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Over the years and at irregular intervals, we’ve marked the children’s height with pencil on a stretch of wall space in

by Brian Clarey the dining room entryway. Over the years they’ve climbed like a slowly growing earthworm, a family history writ small in initials and dates.

I noticed this morning that my babygirl, who becomes a teenager in about a week, is almost as tall as her mother. A painful sweetness aches my heart when I look at her and simultaneously see the tiny baby who used to grab my nose and the confident young woman she’s becoming.

It helps, I find, to focus on the way she is now.

My wife and I are almost 20 years into our little homesteading experiment that really began early one morning in a New Orleans barroom, where she had the audacity to order a glass of orange juice with no ice. And we’re slowly coming to grips with the fact that we’re approaching the next phase.

Our middle child, complicated like his father, lays deep in the couch of teenage

angst that for me was a cauldron of deep discontent, one that brought my disrespect for authority and outlaw tendencies to a slow boil. We have yet to see where this will lead him, but unlike his father he’s set his sights pretty high.

His pencil mark on the wall took a 5-inch upwards bound this year, and I believe the next time he’ll click up a notch in the rankings.

I currently hold the highest mark on the wall, besting our oldest son by a fraction of an inch; I expect him to pass me any day now.

The eldest is beginning to ease out of the teenage insanity, to see his future more clearly, to understand that his childhood will eventually have to come to an end. Like all of my children, he is in much better shape to handle the rigors of what comes next than I was.

He’s off to college in the fall, the first of our baby chicks to fly the coop, making this the last Halloween, the last Thanksgiving, the last Christmas with our little family intact.

Off they’ll go, one by one. And then, not long after, we’ll make those final pencil marks on the wall.

After that, their growth is up to them.

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CITY LIFE OCT. 26 – 27

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY City council candidate forum @ the Yard at Revolution Mill (GSO), 5:30 p.m.

More than a dozen organizations across the Triad partner to host a candidate forum where community members can learn about city council candidates. Bring questions for the candidates, and enjoy beer, wine and snacks while mingling. Find the event on Facebook.

FRIDAY Halloween Safari @ Piedmont Environmental Center (HP), 7 p.m.

The High Point Parks and Recreation Department presents a family-friendly, non-spooky trek through the woods during which costumed “animals” educate the group about their habitats, diet and other fun facts about their species.

Wear sturdy shoes and bring a flashlight for the 45-minute walk that precedes a campfire gathering complete with apple cider at the end. Find the event on Facebook.

Silent Night @ Piedmont Opera (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Chasing Trane @ Centennial Station Arts Center (HP), 7 p.m.

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The Piedmont Opera presents Silent Night, Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary opera in honor the 100th anniversary of America’s entrance into World War I. This will be the first time the opera has been produced in North Carolina. Piedmont Opera is the smallest company in the world to produce the show. The opera will run through Oct. 31. Learn more and find tickets at piedmontopera.org.

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The High Point Arts Council and RiverRun present Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary in Coltrane’s native High Point as the first Indie Lens Pop-Up event of the new season. Award-winning actor Denzel Washington narrates several of Coltrane’s print interviews throughout the film. A community panel discussion will follow this free screening. Learn more at highpointarts.org.

The Unconventional Trio @ the Garage (W-S), 8:30 p.m.

A trio of acclaimed jazz musicians converge for a rare improvisational, progressive jazz concert. John Ray, a Camel City-based progressive and futurist jazz bassist who integrates computer effects in performances, invited Stephen Gordon, a renowned jazz pianist and drummer, and Stephen Riley, a world-class tenor saxophonist, to join his on stage for this impromptu performance. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY Halloween Comic Fest @ Acme Comics (GSO), 10 a.m.

The longest standing comic book store in central North Carolina hosts a spooky comic fest featuring a dozen free comics and free art. Meet local comic artists and participate in short-burst Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.

Participating players throughout the day will be entered into a prizes raffle and new players are welcome. Find the event on Facebook.

Fall Festival @ Fifth Season Gardening (GSO), noon Fifth Season Gardening celebrates fall with live music alongside specialty drinks from FruitTickler, coffee from Alamance Kaffee Werks, samples from Preyer Brewing and Gunny Smitty’s hot dogs. Local artisans Hillary Dawkins Whitt and the Bang Cult Vintage are on site to sell clothes, accessories, art and jewelry. Learn more at fifthseasongreensboro.com.

Día de los Muertos @ High Point Museum (HP), noon The YWCA Latino Family Center guides a discussion about immigrant culture and traditions practiced in High Point to the High Point Museum in celebration of Día de los Muertos. Learn about Latinx culture and peruse Jose Galvez’s photography exhibit while enjoying traditional food and observing Día de los Muertos altars. Find the event on Facebook.

Delicious by Shereen Pop-Up @ Aperture Cinema (WS), 12:30 p.m.

In conjunction with screenings of “Human Flow,” — internationally-renowned artist Ai WeiWei’s expressive film concerning contemporary mass migration — Aperture hosts a pop-up baked goods sale from Delicious by Shereen. Delicious works with more than a dozen local refugee families navigating integration in the United States through sharing their culinary knowledge. Find the event on Facebook.

A Lemony Snicket Halloween @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 2 p.m.

Come in costume to see WFDD’s David Ford appear as children’s book character Lemony Snicket and lead attendees around the orchestra on a collaborative effort to solve detective mysteries. At 3 p.m., the Winston-Salem Symphony performs pieces like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre” for its spooky Halloween concert. Children can hold, play and learn about instruments at an “instrument petting zoo,” engage in craft activities and help solve who kidnapped Symphony Sam beginning at 2 p.m. Learn more and find tickets at wssymphony.org.

SUNDAY Jewish festival @ Temple Emanuel (GSO), 11 a.m.

Learn about and indulge in foods like matzah ball soup, bagels and bialys with lox, noodle kugel, knishes and desserts like homemade rugelach during a day-long celebration of Jewish faith and culture. Enjoy klezmer music by the Sinai Mountain Ramblers while browsing artisans’ fine art and jewelry, or head indoors for a tour about the temple’s architecture. A kids’ zone features face painting, crafts and inflatables. Learn more at gsojfest.org.

Hand-to-Hand Mini Market @ Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Company (GSO), noon More than 15 artists, crafters, collectors and designers from across the Southeast converge to showcase hand-crafted goods, art and vintage apparel, accessories, houseware and music at this indoor craft market. Bring the whole family and grab lunch at an on-site food truck. Learn more at handtohandmarket.com.

HalloWheels Trick-or-Trail Ride @ Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company (W-S), 6 p.m.

BeersNGears leads a gravel and a single-track group on a creepy ride around Salem Lake. Following the ride, participate in a costume contest and enjoy food from a food truck, local brews and live music at Fiddlin’ Fish. Bike lights are required and cyclists will begin at 6:30 p.m. Learn more about the ride and HalloWheels, a three-day bicycle festival, at beersngears.com.å

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chooses the megasite, Greensboro will be the city that because Toyota has no factories in the state, giving the benefits most, but the plant will also spur a population company an opportunity to garner the support of anand development boom on other congressional delegathe north side of Randolph tion in its quest for regulaSimply put, there’s no better way County. And via Interstate tory approval to undertake a 74, the new jobs will also be partnership with Mazda. to raise Triad residents’ standard a 30- to 45-minute commute The importance of this of living than secure employment away for residents of High project comes down to jobs. that pays a decent wage.

Point and the southeastern Simply put, there’s no better quadrant of Winston-Salem way to raise Triad residents’ and Forsyth County. standard of living than secure Not to say that this project employment that pays a decent wage. Place-making is important, but for people will solve the staggering challenges faced by our without disposable income, a relentless focus on farmdemocracy, but rewarding employment and the sense ers markets, bike paths, new restaurants and brewpubs, that it’s possible to get ahead has a way of redirecting racial and religious bigotry. A good job is an unbeatable Trader Joe’s and other amenities can begin to feel like social program. a cruel tease. Folks who are willing to work hard should Keep it up. have the opportunity to earn a decent living, and they should be able to build equity however they want, whether it’s a condo in Greensboro’s Southside, a ranch house in High Point, or a trailer at the end of a gravel road in Randolph County.

If Toyota and Madza or some other large employer

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It might be unfashionable for an altweekly journalist to say, but the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite is essential to the Triad’s economic growth. It can’t be repeated enough that the project is potentially transformative for our region, that the millions of dollars invested are worth the potential return and that all the players — elected officials, economic developers, philanthropists, Duke Energy and the North Carolina Railroad — deserve kudos for moving this project forward.

No, we don’t want to make the mistake of putting all of our eggs in one basket. And yes, we will inevitably need to sacrifice a little of our dignity to shell out huge tax incentives at the state and local levels to land a big employer. We’re talking about 4,000 jobs potentially.

The objective seems a little closer with Richard M. Barron’s report in Wednesday’s News & Record that North Carolina is on a short list of three states ToyotaMazda is considering for a joint electric-car factory.

Barron quotes site-selection consultant John Boyd as saying that the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite is the most qualified among a handful across the state.

And Boyd believes North Carolina has an advantage

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Reshaping the federal judiciary in NC

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2011 to defend its worst-in-the-nation voter-suppression law that required voter ID, cut early voting, and eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting and preregistration for high school students.

The federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the 1aw, concluding that it targeted African-Americans “with almost surgical precision” and characterizing it as “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.”

Despite this history, North Carolina’s two Republican senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis support Farr’s confirmation. Tillis sits on the committee considering Farr’s nomination, and Burr introduced him at his nomination hearing last month.

So, while the current administration is largely deemed a failure in terms of passing legislation, it’s clear that racist white operatives scattered across all levels of government aim to suppress the public — especially those who might not align with them politically — in the courts, at the polls and beyond. Their scheme seems to be paying off, and Farr’s likely confirmation would be just the latest part of this onslaught.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the legal career. confirmation of Thomas Farr, a Republican lawyer notoriIn 1992, the Justice Department filed a complaint ous for defending voter suppression laws, to a lifetime against former NC senator Jesse Helms’ 1990 re-election appointment on the US District campaign for intimidating black Court for the Eastern District voters. Farr happily defended the of North Carolina on Thursday. man that the Washington Post once His confirmation would fill a seat called one of “the last prominent open since 2005, the longest unabashed white racist politicians in judicial vacancy in our nation’s this country.” The Helms campaign history, according to NC Policy settled the suit while denying fault, Watch. according to the New York Times.

Farr, originally nominated His law partner of three decades,

by George W. Bush in 2006, Thomas Ellis, is a segregationist stands in stark contrast to Jenwho — also according to the Times nifer May-Parker and Patricia — suggested North Carolina shut Timmons-Goodson, the two down public schools rather than black women former President participate in integration efforts in Obama nominated for the same the wake of Brown vs. the Board of seat during his tenure. Though Education and served as director of Census data shows the territory Tom Pharr (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) the Pioneer Fund from 1973 to 1977, is 27 percent African-American, an organization that rabidly supno black judge has ever resided on the bench. This reality ported eugenics research for nearly half a century. makes Farr’s nomination even more disturbing given his More recently, the state of North Carolina hired Farr in

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Recent Census numbers suggest ‘catastrophic’ jump in poverty

by Jordan Green

Some question whether poverty actually jumped 6.6 points from 2015 to 2016, but no one doubts that poverty is a stubborn challenge for Greensboro. And there are troubling signs that part-time work and depressed wages are holding workers back.

period,” Schwartz wrote. “Contacts at both APA and the Urban Institute speculated this could be a sampling anomaly given the other economic data.”

The new poverty rate comes at an inopportune time for Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who is up for re-election on When Planning Director Sue Nov. 7, with early voting already underSchwartz saw the most recent 1-year way. Further compounding the percepestimate released by the Census for the tion of economic distress, Vaughan city of Greensboro last month, she was received the unwelcome news last week astonished. The latest numbers show the that International Textile Group is poverty rate jumping by 6.6 points from shuttering its flagship White Oak Cone 2015 to 2016, from 16.2 percent to 22.8 Denim plant in Greensboro, eliminating percent. about 200 jobs. Among North Carolina’s “This looks like something catastrophfive largest cities, Greensboro is the only ic,” she said. “It’s like something you one that charted an increase in poverty. would expect to see in a city where there “We are extremely concerned about had been multiple plant closings. You such a large jump,” Vaughan said. would expect to see this in New Orleans “We’ve never had such a large jump, after Hurricane Katrina, or some towns even during the recession. in Florida. We haven’t gone through “We’re going to continue an aggressive anything like that.” program to make sure everyone prosAs Schwartz reported to City Manpers,” the mayor added. “We’re focusing ager Jim Westmoreland and Assistant on workforce development, and developCity Manager Barbara Harris in a Sept. ing a favorable climate for small business 29 memo, city planners consulted the and medium-sized businesses. This is American Planning Association and something that has our full attention. We the Urban Institute at UNC Charlotte know it’s really increasing wages that’s for help understanding the numbers. going to make a difference.”

Schwartz’s memo pointed to other data Andrew Brod, senior research felthat she said “paint a different picture.” low in UNCG’s Center for Business The city’s unemployment rate hovered and Economic Research who reviewed around 5 percent for the past few years, the new Census numbers for Triad City she said, adding that Greensboro’s labor Beat, said the reported 6.2 percent jump force of 146,267 is the largest it’s been in poverty appears to be a function of since the Bureau of Labor Statistics “sampling error.” He noted that the started keeping numbers in 1990. And 2015 estimate of 16.2 percent seems the same numbers abnormally low, folthat indicated a lowing the previous significant jump five years at which it ‘You have a movement of in poverty provide hovered around 20 people from full-time to “contradictory” percent. Brod said information on part-time and people who the 3- to 5-year avergrowth, with popuages released by the have been out of the work- Census Bureau are lation rising slightly while the number of typically more reliforce coming into it.’ households, housing able. Based on the – John Quinterno units and families 5-year average from went down.

2011 through 2015, “While it is probable the poverty rate the poverty rate appears to be stuck at for the city of Greensboro has increased a stubborn 20 percent, comparable to in 2016, it is the magnitude of this inDurham, favorable to Winston-Salem’s crease that is in question given the other 24.8 percent rate, and worse than Raeconomic indicators for the same time leigh and Charlotte, with 16.0 percent

The sell-off of Lorillard Tobacco and reduction of hours at the plant is emblematic of the precarity of employment in Greensboro.

and 16.8 percent respectively.

“My overall take is that things are not going well in the Greensboro economy, and it’s fair to wonder why the poverty rate hasn’t fallen as the national expansion passes the 8-year mark,” Brod said in a Facebook message. “But I don’t think it’s fair to conclude that things suddenly got worse, based on 1-year citylevel Census data. I don’t believe that Greensboro’s poverty rate fell sharply in 2015, and I don’t believe it shot up again in 2016. The usual approach would get around this problem.”

In a column published in the Triad Business Journal in July, Brod wrote that the Greensboro-High Point and Winston-Salem metro areas are more like rural North Carolina in terms of job growth than “high flyers” Raleigh and Charlotte, adding that the Triad cities “face long-term structural challenges related to declining manufacturing industries.”

While Brod is skeptical of the lurch represented by the 1-year estimates in 2015 -16, John Quinterno, a Chapel Hill-based economic research consultant and visiting lecturer at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, said the 2016 data is “highly reliable.” He noted that the Census reports

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a margin of error of 2.4 points, meaning that “there is a 90 percent chance that the true value lies somewhere between 20.8 percent and 25.2 percent.” He added that the “the increase from 2015 was indeed statistically significant. You can be 90 percent certain, then, that the observed difference is due to something other than chance.”

Quinterno pointed to an increase in the number of part-time workers in Greensboro as a possible explanation for the 1-year lurch in the poverty rate.

While the Census reported that the number of people 16 years and older who worked part-time or part-year in the past 12 months increased from 47,677 in 2015 to 54,097 in 2016, the percentage of part-timers in poverty increased from 21.7 percent to 31.8 percent over the same period. While the part-time workers increased, the number of full-time workers and people who didn’t work at all each went down.

“You have a movement of people from full-time to part-time and people who have been out of the workforce coming into it,” Quinterno said. “There are some people coming on to the ladder and some people moving down the ladder.”

Sarah Glover, manager of community

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large candidate Dave Wils.

“We are looking at healthcare, aviation and advance manufacturing,” Vaughan said. “Those are the type of jobs that will rival the jobs of old. We also learned a lesson that we can’t put all our eggs in one basket. Just last week, we saw another result of NAFTA with the White Oak plant closing. We need to focus on small business and homegrown business.”

The Rev. Diane Moffett, Vaughan’s opponent in the mayoral race, said the primary focus of her campaign is poverty, and how it relates to crime and hopelessness. As mayor, she said her first order of business would be to assess

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not going down and staff are continuously seeing new guests.

“This is not a surprise when you’ve been in this work,” Kennedy said. “We know that we have an issue with affordable housing. We have an issue with living-wage employment. We have an issue with trying to connect workers to jobs.”

Vaughan and other candidates for city council advocate similar ideas for promoting job growth to curb poverty — “a multi-pronged approach” in Vaughan’s parlance; “all hands on deck,” as District 4 candidate Gary Kenton puts it; and a “both-and approach,” according to at-

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Source: US Census Bureau

what programs are working well to address poverty, and that she would strengthen the city’s relationship with United Way. “We need to encourage people to help,” Moffett said. “There are people who would love to. They just don’t know what they can do, and they’re isolated. The leadership is important.”

Marikay Abuzuaiter, who is running for her fourth term at-large on council, highlighted the city’s 20 percent poverty rate during an unsuccessful campaign in 2009. And in a recent campaign questionnaire, she cited poverty as the city’s biggest challenge.

“One in five people [being poor] — that’s much more than what we want to be,” Abuzuaiter said. She added, “I think we’re doing everything in our current power to reduce poverty. I just worry about what can we be doing more to see if there is some out-of-the-box thinking.”

Some of the city’s current efforts to reduce poverty include providing tax incentives to companies that pay good wages, realigning public transit to connect people with jobs, and promoting retraining so that residents are eligible for available jobs, Abuzuaiter said.

Kenton said the three issues that compelled him to run for council were poverty, race and jobs, which he considers to be interconnected.

“Inequality is on the rise, and poverty is not being alleviated,” he said.

“This should be the No. 1 topic of discussion for city council every day.”

Kenton and Sharon Hightower, who is seeking her third term as representative of District 1, both cited the importance of increasing contracting opportunities for people of color through the city’s Minority & Women Business Enterprise program.

“We need to have open dialogue among all, including making sure when developers come in they know what our primary focus is — to provide them a good workforce and a place for people to live in affordable housing,” Hightower said. “Good schools for our kids. Healthy people so our people aren’t laying out of work. We have to make sure we set the right tone.”

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impact for the United Way of Greater Greensboro, said the part-time work explanation makes sense. In 2014, the agency realigned its mission to make reducing poverty its sole focus.

“The shift from full-time to part-time work rings true based on what I’ve heard in the community,” Glover said. “I’m hearing a lot of people who want to work saying they’re not seeing enough hours.”

Ed Whitfield, a co-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities — a private foundation that helped establish the Renaissance Community Cooperative — says there’s a name for people who are stuck in part-time work: “the precariat,” or members of the proletariat class who find themselves in precarious circumstances.

“There are a lot of people working two and three jobs trying to piece together the compensation that someone would expect from one job,” Whitfield said. “It’s weird how well the stock market is doing, but the actual situation for a lot of people in the workforce is pretty dire. There’s very little unemployment; under-employment is more the issue. A lot of people have given up on working, or they’re working two or three jobs.”

Whitfield said Lorillard Tobacco, which was bought by Reynolds American in 2014 and then broken up and re-sold to Imperial Brands, is emblematic of the challenges experienced by manufacturing workers in Greensboro.

“That was once the paragon of a good job,” Whitfield said. “The union there feels under attack. They cut back on production, and folks are not comfortable with the hours they’re getting.”

He added that the biggest employers in Greensboro are universities, hospitals and local government.

“Once you get out of that,” Whitfield said, “it’s a very precarious environment.”

Mayor Nancy Vaughan said regardless of the reliability of the 2016 Census numbers, “We’re not just saying it’s a mistake. We’re looking at them and taking them seriously.”

For one city council contender, at-large candidate Michelle Kennedy, poverty is a familiar subject. As executive director of the Interactive Resource Center, which serves people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of becoming homeless, Kennedy said her agency’s numbers are

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Accelerator help entrepreneur build health and beauty business

by Jordan Green

Americans, the Winston-Salem entrepreneur figures her ground-up approach will be more responsive to her clients’ needs.

Herndon-Edmunds started the accelerator at the beginning of August. The first seven weeks consisted of two onlineShayla Herndon-Edmunds’ healthcoursework sessions per week, and in the and-beauty business is a home operation. eighth week participants from around Much of the time, the surface space in the region came together in person for her dining room and living room are coaching and peer support. monopolized by trays of soap setting “The common theme that was somein a drying process that takes four to what reassuring is how overwhelming it six weeks. Her KitchenAid mixer has is,” Herndon-Edmunds said. “You start performed reliable service turning out thinking: Maybe it’s just me that’s having batches of shea butter. a hard time. I feel like my team helped Thanks to a $25,000 me refine how I think award from the Kilpatabout my niche.” rick Townsend law firm The $25,000 award, ‘In communities of which in Winston-Salem in also comes with color, barbershops a commitment of 12 recognition her first-place finish in the 2017 Creare sacred space. months of mentoring, ative Startups Southern fills a crucial gap in the It’s like church.’

Accelerator, Herndondevelopment of Oh My – Shayla HerndonEdmunds is ready to scale Goodness Herbal Bar. up her business, Oh My Herndon said most banks Edmunds Goodness Herbal Bar. require small businesses to Herndon-Edmunds, go three years cash posiwho serves as director of diversity educative before they’ll consider making a loan tion at Wake Forest University, had long — something that’s simply not realistic recognized an unfilled need for healthy for a start-up. beauty products for people of color.

“This has given me an advantage “I can remember being a kid going to to get started that I wouldn’t have a retail store with my mom, and there other than raising money from family was only a section of an aisle geared and friends — which isn’t an option,” towards African Americans and people Herndon-Edmunds said. of color,” Herndon-Edmunds said durThe $25,000 award is an interest-free ing a recent interview at Dioli’s Italian loan, and Herndon-Edmunds said part Market, up the street from her office at of the beauty of the arrangement is that Wake Forest. “I’m 37 years old, and it’s while she builds her business, she’ll be still one end cap or a couple shelves. Less circulating money back into a fund to Winston-Salem entrepreneur Shayla Herndon-Edmunds seeks to meet a COURTESY PHOTO than a quarter of the products are made support other entrepreneurs down the growing demand for organic health and beauty products. with healthy ingredients. This product line. She’s been meeting recently with ston-Salem is important to HerndonShe’s already received requests from might be attentive to an issue I’m having the Center for Creative Economy, the Edmunds. employees of large institutions like with skin eczema and acne, but it comes Winston-Salem nonprofit that hosts the “What I’m excited about is launching hospitals to come by and showcase her with toxic ingredients. I have two small Creative Startups’ Southeastern Acregular pop-up shops,” she said. “I love products. children, and I get to decide what health celerator, to figure out how to spend the for someone to come to me and say, ‘I “I want to go the old-fashioned route and beauty products they use for 18 money and come up with a repayment have sensitive skin, but I love lavender. and pick a day of the week to go to years. I figured I can create a solution.” schedule.

How would that smell with vanilla?’ barber shops and beauty parlors, and see Herndon-Edmunds said AfricanIn the short term, Herndon-Edmunds ‘Well, let’s see.’” if they would be willing to be a distribuAmerican women spend $7.5 billion is exploring the possibility of leasing Shea, an oil derived from the nuts in tion or supply line,” Herndon-Edmunds annually on health and beauty products, from a maker space with a culinary-arts a small tropical African tree, is a revered said. “In communities of color, barberand meanwhile overall spending on focus that’s in the planning stages. staple of beauty products geared towards shops are sacred space. It’s like church. natural and organic health and beauty Although 80 percent of Oh My GoodAfrican Americans, but HerndonYou trust your barber to recommend products is projected to grow to $19.8 ness’ sales are online with a reach across Edmunds’ offerings differ by shunning products. It’ll help me because I’ll always billion by 2022. While some of the the country that includes military bases, artificial additives. have a focus group.” products are being marketed to African direct contact with customers in WinShayla Herndown-Edmunds, who won a $25,000 award through the 2017 Creative Startups Southern Accelerator, wants to keep her health and beauty products business close to the ground.

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Denim city no more?

Cone Mills’ White Oak Plant, which parent company International Textile Group announced last week will cease operations by the end of the year, is more than just a mill.

At the height of its output in the late 1940s, thousands of Draper fly-shuttle looms put out miles of selvedge denim used to clothe a nation of workers.

But the mill also anchored a community, with its own neighborhoods, its own schools and stores, even its own dairy.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that without Cone Mills and its short chain of manufacturing in the northeast corner of town — including Revolution Mill, recently remodeled into a high-dollar residential, retail and restaurant facility, and Proximity Mill, built in 1896 and now overtaken by weeds, wild trees and graffiti — Greensboro would not be the city it is.

The Cone brothers built the White Oak Mill in 1905 strictly for denim, in high demand for miners, cowboys, soldiers and others engaged in building the nation.

Within three years it was the largest denim producer in the world.

Fueled by steady streams of cotton from the Deep South and ready labor coming through the Overseas Replacement Depot, the mill became the city’s largest employer by the 1920s — one out of The final fate of the every seven residents White Oak plant, this worked at one of the mills, and many of last vestige of our the rest relied on the industrial past, has millworkers’ business yet to be determined. to stay afloat.

Decades of corporate consolidation and offshore production have stripped away Greensboro’s heritage as the textile center of the world, but at least we could still say that the very best denim in the world came from the North Carolina heartland.

Not anymore.

The final fate of the White Oak plant, this last vestige of our industrial past, has yet to be determined.

Perhaps it will go the way of Revolution Mill, refurbished into an industrial-chic complex, or be razed and the land recast for condos.

Or maybe someone will see buy up those Draper fly-shuttle looms — there are still a few hundred of them in operation at the White Oak plant, rocking the floorboards and swinging out that good selvedge denim, the pride of Greensboro — and continue the denim tradition that put the city on the map. Maybe VF, the city’s major apparel brand, is up to the task.

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Flake and political polarization on road to fascism

Slowly but surely, President States.

Trump is consolidating conOn election night in Alabama, Bannon spoke of “starting trol over the Republican Party a revolution with Judge Moore’s victory,” before celebrat— through bullying, polarization ing Corker’s retirement announcement and promising a and division, of course. sweep “ in state after state” to bring candidates like Moore The moderates, of course, were to power. He has since singled out Republican incumbents purged long ago. The impendin Utah, Mississippi, Wyoming and Nebraska, and has ing exits of Sen. Bob Corker of reportedly met with Arpaio, who is considering a run for the

by Jordan Green Tennessee and Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona Senate seat to be vacated by Flake.

Arizona are not an ideological recalibration of the party so Trump’s miscalculation in the Alabama special election much as the whimpering surrender of the politics of civility, in a sense demonstrates that his presidency is as much a common decency and compromise. While Flake notably symptom as the driver of the white-resentment politics parts ways with Trump on the issues of immigration and tearing the United States apart. His only core beliefs apTrade, FiveThirtyEight reports that the Arizona senator’s pear to be his own self-aggrandizement and white supremvotes have aligned with 89.8 percent of Trump’s positions. acy; otherwise, he demonstrates the showman’s talent for As Corker and Flake step off the stage, Steve Bannon is latching on to whatever conservative cause is generating waging a nationalist insurgency against the party estabthe hottest passions, whether it’s dismantling Obamacare, lishment to fill the Senate chamber with Trump loyalists abortion, the Second Amendment, the “war on Christmas,” made in the image of the president’s nativist fury and racial the Common Core curriculum, Islamophobia, or clampresentment politics. The remaking of the GOP is all about ing down on immigration. If Trump’s “fine people” label the enforcement of an orthodoxy of rage that insists on for those who demonstrate alongside neo-Nazis or other vanquishing political opponents and mobilizing a narrow circumstantial evidence doesn’t prove Trump’s racism, a base against dissenters. passage from John R. O’Donnell’s 1991 book Trumped! The One of the ironies of the past couple months is that Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump — His Cunning Rise Trump actually campaigned for the establishment candiand Spectacular Fall should be considered definitive. date in Alabama’s special election to fill Attorney General O’Donnell recounted a conversation he had with Trump Jeff Sessions’ vacant seat, while Bannon about an African-American employee in backed the populist firebrand Roy Moore, Trump Plaza’s finance department. who fashioned himself after Trump. Of “I think the guy is lazy,” Trump is The only reason course, Trump electrified his supporters reported to have said. “And it’s probably Corker and Flake are not his fault because laziness is a trait in in Huntsville, Ala. on Sept. 22 by calling for the firing of black football players who blacks. It really is. I believe that. It’s not sounding the alarm protest police brutality by kneeling during anything they can control…. Don’t you against Trump is the National Anthem, thereby eclipsing the agree?” because they realize candidate he was supposed to be promotWhether intentionally or by happening. While Luther Strange went down in stance, Trump’s inflammation of racial they can’t win their defeat, it was Roy Moore — a Christian resentment against black NFL players primaries. theocrat with ties to white nationalists and Bannon’s efforts to engineer an and neo-Confederates who campaigned electoral revolution are working to the dressed in a cowboy outfit and brandishing same effect. Of course, they’re making a a pistol — who came out triumphant. high-stakes wager that could backfire by giving Democrats Moore shares an important similarity with one of Trump’s an opportunity to flip seats in matchups with extremist Reallies, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Both publican opponents. Yet it’s doubtful there are enough dishave demonstrated contempt for the rule of law. Arpaio, affected Republican voters willing to switch their support. later to be pardoned by the president, was convicted of After all, the only reason Corker and Flake are sounding criminal contempt of court for defying a federal injunction the alarm against Trump is because they realize they can’t against conducting immigration roundups, while Moore win their primaries; the reason none of their Republican was removed from his elected post as chief justice of the colleagues are joining them is they know their voters would Alabama Supreme Court — not once, but twice: for refuspunish them accordingly if they crossed Trump. ing to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments Meanwhile, Trump has a more riveting value proposition from the court and for instructing magistrates that they to offer the electorate — nationalism laden with racial rewere not required to follow the federal court ruling allowing sentment, misogyny, xenophobia and Islamophobia — than same-sex marriage. Notably, Moore and Arpaio, alongside the other side. The Democrats’ message, so far, echoes Trump, both vocally promoted the racist conspiracy theory their losing theme in 2016: We’re not Trump. that President Obama was born outside of the United

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CULTURE Perennial LoFi, ballpark bar gets a reboot

by Eric Ginsburg

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ust a few years ago, when I moved to a small pocket neighborhood on the northwestern corner of downtown Greensboro, this area only offered two places to drink.

But when a few friends and I meandered past Boston’s House of Jazz one night — a small, almost windowless box of a bar along the corner of the Grasshoppers stadium — and decided to try it out, we immediately gave up when we learned that the club charged a $10 cover.

“You’re kidding, right?” we scoffed.

“This is Greensboro. No f***ing way.”

None of us made that much in an hour, and we could take that and buy 10 beers nearby. And that’s what we did.

We spent the next several years at Westerwood Tavern, which as far as we were concerned, served as the lone nightlife venue in the vicinity. The cooler full of expensive craft options hadn’t been installed there yet, and while the bathroom was decidedly more appealing than the alternative at College Hill another 15-minute walk south, where I still held my nose every time I entered.

Obviously much has changed since the vacant parking lots along Smith Street became multi-story apartment complexes, Deep Roots Market moved in and Crafted: The Art of Street Food showed up along with two breweries.

Boston’s moved from the periphery into the heart of downtown, and then was displaced again thanks to the planned performing arts center.

The odd building at the corner of Smith and Edgeworth became Local ERIC GINSBURG Smith & Edge is the only bar in the LoFi neighborhood that’s open after midnight.

House Bar, a dive whose best quality was a skeeball machine and a deal for a free beer if you scored high enough. somethings even have their Friday night outfits picked. in the wall. Finished dark wood, metal tables jutting out from One night my girlfriend, sister and I the wall, mood lighting and a rather entrancing back bar give Enter Smith & Edge. rolled so well that we started offering the space a copper, glowing hue that suggest this is a place to After a drawn-out vacancy at the former Boston’s and Local our winnings to other patrons, unable to House digs, signs of life emerged as a cartoonish black & white relax rather than get rowdy. A friend tells me it reminds him keep up ourselves. mural flashed up onto the building’s long side wall.

Then, of Surf Club in Durham, but it calls to mind a cross section of That terribly named joint didn’t last earlier this month, the completely renovated space quietly so many cocktail bars that I can’t put my finger on the closest long, despite a relative boom in the corollary. opened its doors, injecting some energy shortly after baseball neighborhood. season’s end.

The cocktail menu is limited, at least for now, to six classics, With Local House’s closing, WesterInside, the only thing that makes Smith & Edge recognizable though Smith & Edge adds its own twist to several, including a wood again became the only place in the as the same space is the building’s shape and lack of windows negroni with gin, Campari and Cynar (rather than vermouth). area open after midnight — even when on the main walls, which give the bar a sense of privacy and Beers run from $3 Miller Lite to a $9 draft, but most are in the Joymongers is jamming on a Saturday exclusivity.

Floor-to-ceiling windows in the front and slits in middle. The back of the drink menu prices out specific liquors night, that place will clear out as if the back wall allow for some external light, but given the lack and brags a small wine collection, too. everyone inside is Cinderella racing the When my friends and I first showed up on a recent Friday of adjacent commercial properties, it’s basically an island in clock. Preyer and Crafted naturally seem around 8:30, we snacked on the pistachios put out in small the night. to quiet down earlier, and the lights go Owner Timothy Smith, who also runs Chakras and Table 16 dishes and commented that not many people seem aware of off at the latter before a lot of twentydowntown, redid the bar, extending it to wrap around a corner Smith & Edge yet, noting the slow business.

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But that changed around 10, as we You don’t have to ask if I liked the realized that couples and friends had bar; after all, I went twice in one night. trickled in and decided to stick around, But I do look forward to Smith & Edge posting up where a Golden Tee-type cultivating and honing its own cocktail golf game used to stand or at a Last menu, and hopefully following through Supper-style on plans to add table at the back a fire pit or two Visit Smith & Edge Tuesdayof the room. outside.

Sunday at 422 N. Edgeworth St. There were still I can afford the plenty of open cover at Boston’s — (GSO) or find it on Facebook @ low tables along smithandedgegso. now in “Uptown” the sidewall, on the east side but there was — these days, and a jovial mood I’m certainly glad permeating the place. it’s still around. I miss the skeeball and After a while we did what used to drink specials at Local House Bar once be impossible in this area and walked in a while, especially when an out-ofto another bar. But when Joymongers town friend who got drunk there with closed promptly at midnight and we me asks after it. And while I still go to instinctually knew we weren’t done yet, Westerwood now and then, I’m glad we walked back. there’s another place open late, another By then Smith & Edge had quieted spot with a liquor license, somewhere I down some. A musician and her friend can momentarily forget my surroundsmoked cigs on the small front step, ings and try something new. and another artist sat at the bar with his girlfriend. Tim Smith, who’d greeted us earlier in the night before returning to a corner of the bar, had saddled up with a lawyer who lives nearby, and they snacked on pistachios lost in their own conversation until I interrupted.

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CULTURE The life of an artist: Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit comes to Reynolda House

by Spencer KM Brown

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rom walls filled with early abstract watercolors to displays of handmade clothes O’Keeffe designed and wore, the gallery at Reynolda House has brought the inner mind and life of the artist into the public’s consciousness.

“It suddenly became more than just the art,” curator Allison Slaby said. “When I spoke with Wanda Corn, she quickly saw that O’Keeffe was more than just her art, she was living and breathing the very art she made. Her life was formed around it. She, quite literally, lived what she created.”

The exhibit became a tribute and homage to the life of the artist. Expanding from the main gallery and into several rooms of the historic Reynolda House, the Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern exhibit has displaced several staff from their offices to make room for it. Since the exhibit opened in early August, the staff and business side of the museum were forced to make a few changes, including Slaby, whose office now temporarily resides in the private kitchen of the historic Reynolda Museum.

“This exhibit has been just awe-ing,” Slaby said in her office. “My office is actually on the upper level, but because of the size of the exhibit, we needed make as much room as we could. And I’m starting to like this new set-up.”

Since Brooklyn Museum curator Wanda Corn first conceived of the O’Keeffe exhibit, Reynolda House quickly became involved.

“Wanda Corn initially contacted us to use our original O’Keeffe [painting], ‘Pool in the Woods,’” Slaby said. “And in exchange for that, we managed to bring the exhibit to Winston-Salem. It’s been amazing to be a part of this. We have seen some of the highest attendance numbers ever since the opening. We feel honored to be able to bring this to our community.”

The Georgia O’Keeffe Living Modern exhibit spans five rooms of Reynolda.

The main gallery walks guests through O’Keeffe’s humble, tenuous beginnings to the pinnacle of her career as an artist, designer and sculptor. Going beyond the initial ideas of building a gallery of O’Keeffe’s artwork alone, a new theme developed as curators teamed up and combed through the artist’s work.

Moving about the exhibit, the arc of O’Keeffe’s long career is apparent. The struggle of being one of the first promi-

Georgia O’Keeffe, circa 1920–22.

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overshadowed by photographs and other paintings at its original exhibit in 1923, Pool in the Woods marked O’Keeffe as a powerful new artist, and remains an integral feature in her life’s work, according to critics.

“Guests have truly been changed after seeing the exhibit,” Slaby said.

“From pure ecstasy to bursting into tears, it’s shows us the power of art, the power of the artist in our world.”

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nent female artists bursts forth from and little flowers blooming. each display, from every photograph.

Pool in the Woods, Lake George, the One moment representative of O’Keefe painting in Reynolda’s permaO’Keeffe coming into her in New York nent collection, is one of the artist’s art world can be seen in her massive lesser known works. The painting work “Manhattan.” For an exhibition merges O’Keeffe’s famous technique of at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932, blending the difficult and challenging O’Keeffe was among 60 contemporary line of the abstract with realism. Pool in artists commisthe Woods features sioned to create The Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit runs until what O’Keeffe called art for a public the “dash and go” Nov. 19. For tickets and information, mural. O’Keeffe’s visit reynoldahouse.org. technique that contribution she learned as an was a triptych of understudy to Wilmodern New York City. In doing so, she liam Merritt Chase. The short, dashing claimed a subject that had long been bursts of color and brush strokes were the stomping ground of male artists. a style O’Keeffe would master and use “Manhattan” shows a jaggedly abstract throughout her career. The dark, heavy vision of a cityscape, moving from dark use of color throbs with emotion and browns and blues on the edges to a a swelling effect the pulses forth from center bursting with soft reds, mauves the canvas. Though the painting was

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CULTURE Black Mama Monologues explores intergenerational relationships

By Lauren Barber

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n the barebones stage, two dozen black women and girls stood shoulder-to-shoulder, moments away from re-opening vulnerable memories as a constellation of storytellers.

Scrapmettle Entertainment Group debuted its sixth edition of the Black Mama Monologues at the Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center in Greensboro’s Smith Homes area on Oct. 19.

Local actors — some experienced and others new to the stage — recounted memories of their own girlhoods and motherhoods in the monologues fellow cast members performed.

The community-sourced nature of the material manifests in a unique production each year, but as 53-year-old Angela Williams Tripp, chief of research and development at Scrapmettle, explained during the opening act, “Black Mamas covers all black mamas: the good ones, the bad ones, the ones in between, the bougie and the ghetto — all of them.”

While several documented kind mothers soothing the confusion and undue embarrassments of girls’ pubescence, other scenes showcased emotionally abusive mothers who became the primary drivers of their daughters’ shame.

In her script for “Mirrors,” Karin Johnson, 37, wrote about her experience as an unwanted child, an artifact of her mother’s rape. Bennett College senior Ameria Webster, 22, portrayed Johnson’s stories.

“It took me a while to do the stories because I couldn’t relate at first,” Webster said. “I had to do my character analysis and try to make it my own.”

Johnson said Webster did her stories justice.

The piece began as Johnson’s childhood self — portrayed by her daughter, Michaela — emerged from one of three elementary wooden frames representing mirrors to retell a memory from age 7. She approached her mother with caution in a bathroom smelling of harsh hair chemicals.

“Mommy, do you think I could get a perm?” she asked.

“No.” “Mommy, do you think I’m pretty?”

Her mother scanned her body, suggesting that she would probably look better when she grew older. She sent the girl to fetch cigarettes, a symbol John-

son always places in pieces she writes about her chain-smoking mother.

Webster, as adult Johnson, emerged from her frame, saying, “Despite being your mirror image, I hide myself under makeup and big hair pieces because I’m scared that others can look at me and be able to tell I didn’t come from any act of love but the opposite.”

“Regardless of how I was conceived, I’m a part of you,” Webster proclaimed. “Did you ever even try to love me? Did you?”

In stark contrast, Kevita Coleman, a local dance teacher, gave an uplifting performance, an ode to the perfect mother, named Pecan Pie. A warmhearted pillar of her community, Pecan Pie collected nuts from neighborhood trees and made perfect pies every year.

“I think it’s very important to show that some of us have some not-so-great mamas and Scrapmettle Entertainment Group performs Black Mama Monologues LAUREN BARBER some of us have mamas that at the Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center in Greensboro. couldn’t do any wrong anywhere ever in life,” said Colebiggest takeaway from Black Mama Monologues may be for man, 31. “A lot of times you don’t really hear the backstory… participants. and it’s important to show, well, they did this bad thing but Scrapmettle’s chief of ideas and operations Kerri Mubaarak, they always made sure we had everything we needed to sur48, said sharing stories with each other is always a therapeutic vive. They’re complex people.” process.

Vignettes such as those Tripp wrote about her crack-ad“It makes people feel like what they come with has some dicted mother were indicative of those ironies. They largely kind of value,” she said. elicited laughter and respect for an Johnson, for one, found catharsis in unapologetic woman who bowed the writing process. down to no one. Heavier stories, “For me, it was the first time I Learn more about Scrapmettle though, ranged from childhood started dealing with the issues I had Entertainment Group and its sexual abuse to the narrative of a with my mother who wasn’t affecupcoming performances at scrapHaitian immigrant all but enslaved as tionate and didn’t want me,” Johnson mettle.net. a house servant in 1963 America. said. “That helped me to acknowlLike the actors and their stories, edge what happened to me and start transitional music spanned decades. the healing process. That’s why I Lil Wayne’s “Mirror on the Wall” wrote ‘Mirrors’ — I was able to touch didn’t seem out of place 20 minutes on me as my mother, me as I am now after the O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money.” A handful of dance and me as a child.” numbers served as welcome breaks from monologues, offerJohnson’s 16-year-old daughter said working on Black Mama ing the audience a pause from a somewhat lengthy emotional Monologues together sparked conversations about their relarollercoaster. tionship off-stage.

In a particularly affecting performance, Taajia McLaughlin, “Some stuff I didn’t understand,” said Michaela Johnson, a 16, danced around four women sitting on black crates who Scrapmettle veteran of more than 11 years herself, “but since I embodied Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches was in the play watching the other stories I started to underfrom Nina Simone’s “Four Women,” in which Simone sings stand why my mom does some of the stuff that she do and from the first-person perspectives of four women of color. why she acts the way she acts.”

Despite how compelling the pieces are for audiences, the

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