock memorial service outside of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, office in Greensboro, highlighted the recent decision by President Trump to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and a growing roster of undocumented people in sanctuary in North Carolina.

They include Juana Luz Tobar Ortega,

ship for so-called Dreamers — undocumented young people who were brought to the United States at a young age by their parents. Introduced with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Tillis’ SUCCEED Act would allow people who came to the United States before the age of 16 and have been here since 2012 to apply for conditional permanent status and eventually citizenship through a merit-based process, including maintaining gainful employment, earning a post-secondary degree, enlisting in the military or some combination of the three.

Organizers of the memorial service and funeral procession in Winston-Salem were not familiar with the SUCCEED Act, but Will Cox with the Sanctuary City Coalition of Winston-Salem said he feels pessimistic about reform efforts. He said he expects resistance to escalate as the Trump administration pursues ever harsher rhetoric and policies against immigrants.

“These are all stop-gap measures right now,” Cox said. “My general feeling is that this battle is not even close to being over. We know how things work with the Trump administration and the super-right wing. If he gets kudos for attacking vulnerable people, he’s going to do it. And we need to expect that. In fact, we know that it’s going to happen.

Just because there’s tens of thousands of people that are vulnerable and these are people that had some agreement before and an executive order, everything is out the window now.

“As many of the immigration lawyers are saying — and certainly our immigrant brothers, sisters, neighbors — I feel like right now we are up against a fight — and unfortunately this is a fight for literally people’s lives, depending on who you are,” he continued. “And I think they’ll take it to the next level.

Right now, it’s these DACA folks, but we can expect much worse.”

When the marchers reached the jail in Winston-Salem, they deposited the fake coffin, and then headed back to Merschel Plaza, chanting, “Juana, Minerva and Jose — they are here to stay.”

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Testy High Point mayoral race pivots on downtown stadium

by Jordan Green

Three well-matched candidates in High Point’s mayoral race are fighting for survival, as the Oct. 10 primary approaches with the certainty that one of them will be eliminated from the contest.

It didn’t take long for sparks to fly between the three mayoral candidates during a forum in a community space in the derelict hull of Oak Hollow Mall on Tuesday night.

Jay Wagner, a moderate Republican who has positioned himself as the most ardent proponent of the proposed stadium envisioned as a catalyst for downtown revitalization, decided it was time to clearly differentiate himself.

“I think it’s interesting that the political winds are blowing and I think that all the candidates know that the majority of the city is in favor of the stadium, because nobody will say that they’re against it,” Wagner said during the final panel for the mayoral candidates, after voters heard from at-large hopefuls and ward contestants. “What you’ve heard tonight is two crowds. You have the people who are unequivocally in favor of it and believe in it, and then you have what I would refer to as the ‘Yes, but’ crowd.”

One of Wagner’s opponents in the race is a fellow member of High Point City Council, Jim Davis, who chairs the finance committee and has questioned whether the numbers add up for the project.

“The idea that there’s not transparency is kind of crazy,” Wagner said. “All those documents are out there. If you want the information you can come and get it. If Jim is having some issues with that, he hasn’t attended all the meetings, all the briefings that we’ve had.

He hasn’t attended some of the council votes that we’ve had on that issue. If he needs more information, he should come and make sure he gets all the information we have. Also, we were given a book of information a month ago, and as of yesterday, that book is still sitting in Jim’s pickup box.”

A conservative Republican who currently represents Ward 5 in rapidly growing northern tier of the city, Jim Davis didn’t respond to the assertion

that he’s missed briefings and hasn’t done his reading. But he laid out his reservations about the project.

Alluding to an events center, children’s museum, park and educational movie theater that High Point University President Nido Qubein has pledged to build around the stadium, Davis asked where the city will find tax revenue to fund basic services as High Point’s population grows.

“When you talk about the catalyst project I do believe that in theory if you do all the development downtown that it will work,” Davis said.

“It will raise values JORDAN GREEN Jim Davis (center), a conservative Republican, has taken a skeptical position on the in downtown and stadium, while opponents Bruce Davis (left) and Jay Wagner are championing the project. take pressures off the erates the Kid Appeal Learning Center the project. property tax for other daycare, is fighting to make this a three“The way the thing was rolled out, citizens of this city. But the issue that we man contest. He has a dual challenge: I understand why the commissioners have is that the property for the catalyst Reminding voters of his bona fides as backed off because I understand the project-stadium and all the nonprofit an early proponent of the stadium projculture of the county commissioners,” stuff that Dr. Qubein will build will ect, and also setting himself apart from said Davis, who served three terms as pay no property tax. All the other new its other champion. a commissioner ending in 2014. “One development — hotel, the apartment Davis properly takes credit for thing about it — we’re in trouble if we complex or anything that happens in generating the idea of the stadium as don’t learn real quick the culture that’s the next 20 years — all of that propchairman of the High Point Convention happening down there, if we don’t have erty tax will go to pay the debt of the & Visitors Bureau. a leader who understands what’s hapstadium. None of that will go into the “Out of our retreat a couple years pening at the county level, then they’re general fund, and none of it will pay for ago, we were looking for the answer going to say no because they were in city services. to putting ‘feet on the street’ — that’s a position to say no that night. Now “Now, in the next 20 years the the terminology we use in the tourism whether I’d have said yes or no, I don’t population of this city will grow and business — and so one of the things think that’s important. What’s really the needs of this city will grow,” Davis that surfaced from that retreat was important is there was not enough votes continued. We’re gonna have to pay for since the city council was looking for a to say yes that night. One thing about our streets. We’re gonna have to have catalyst — I must give them props for being a commissioner or any elected more police officers, more fire trucks. being thoughtful about that — we came official, you have to learn to count the All those things have gotta be paid for. up with the stadium idea,” he said. “In votes. And you have to know when to You’re taking a big block of the city fact, my committee — I chaired the first hold ’em and when to fold ’em. You of High Point — 649 acres — you’re committee that ushered the ballpark or have to know when to strike, and I don’t taking the whole middle out, and you’re the multipurpose stadium in.” think it was time to strike.” taking all the new revenue growth for But Bruce Davis faults Wagner and Wagner has won the endorsement the next 20 years, and you’re paying off other current members of council for of a new political action committee set the debt.” bungling their request to the county up to promote the stadium, along with Bruce Davis, a black Democrat and commission for assistance with financing other downtown revitalization initiatives former county commissioner who op-

the city. And he counts the daycare, which has served thousands of children over the past two decades, as a political asset.

“My son was 2 years old when we started this business 21 years ago,” Davis said. “All the kids, if they stayed here, they’re constituents. Now, I’ve just got to get them to the polls.”

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While feeding goats at a fall festival sponsored by Northwood Animal Hospital on Sunday afternoon, Davis said he had recently fielded a phone call from Bernita Sims, the city’s first and only black mayor, who resigned in 2014 before pleading guilty to a felony charge of passing a worthless check.

“Bernita Sims called me and said, ‘You’re likely to be our next mayor,’” Davis recalled. “She said, ‘What can you do for my community?’ I said, ‘Bernita, I’m not the same person I was when I came on council five years ago; I’ve matured.’”

Jim Davis voted alongside Jay Wagner in a resolution calling for Sims’ resignation in 2013. Davis opposed efforts to rename a street in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., breaking ranks with Wagner. And in 2015, Davis spoke out on behalf of constituents opposed to Human Relations Director Al Heggins’ efforts to promote dialogue about police-community relations, setting the stage for her firing. Davis said in his recent conversation with Sims, the two found common ground in shared concerns about employment and blighted housing.

While Jim Davis attempts to broaden his appeal, his two opponents are working to turn out their respective bases as they contend with the reality of anemic participation. As of Tuesday afternoon, Guilford County Elections Director Charlie Collicutt said only about 600 High Point residents had voted early so far.

As Wagner and his wife knocked on doors in an affluent neighborhood on the west side of the city on a recent Saturday, the candidate observed, “This is less about convincing people than making sure people vote. Canvassing in friendly neighborhoods is all about getting your base out. If your base doesn’t vote for you, they’re not much good, are they?”

During an interview at his daycare on Monday, Bruce Davis said he’s counting on support from black voters to help him make it through the primary. And he said if anyone benefits from low turnout, it should be him considering that he holds strong name recognition as a former county commissioner whose name has appeared on election ballots for more than 10 years. Davis’ former county commission district covered half

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and improvements to streets around High Point University. The High Point Political Alliance was set up as a political arm of Business High Point, the new name for the chamber of commerce, and raised $43,500 over a 10-day period in late June. Major donors include business leaders with a vested interest in the stadium project, including a combined $10,000 contribution from the CEO and COO of High Point-based Blue Ridge Companies, which announced in September that it would build 200 apartments around the stadium. Brian Gavigan, a local lawyer who serves as president of High Point Political Alliance, said the political action committee plans to spend the funds on advertising to benefit favored candidates with a special focus on the mayor’s race.

Bruce Davis chafed at the fact that the endorsements were announced prior to the candidate forum hosted by Business High Point.

“Instead of allowing constituents to be open minded, they stacked the deck,” he complained during an interview before the candidate forum. “It almost seems, as I’ve watched this materialize, like they want a puppet.”

Wagner dismissed Bruce Davis’ sleight.

“He would have loved to have their endorsement,” Wagner said. “Anybody who knows me knows I’m not a puppet of anybody. I spent the first two terms on council being the whipping boy.

The fact that the alliance gave me the endorsement shows they agree with me.

This sounds like sour grapes.”

A two-time congressional candidate, Davis is going into the mayoral race at a financial disadvantage, having certified to the Guilford County Board of Elections his campaign intends to take in and spend no more than $1,000.

Meanwhile, Jim Davis, a builder by profession, is reaping a windfall of support from the NC Association of Realtors, whose political action committee is rolling out a $20,000 advertising campaign on his behalf. The association spent $15,000 on glossy mailers to promote Davis’ candidacy, and a $5,000 Facebook ad campaign is scheduled to begin on Friday in the final push before the Oct. 10 vote.

Of the three candidates, Jim Davis has projected the most confidence in his prospects for surviving the primary.

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Las Vegas shooting doesn’t matter Not that it matters, but we still don’t know why Stephen Paddock carted 23 guns up to a 32nd floor suite of Mandalay Bay and rained bullets — nine shots per second — down on the Las Vegas Strip.

Not that it matters.

It doesn’t matter that Paddock killed 59 people at the latest count and injured hundreds of others.

It doesn’t matter that he used guns converted from semi-automatic to fully automatic using a device known as a “bump stock,” according to the AP, that amplifies a weapon capable of firing 100 rounds per minute into a 500-round-per-minute death machine.

You can type “bump stock” into Google and find hundreds of products for sale, legally, in the low three-figure range. And that, too, doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter because we’re long past the point of critical mass on the issue of guns in the United States — both the kind enshrined in the Second Amendment and this other kind, the type employed

by Paddock, which are designed solely to slaughter large We’re long past numbers of human the point of critbeings, to wage war. ical mass on the The gun lobby — fronted by the Naissue of guns in tional Rifle Associthe United States. ation and absorbed into its zero-tolerance policy on all gun legislation — is too powerful, a behemoth that frightens all Republicans and many Democrats into acquiescence of its terrible mission.

The Las Vegas Massacre, this unresolved slaughter — the worst mass shooting on US soil, as long as we don’t count what happened to the Native Americans or the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot or the Wilmington Riot of 1898, which in this instance don’t matter either — left the people who got us here unswayed in their pursuit of the NRA agenda.

We have thoughts. Prayers. Words for the victims and their families. Never action, which is what defines us in moments like this.

We have been repeatedly told that there is nothing to be done when innocent Americans fall under the bullets of a murderous rampage, that those deaths don’t matter.

What matters most, we’ve been shown, is that protecting Americans from getting shot is not nearly as important as protecting their right to shoot.

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School board members must respect public records law

Considering the content of ples by refraining from the larcenous act of borrowing his Guilford County School Board brother-in-law’s weed-whacker without asking, but making member Anita Sharpe’s email to an exception for bank robbery because the stakes are a lot a school employee, it’s easy to higher. understand why she wouldn’t want Jonathan Jones, director of the Sunshine Center of the the public to know what she’s up NC Open Government Coalition, was astounded when I to. But it’s also absolutely obvious told him about Sharpe’s admission.

by Jordan Green why it’s against the law to conceal “Nobody ever gets charged with the misdemeanor it: We the people have the right to know what the governcrime of destroying public records,” he said. “This is the ment is doing in our name and with our tax dollars. rare instance where I can imagine it happening. It’s just so It comes down to power. egregious if the email is acknowledging the law is telling “Unfortunately, we have the four votes to fire the suyou not to do this, and then you say you’re going to go perintendent but cannot seem to get the 5th vote,” Sharpe ahead and do that very thing.” mused to a school employee in a Sept. 7 email from a In the four-and-a-half years that he has run the Sunshine personal account.

Center, Jones said he had never seen anything like it.

And just to underscore the sensitivity of the subject, Unfortunately, North Carolina doesn’t place a high Sharpe prefaced her plot to oust priority on upholding the law proSuperintendent Sharon Contreras with tecting citizens’ right to know what The coalition of parents, this caveat: “I encourage you to delete their government up to. Had Sharpe pastors and advocates this email on your end and I intend to followed through on her intention delete it on mine. (Against the law for to delete the email expressing her who called out Anita me but these are extenuating times).” desire to fire Superintendent ConSharpe asked for her The context of Sharpe’s email was treras — there are a couple critical a response to an email from a school gaps between getting caught and resignation. But I would employee expressing disappointgetting charged. Although the state settle for an apology. ment about being passed over for a Attorney General’s office has an promotion. open government unit, Jones said “I am so sorry that you experienced it’s used more as an advisory body to this but I am not surprised,” Sharpe wrote. “Hang in there. help government agencies comply with the law than as an The adm is burning bridges and at some point soon, I ombudsman for the public. Public records violations are expect they will burn the last one and we will be free of typically referred to the district attorney for prosecution, this tyranny.” but unlike in other states, district attorneys don’t have The particular law Sharpe was intending to break is much investigative function.

NCGS § 132-3, which states, “No public official may deThe coalition of parents, pastors and advocates who stroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of any public record,” called out Sharpe on Sept. 28 have asked for her resigexcept in limited circumstances spelled out by statute and nation. The revelation of intent to violate public records with the consent of the state Department of Natural and law is definitely a serious betrayal of trust, and sets a bad Cultural Resources. The law goes on to say: “Whoever unexample for other elected officials because she casually lawfully removes a public record from the office where it is displayed contempt for the public’s right to know what usually kept, or alters, defaces, mutilates or destroys it shall local government is doing in our name. That should not be be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and upon conviction allowed to stand. only fined not less than $10 more nor than $500.”

But I would settle for an apology. Sharpe — who to date First of all, who does this? Anyone with average has not addressed the controversy, including not returning intelligence knows that the first rule of crime is to avoid messages from Triad City Beat — should forthrightly adacknowledging intent so as to provide plausible deniability dress the people of Guilford County from the dais at the when you get caught and have to plead that you didn’t next school board meeting. She should acknowledge that know any better. But then what happens if the person she was wrong to contemplate destroying a public record, you’re soliciting into your conspiracy doesn’t go along and reassure us that she recognizes the importance of open you get exposed? (In this case, Sharpe apparently did not government, and pledge to always uphold the law. follow her own advice because the email turned up in a If she can’t find it in herself to say those words, then public records request.)

Sharpe’s colleagues on the school board should call a vote The more important revelation of the email is Sharpe’s asking for her resignation. They should also pass a resolucasual rationalization of violating public records law in tion affirming respect for North Carolina’s public records “extenuating times.” It’s like someone demonstrating scrulaw and pledging to uphold it.

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CULTURE Local indie publisher Press 53 celebrates 12 years

by Spencer KM Brown

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ith binge-watching Netflix and endless cat videos and social media feeds, the thought of reading stories, novels or poetry seems perhaps archaic. And as entertainment shifted to these new platforms the book-publishing industry seemed doomed; attention spans waned and people found satisfaction in instant entertainment. In the early 2000s, many major book publishers were either going bankrupt or were bought out by big conglomerates. The idea of starting an independent publishing house seemed risky and almost foolishly romantic. And yet facing this hard market, and having just been laid off from his job the previous year, Kevin Morgan Watson published the first book under his new imprint Press 53 in October 2005.

“In 2004 I lost my day job in the airline industry, a victim of 9/11,” Watson said via email. “I began teaching workshops and editing for other writers, since the stress of looking for work was making it difficult for me to write.

I found that I really enjoyed the editing process, so I began studying book design and layout with the idea of starting a small local press that would give me a creative outlet until something else came along.”

With a small investment, Press 53 published its first book. All the money from those first sales went into the following book, and the next after that.

Watson saw no profits from the company until almost 2009.

Based in downtown Winston-Salem, HEDY SABBAGH HABRA Kevin Morgan Watson (left) visiting with poet Hedy Habra at the AWP Conference in 2014 Press 53 has published over 180 titles of poetry and short fiction collections by Barbee, and short-fiction authors Ray Morrison, Ed Southern, From meager beginnings and barely any budget scraped renowned and award-winning authors Carol Roan, Steve Mitchell and Shirley Deane. together to work with, 12 years and 180 titles is a far cry from like John Ehle, Joseph Mills, Taylor With dozens of authors and new titles each year, Watson where many independent presses end up. For Watson, it has Brown, Terri Kirby Erickson and Doris been an exciting and difficult road, and one that he has no never quite imagined his publishing endeavors would come Betts. intentions of abandoning any time soon. this far.

In celebration of 12 years of publish“In 2005, my plan was to publish a book or two a year, just “It’s exciting when we publish young upcoming authors like ing, a night of readings will be held at to keep my foot in the writing business until Stephanie Carpenter, and poets like Terri Kirby Erickson and Bookmarks I found other work and began writing again,” Joseph Mills who both have become internationally known,” Bookstore in To learn more about the Watson said.

“But when writers like David [Jauss] and Kelly Watson said.

“I had no idea this little press Winston-Salem [Cherry] and legends begin approaching you because they love would take off like it did. Once we signed John anniversary readings and on Oct. 9 at 7 Ehle in 2006 to republish his 1964 novel The what you are doing, well, that is a compliment to the press p.m. The night purchase new titles, visit Land Breakers as part of our new Carolina and to the authors we’ve published.” will include press53.com.

Classics series, and we received a hand-written As author Henry Miller once put it: “A book lying idle on a readings by letter from Harper Lee thanking us for reprintshelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept poets Terri ing one of her favorite books by one of her in constant circulation.” Literature has remained in our society Kirby Erickson, favorite authors of historical fiction, and newspapers picked for centuries, and it survives today in the Triad and across the Joseph Mills, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, country with advocates like Watson at the helm. up the story, we became well known.”

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CULTURE A dreamy bagel in biscuit country

by Eric Ginsburg

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hank god for bagels.

When I wake up on Friday morning, my 30th birthday, the first thing I’m going to eat is a bagel. I’ll make sure it’s fresh, hot and topped with cream cheese and lox at a minimum, but I’ll be looking to add a thick cut of tomato, some sliced onion and capers.

I’ll be in New York City, but if I’d decided to stay home to celebrate, it would’ve finally been easy to find what I was looking for.

Opening inside a former Taco Bell out by Piedmont Triad International Airport earlier this year, My Bagels & More doubled the number of places in Greensboro making fresh bagels, and it’s the only one with exactly what I’m looking for. Not to knock New Garden Bagels — I’ve relied on the straightforward bagel, lox and cream cheese there for several years, thanks to its New York owner — but My Bagels sells a signature Pop N’ Lox option with smoked salmon, cherry-wood bacon, lemon chive cream cheese, micro greens, red onion, tomato and capers.

That’s what I’m talking about.

There are a couple of bagel joints in Winston-Salem, and at least one business on the way in the Gate City promising bagels and doughnuts.

But for the most part, this is biscuit territory. I’d never want to give up biscuits, and would miss them more than almost anything else if I left the South. But why should we have to choose?

Yankee purists are skeptical, no doubt, but My Bagels even sells one The Pop N’ Lox bagel fills that void that exists throughout the south with Taylor ham, egg and cheese — it’s not going to get any better than that outside of the Northeast. than a fast-food chain. That’s fine though, because there’s There’s a drive-thru coming soon, ample seating including a café area at the back with better with the infrastructure from the coffee options, plusher seating, televisions, smoothies and former occupant setting it up nicely, a dessert case. meaning that the The Pop N’ Lox is just one of a restaurant could dozen specialty bagels, with other become an ideal ranging from the Urban Street with Visit My Bagels & More at place to stop for Korean-style ribeye, somewhat spicy some quick cofcucumber kimchi and pickles to the 5705 Inman Road (GSO) or fee and breakfast Peanut Butter Jelly Time (remember go to mybagelsandmore. on the way to an that meme?) with tempura-fried com for more info. early-morning bananas, peanut butter, Nutella, bacon flight. and blackberry jam. Another comes Before that with seared tuna steak, shredded nori happens, My Baand a wasabi cucumber spread, while gels will have to speed up its producothers boast shaved prime rib and grilled crab cake (yes, on tion times, which right now are more the same sandwich), house pulled pork with a hush puppy in the ballpark of a typical restaurant fritter and the appetizing Nonnas Croquette with a grilled

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salmon croquette, teriyaki glaze, grilled pineapple, melted Swiss cheese, guacamole and a fried egg.

The Pop N’ Lox was a must, and in order to try a variety of My Bagels’ creations, I skipped Nonnas (that would’ve been two salmon-based entrees, my girlfriend pointed out) and went for the Urban Street, which shares a name with the local food truck presenting similar fare. I didn’t regret it.

I’d be excited about My Bagels if there wasn’t a “More” in the name, content to work my way through the specials alone and avoiding the cheaper, classic breakfast choices.

Hell, I’d send people there just for the Pop N’ Lox. I’ll never tire of it — especially because the restaurant is far enough in northwest Greensboro to make frequent trips a challenge — unless somewhere better opened (though that’s improbable).

But My Bagels commits to a much broader array of food, namely fries and hot dogs.

fried chicken and bacon, shaved pastrami, prosciutto or another loaded with veggies. Or just buy black forest ham, mortadella bologna, corned beef or chicken salad by the pound, or one of the small tubs of ready-made cream cheese.

There are gluten-free bagels too, if you must.

This Friday, I’ll treat myself to a New York-made bagel, because it doesn’t get better than that. But when I get back, I’ll head to My Bagels & More, and I won’t be mad about it.

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Hot dogs range from Chicago to Carolina to New York to Mexico, as well as a similar Korean Urban Street dog and one with mac & cheese, pulled pork, barbecue sauce and fried onions. It’s like Red Onion never closed.

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CULTURE Drag queen Jean Jacket and the wild things

by Lauren Barber

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ate morning sunlight gleamed through tall French doors leading out of the brick-walled back room of Scuppernong Books while drag queen Jean Jacket — who declined to share a given name — read Maurice Sendak‘s Where the Wild Things Are to an attentive audience of young children. They sat leaning forward on their mothers’ laps or peered upward from the floor, fixated on each page flip and mostly keeping quiet.

Scuppernong hosts storytime readings for children on Saturdays year-round, but this year the last Saturday of every month turned into something special: Local drag queens like Jean Jacket began to take the lead for a series called the “Queen’s Storytime.” Stonewall Sports — a LGBTQ and ally non-profit sports league — sponsors the readings and helps find queens enthusiastic to participate.

After her third reading last weekend, Jean Jacket said in an interview that what she enjoys most is seeing the joy on the kids’ faces.

“There’s one little boy who came running in the door yelling my name, excited to see me today,” Jean Jacket said. “It’s fun to see those repeats who remember you and are excited that you’re the one reading.”

That 5-year-old boy’s name is Knox Peeples. He said that although he doesn’t like to wear dresses himself, he enjoys seeing Jean Jacket’s outfits each week.

LAUREN BARBER Drag queen Jean Jacket reads Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to a late morning audience at “They don’t understand gender Scuppernong Books on Saturday Sept. 30. yet, so this way you can introduce them to that culture a lot earliand frightening for young children given its illustrations of ent ways… and it’s not a right or wrong way.” er before society tries to teach them moonlit monsters and psycho-dramatic depictions of anger Few of the dozen or so children who stayed after the readnorms,” Jean Jacket said. ing exhibited much shyness as they joined Jean Jacket at the and helplessness.

Saturday’s reading fell at the end Like Sendak, though, the parents who bring their young craft table to construct Wild Things-inspired masks with paper of the bookstore’s participation in ones to the Queen’s Storytime don’t underestimate what their plates. The young mask-makers found eight-packs of Crayola national Banned Books Week, which children are capable of processing. Some parents said they crayons, large markers and pre-cut, construction-paper bunny brings awareness to censorship past were attracted to the event specifically because it presents an ears scattered around a mountain of pink, green and purple and present and emphasizes the right opportunity to foster their children’s psychological and social pipe-cleaners that many used to fasten their final creations to to free expression, and Wild Things their heads. Hordes of black, blue and red googly eyes stared development. was a purposefully subversive choice. vacantly from the tabletop until they brought masks — often “We can start a good conversation in the house about how Sendak’s 1963 picture book faced already covered indiscriminately with craft pom-poms — to different people are and how different people express themwidespread censorship in the South for selves, which is part of why he was so excited this time,” said life. its representations of the supernatural Shannon Peeples, Knox’s mother. “He started to process it Jean Jacket drew eyeliner and thick eyelashes around a large after its publishing and some critics still more when last time he was a little bit shy. He’s learning it’s set of googly eyes on a plate she sliced clean in half and affixed argue that it’s too emotionally mature to her headband with highlighter yellow pipe-cleaners before okay to be who you are and we all decide to show up in differ-

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moving around the table to praise and bookstore in the Triad to host one, help children individually. drag-queen story hours originated as a “I made it kind of creepy because it phenomenon in San Francisco two years doesn’t have any ears,” Knox said of his ago. Queens regularly read to children mask. in libraries, classrooms and bookstores Instead, Knox’s menacing yet adorable in large coastal cities like Los Angeles creation featured a gaping red and black and New York City, all in the name of asymmetrical mouth and beady eyes cultivating imagination and familiarizing below angry eyebrows. A colorful array children with healthy, fluid expressions of pipe-cleaners representing hair stood of gender and sexuality, driving home at attention up top, lending some lightthe point that gender identities are conheartedness to his handiwork. structed and that their parents support Stephanie their agency to Hawkins, 34, express themLearn more about Stonewall said the Queen’s selves.

Storytime also “I think the Sports at stonewallgreensboro. appeals to more we’re leagueapps.com and Scuppernong around everyparents trying Books at scuppernongbooks.com. body from all to get out of the house with their different walks kids for an enof life we realize riching activity we’re not all they can all appreciate. that different,” Peeples said. “At the end “It’s sort of a no-judgement zone and of the day we want to read with our kids, a good Saturday morning,” said Hawmake crafts with our kids, want to be kins, whose daughter is nearly 3 years able to sit in an environment that’s safe old. “Good coffee, good story, good and inclusive and welcoming. I think the craft. And it’s unique; there’s no other more we have the opportunity to see opportunity like it.” those perspectives, we can start to erase While Scuppernong is the first those walls.”

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“Reckon so” A/C measurement Tesla founder Musk On one’s own Some big shade sources Professor McGonagall, in the Potterverse Southeast Asian language that becomes a country if you add an S Playroom container Bond portrayer, still John who married Pocahontas Nature spirit of Greek myth Suffix for pepper Electrical units now called siemens Some muffin ingredients Indonesian island Choir range Bowie’s rock genre Soccer stadium shout

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