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February 22-28, 2018

NCDOT RE-SCHEDULED PUBLIC MEETING ON FEB. 27 REGARDING THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF ARCHDALE ROAD (S.R. 1577 / S.R. 1004) FROM ROBBINS COUNTRY ROAD (S.R. 1567) TO NORTH MAIN STREET (S.R. 1009) IN RANDOLPH AND GUILFORD COUNTIES STIP PROJECT NO. U-3400

The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes widening Archdale Road (S.R. 1577 / S.R. 1004) from Robbins Country Road (S.R. 1567) to North Main Street (S.R. 1009) from existing three and two lanes to three lanes with a center turn lane in Archdale.

A public meeting will be held at Open Door Baptist Church located at 135 W White Drive on Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather public input on the proposed design. Maps of the study area, environmental features and proposed typical sections will be available on the project website for public review and comment.

The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or later by March 20, 2018. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation.

Project maps are available online at: http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/ For additional information contact Jeffrey L. Teague, PE,NCDOT Division 8 Project Manager by phone: (910) 944-2344 or via email at jlteague@ncdot.gov; or by mail: 902 N Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen, NC 28315.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 7076069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1.800.233.6315

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Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1.800.233.6315

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Claire Holley, and back again The last time films,” she continues, “and when you have I spoke to Claire other people weighing in like a director or Holley it was 15 an editor, it kind of humbles you and you years ago; I was just learn to be a little more flexible.” writing for a very I first caught her onstage with Bruce small monthly Piephoff at the old Blind Tiger. On her magazine and, return visit this week she’ll be at Muddy because I had no Creek Music Hall, leaning heavily on the

by Brian Clarey office, or even a tunes from Sanctuary, her 1999 debut for reliable computer at the time, we met for Yep Roc Records that established her the interview at the Greensboro Central place in the North Carolina canon.

Library.

Between this show and a stop in Cary, She and her husband were thinking of she hopes to gather her people in support leaving North Carolina at the time — they of a re-release of Sanctuary, pegged for its would eventually move to Los Angeles, 20th anniversary next year. There’s a Kickwhere her career as starter and everything. a singer/songwriter “My own writing veered from the path style hasn’t changed Claire Holley plays Muddy of Americana and much in the last 20 Creek Café on Sunday at 2 traditional Southern years,” she says. “I p.m. with Martha Bassett music she had been think I’m a little better at talking to the bad playing since her in support. Find out more voices in my head that childhood in Jackson, at claireholley.com. tell me: ‘This song is Miss. bad,’ or, ‘You’re not “I get a little tired of gonna finish this.’ all the billboards and “I think that as you get older,” she the onslaught of advertising,” she says, continues, “you learn to talk back to those “but I like that it’s a place where people voices and just realize, You know what? I collaborate. And there’s this wild-card asjust have to write the next song and maybe pect of living out here that you just don’t it will be good and maybe it will be bad, but know what’s gonna come down the pipe I just have to do it.” on a given day.

“I’ve gotten to write songs for small

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I think that first and foremost the people should know what’s going on. Body-worn cameras were given to the police to protect the citizens from injustice and to protect the police from frivolous accusations. If the people can’t see it, then it’s meaningless.

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February 22-28, 2018

CITY LIFE Feb. 22 - 28

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Artist Talk and panel discussion for Particle Falls light installation @ Milton Rhodes Arts Center (W-S), 4:30 p.m.

Gather for refreshments in the Salem College Student Center before heading to the Huber Theater at 7 p.m. for a panel discussion focused on the perspectives of black artists and expression of racial identity. Panelists include local artists, filmmakers, musicians and a student poet. Find the event on Facebook.

Four pieces by UNC School of the Arts students wend between ballet and contemporary dance: Sir Frederick Ashton’s ballet “Symphonic Variations”; “Happy Little Things” by Aszure Barton; “Of the Earth Far Below” by Doug Varone; and Larry Keigwin’s eye-popping “Kingdom.” Learn more at uncsa.edu.

NC Comedy Festival @ various locations (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Mama, Hyacinth, Foxture @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

The six-day comedy festival stacks three Greensboro stages — at the Crown, Community Theatre of Greensboro’s Starr Theater and its home base, the Idiot Box, located underneath Geeksboro — with stand-up, sketch and improv through the weekend. Thursday night’s slate includes headliner Eddie Pepitone, sketch troupe Fan Club and dozens more performers. Learn more at nccomedyfestival.com.

Latinx Winston-Salem rock band Mama joins Durham’s Hyacinth and hometown hero Foxture on a loaded bill at the arcade/bar/idea factory. Find the event on Facebook.

Learn more about the kinetic light sculpture that will be adorning the Stevens Center for the next few weeks.

Panelists include David Finn, chair of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Public Art Commission, June Blotnick of Clean Air Carolina, Stephanie Dance-Barnes from Winston-Salem State University and Wendell Hardin from the city of Winston-Salem. There’s backstory at cleanaircarolina.org/particlefallsnc.

Caleb Caudle @ SECCA (W-S), 5 p.m.

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Art in Black Spaces panel @ Salem College Student Center (W-S), 6 p.m.

Winter Dance Concert @ Stevens Center (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Caleb Caudle comes home for a release of his new record, Crushed Coins, coinciding with SECCA’s regular concert series. Find tickets of you can at secca.org.

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GC Live! Extravaganza @ Greensboro College, 7:30 p.m.

Riff Raff @ Caldcleugh Arts Center (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

MerleFest on the Road @ Van Dyke Performance Space (GSO), 8 p.m.

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Next to Normal @ High Point Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY

Greensboro Swarm vs. Long Island Nets @ the Fieldhouse at Greensboro Coliseum, 2 p.m.

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The latest in the Scrapmettle series, this modern gangster drama is Laurence Fishburne’s first play. Learn more at scrapmettle.net.

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The Greensboro College Jazz Ensemble puts on a free set at the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building. Learn more at greensboro.edu.

A collaboration between the Blue Ridge Music Center, Triad Acoustic Stage, ArtsGreensboro and the venerable bluegrass festival promotes the legacy of Doc Watson with sets by the Way Down Wanderers, the Barefoot Movement and Andy May. Blueridgemusiccenter.org has more.

SATURDAY

Black Panther reaction panel @ Geeksboro (GSO), 3 p.m.

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Manic depression lurks beneath the portrait of a typical American family in Next to Normal, winner of four Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. High Point Community Theatre takes on the risky and powerful performance through the weekend. Find the event on Facebook.

A “spoiler-filled, no-holds-barred” reaction to Marvel’s latest blockbuster, the roundtable includes comics fans, writers and a cosplayer. Learn more at geeksboro.com.

The Swarm (13-24) holds third place in the Southeast Division, while the Long Island squad (20-16) is third in the Atlantic. Find out more at greensborocoliseum.com.

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Riddleberger redux

by Jordan Green It’s tough out there for Trump supporters trying to date. I mean, what are the odds that someone who backs a president with 42.1 percent approval rating will be able to find a compatible partner?

The Trump.Dating site is here to help.

“Dating in 2018 is more of a challenge than ever before, thanks in part to today’s polarizing political landscape,” the site notes. “While searching for a potential partner on other dating sites, it’s not uncommon to see messages like ‘No Trump supporters’ or ‘proud liberal.’ We’re wrecking the dating game and giving like-minded Americans a chance to meet without the awkwardness that comes with the first conversation about politics. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to already know your date roots for the same team?”

It’s only fitting that the poster couple for the self-described “specialized dating site” administered by Friends Worldwide is Barrett and Jodi Riddleberger, who helped found the tea party-inspired Conservatives for Guilford County political action committee, or C4GC. Among the many candidates C4GC helped elect was US Rep. Mark Walker, formerly as associate pastor at Lawndale Baptist Church, where members of the PAC met.

C4GC pioneered at a local level in Guilford County the kind of divisive intraparty bloodletting in 2010 that Trump took national with his hostile takeover of the GOP in 2016. A photo of Barrett wearing a backwards red “Trump” hat and Jodi wearing a pink “Make America Great Again” headpiece occupies a prominent place at the SCREENGRAB and Jodi top of the page. (Since Tuesday morn- Barrett Riddleberger ing, the photo of the Riddlebergers has been removed from the dating site.)

Like the president they love, the Riddlebergers never let personal embarrassments dampen the righteous tenor of their politics.

Likewise, the Riddlebergers provided a textbook example of how political ambitions and paranoia can result in self-inflicted wounds that Trump would probably appreciate.

When the Riddlebergers’ friend, Jeff Hyde, ran for chairman of the Guilford County GOP in 2011, concerned associates worried that his candidacy would be torpedoed by revelations about Barrett Riddleberger’s past conviction of indecent liberties with a child, stemming from a videotape of him having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 25. Most journalists would have hesitated to break the story considering that Barrett Riddleberger was a private citizen and not running for office himself. They didn’t have to: Convinced that Greensboro City Councilwoman (now mayor) Nancy Vaughan had unearthed Barrett’s conviction and passed it on to “GOP establishment friends” so they could leak it to the media and torpedo Hyde’s candidacy, Jodi preemptively referenced the “incident” on Facebook. The unfounded and disputed allegation against Vaughan forced the episode into the public.

Barrett Riddleberger declined to comment for this story.

Hyde, for his part, dealt with the fallout by casting aspersions against imagined persecutors, writing: “I believe in the ‘transformative power’ of Jesus Christ. NonChristians do not seem to understand this power.”

With the photo of the Riddlebergers as the most prominently placed image on the site, Trump Dating also portrays two other couples, both white and heterosexual.

Newsweek has identified the second photo as portraying Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, a former chief of staff of the US Air Force and currently dean of the Bush School of Governance and Public Services.

Unfortunately, the invitation to “make dating great again” with a “pro-Trump match” isn’t extended to everyone. The registration options for the site are limited to “straight man” and “straight woman.” Too bad for Peter Boykin, founder of Gays for Trump and organizer of the March 4 “March4Trump” in Washington.

That must be lonely.

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Black Panther with black people

by Brian Clarey

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Black Panther is more than a movie. It’s a movement.

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“It’s the blackest thing ever,” Lamar Gibson says. “You must go immediately.”

It’s Monday, so our tickets will be rolled into the record-setting numbers that Black Panther set on this opening weekend, a big-budget action flick that — finally! — treats black folks with some respect.

Gibson is the second person in the last 24 hours to have expressed this sentiment to me, the other being one of the brothers of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity after their scholarship music competition.

“We all went together last night,” he told me. All 48 of them.

Gibson says he went yesterday and Irving Allen has already seen it twice, but still they bounce as we approach the theater in the midafternoon. And though I’m a legit Black Panther fan since the 1980s, when he was an auxiliary member of the Fantastic Four, I know this one isn’t about me — somewhere between Black Twitter, where I sometimes lurk but do not comment, and “Black Dynamite,” which I enjoy but find it best never to talk about, ever.

The Black Panther movie has become a movement, and not just because it gets it right. It’s a flexing of economic muscle by the black community, both a statement and warning in these trying times, and a cultural touchstone that Gibson has likened, only somewhat jokingly, to the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.

“It’s just the blackest thing ever,” he says again.

They try to explain it to me afterwards: The clothes, the fighting styles, the funky streets of the city, the Wakanda handshake, the family drama, the token white guys — all of it, they assured me, is for black people to love. That’s what resonated with my friends, so powerfully I could feel it in the theater, in the dark.

“I can even identify with the villain,” Allen says. “You were kinda rooting for him — he had a good point.”

In Wakanda, all viewpoints are treated with respect.

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NEWS

Democratic primary will determine District A representation

by Jordan Green The Democratic primary for District A on the Forsyth County Commission will decide two of the seven seats on the county board. In 2010, one of the winners was determined by only three votes.

Voters in Forsyth County’s urban District A will, for all intents and purposes, choose their representation on the county’s legislative body for the next four years during the Democratic primary on May 8.

The multi-seat district with 78,073 registered voters — a third of the county’s electorate — sends two members to the seven-member Forsyth County Commission. With registered Democrats comprising 61.3 percent of the electorate, the two top finishers in the Democratic primary are virtually guaranteed seats on the commission.

Three candidates have filed so far for District A, which is roughly bounded

by Winston-Salem’s eastern boundary and by Reynolda Road on the north side and Peters Creek Parkway on the south side. The contestants include Fleming El-Amin, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Walter Marshall last year; nonprofit leader Tony Lewis Burton III, who serves as executive director of the Northwest Child Development Centers; and Tonya McDaniel, a protégé of the late Winston-Salem politician Earline Parmon.

Everette Witherspoon, a two-term incumbent, is expected to file for reelection, but had not done so by press time. The voicemail for Witherspoon’s listed number on the county commission website was full, and he could not be reached for comment.

The District A election, along with one out of four District 4 seats, falls on a midterm primary, typically one of the lowest turnouts in the election calendar.

The 2014 primary, which saw the reelection of Marshall and Witherspoon, drew only 14.8 percent of registered voters.

Low turnout means that those who show up at the polls wield an outsized influence, and the results can be razor thin.

In the 2010 primary, then-challenger Witherspoon unseated incumbent Beaufort Bailey by only three votes.

The legacy of the district’s former representatives weighs heavily on the race. El-Amin said Mazie Woodruff, the first black person to serve on the county commission, encouraged him to run for a seat several years ago. El-Amin

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would go on to serve as a chairman of the Forsyth County Democratic Party and Democratic member of the county board of elections. He said both he and Marshall admired Woodruff, and ElAmin promised Marshall he would not run against him. Before he died, in early 2017, El-Amin said Marshall gave him his backing. El-Amin said his proudest accomplishment to date is persuading his fellow commissioners to rename the county social services building after Marshall.

As the goddaughter of the late Earline Parmon, McDaniel holds a connection to a Winston-Salem Democratic leader easily as revered as Woodruff. McDaniel managed Parmon’s successful 2012 campaign for state Senate. McDaniel currently serves as third vice-chair of the Forsyth County Democratic Party and second vice-chair of the Winston-Salem branch NAACP. Although McDaniel has plenty of experience managing other people’s campaigns, she said one moment earlier this year crystallized her decision “to get off the sidelines” and make her first run for elective office. During the Women’s March at Corpening Plaza in downtown Winston-Salem on Jan. 20, an organizer handed McDaniel a sign bearing the likeness of legendary civil rights organizer Fannie Lou Hamer that said, “Tired of being sick and tired.”

Burton points to his accomplishments as the basis for his qualification to serve in District A. He said his experience as a schoolteacher, group-home administrator, along with working with ex-offenders in a re-entry program and now executive director of a nonprofit that provides childcare in Forsyth, Stokes and Davie counties, prepares him to serve in com-

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munity government. “[The motivational speaker] Zig Ziglar says, ‘Success equals opportunity plus preparation,’” Burton said.

“When opportunity and preparation come together, here’s the opportunity.

The preparation happened in the last 24 years for me.”

In interviews, all three candidates highlighted economic growth and equity in the majority black district which encompasses downtown Winston-Salem.

The Northwest Child Development Centers, led by Burton, shifted its downtown presence from North Poplar Street in the Theater District to East 7th Street, adjacent to the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. It’s a location that gives Burton a unique vantage point to observe the spectacular growth on the eastern flank of downtown.

Burton argued that the county government needs to promote development in the area linking downtown to WinstonSalem State University.

“I think we need some type of hotel, with the expansion of Winston-Salem State University and with the expansion of the Innovation Quarter,” Burton said.

“I think that would be a great location for a hotel near Highway 52. I think we can bring in some gas stations and convenience stores, too.” Burton also said he would work with Forsyth Tech to prepare residents to take advantage of opportunities in the Innovation Quarter.

El-Amin highlighted the county’s economic-development group, which provides small-business loans through a partnership with the Experiment in SelfReliance. He also said he’s asked staff for an audit of all development in the highpoverty areas of Winston-Salem, which

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fall within District A, so that residents can take stock of options for revitalization.

All three candidates also expressed concern about the last two tax revaluations since the onset of the 2009 recession, which have depreciated property values in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. McDaniel has experienced the issue firsthand. Her grandmother owned a house on Pleasant Street that she willed to the family, but McDaniel said they can’t sell it for an adequate price or refinance it because the value is so low. El-Amin is sympathetic.

“If you look at the greatest depreciation, it’s in the African-American community,” he said. “When you have property handed down from one generation to the next, it’s the main asset they have.” El-Amin said he arranged for Tax Assessor John Burgiss to answer residents’ questions during a community meeting at the Enterprise Center last year. Many residents didn’t know they could request a walk-through by county tax assessors if they disagree with their valuations. Some availed themselves of the opportunity, and got their values increased.

The two District A representatives have provided the most critical voices on the county commission when it comes to medical care in the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center, which is funded by the county. El-Amin and Witherspoon were the only members to vote against renewing Correct Care Solutions’ contract for medical services in the jail after two inmates died in May 2017.

McDaniel said she could easily imagine one of her children being put at risk

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in the jail. “Going to jail shouldn’t be a death sentence,” she said. “Some of these people are only being held until their court date.”

El-Amin said he was disappointed that Baptist Hospital declined an invitation to take over medical services in the jail because the cost of liability insurance was too high. After visiting the jail, El-Amin said he has become concerned that the facility is not adequately staffed to do adequate welfare checks on the inmates, and inmates have told him they experience favoritism when they signal that they need to talk to staff. The commissioner also said that at his prodding the county manager asked the department of public health to conduct a “quality assessment” of medical services in the jail to identify areas for improvement.

Burton agreed that medical services in the jail need to be closely monitored.

“We need to do an evaluation of what’s happening there, and maybe put that back out to bid,” Burton said. “I have not had the opportunity to see any type of evaluation that was done with

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District A covers most of Winston-Salem.

regards to the service providers.”

The three candidates for District A are acutely aware of the balance of power on the county commission. Getting a majority vote on anything requires that the two Democrats in District A forge a coalition with either the moderates — Republican Martin and Democratic at-large Commissioner Ted Kaplan — or the three conservative Republicans.

“The key thing is you have to be willing to stand on principle coupled with compromise on those things that you want to move forward,” El-Amin said.

“The principle comes first so that your counterparts know where you stand.”

El-Amin said sometimes he’s found himself making common cause with the conservative Republican faction. As an example, he mentioned a resident near Kernersville who complained about noise from a nearby agribusiness. After visiting the location, El-Amin concluded that the noise was negligible, and it was important to preserve agriculture. The first commissioner who supported his position was Richard Linville, a rural conservative Republican.

McDaniel said she appreciates Martin’s expertise on public education, which is partially financed by the county, and that he asks tough questions. She also said she would also reach out to the conservatives, specifically mentioning Commissioner Gloria Whisenhunt.

“We need to be having conversations with them,” she said. “I would be saying, ‘Gloria, is that fair? Is that equitable?’ If we’re not there having those conversations, we don’t matter.”

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City council can’t talk about police video of downtown altercation

by Jordan Green City council members said they wanted a ruling allowing them to comment publicly before they reviewed police body-camera video so it wouldn’t look like they were demonstrating selective transparency just to back the police. But a judge turned down the request on the rationale that they must not care if they hadn’t already watched the video.

A Guilford County superior court judge ruled on Monday that city council members may not make public statements about footage from police bodycamera video capturing an incident in downtown Greensboro in which a young, black man has accused the police of harassment and racial profiling.

Zared Jones, a 29-year-old nursing assistant, filed a complaint last year alleging that members of the Greensboro Police Department’s downtown bike patrol surrounded him and three friends, all of whom are black, in front of Cheesecake’s by Alex on South Elm Street, and later harassed them after Jones was thrown out a bar on McGee Street, and that they escalated the tension, leading to arrests.

An internal investigation by the police department concluded that officers acted lawfully, rejecting Jones’ accusation that the arrests exhibited bias. Jones appealed the decision to the Greensboro Police Community Review Committee, a panel of citizens under the human relations commission. The committee has reviewed the police-body camera video, and the committee co-chairs have signed a letter with the committee’s determination as to whether they agree with the police findings. Allen Hunt, the city’s primary complaint officer, said the city sent the letter by certified mail to Jones’ attorney, Graham Holt, on Monday morning. Hunt said he is not allowed to disclose the panel’s finding.

Greensboro City Council has instructed its legal counsel to go to court and seek a waiver allowing them to comment publicly on the video. In the past, city council members have refrained from reviewing police body-camera video until after the police complaint review board completed its process. In addition to the police body-worn video, which is tightly controlled by state law, there is also video taken by a member of the public capturing the arrests on McGee Street that was posted on YouTube.

Councilwoman Michelle Kennedy told Triad City Beat that council members hoped to obtain an order from a judge

allowing them to comment publicly in place before they review the video.

“We felt strongly that we have an obligation to transparency,” Kennedy said.

“It doesn’t serve the public if we review something, but cannot speak about it.

For me, it’s important that we get that ruling before we view it so there’s no question about why we’re asking for the right to speak on it. If we were to watch a video and say, ‘It was very clear there was no evidence of misconduct,’ or, ‘It was very clear that there was evidence of misconduct,’ in order to represent the public we need to be able to say that we’re not making the request based on the content of a particular video. It’s not a slanted viewpoint based on, this looks good for the GPD, or this doesn’t look good for the GPD.” Superior Court Judge Susan Bray didn’t see it that way.

“I’m not going to entertain that motion if they haven’t even watched the video,” Bray said on Monday. Rising from the bench as attorneys attempted to persuade her to reconsider, Bray continued: “It wasn’t a priority for them.

I think that’s ridiculous.”

Assistant City Attorney Rosetta Davidson, who represented the city, told Bray: “They absolutely want to watch it. It’s not a question of ‘Do we watch it?’; it’s a question of, ‘If we watch it, can we talk about it?’ They want clarification from the court.”

Mayor Nancy Vaughan said in a text on Wednesday that she is disappointed in Judge Bray’s ruling.

“We will continue to work with the legislature, especially our delegation, to help them understand the practical implications of this law and how it could be changed without sacrificing an individual’s right to privacy,” Vaughan said.

“I think we all believed that body-worn cameras would allow for greater transparency and accountability.”

Vaughan added that after watching video of a police encounter with Jose Charles, a 15-year-old who was arrested across the street from Center City Park in July 2016, “there were many things that I wish I could have said to set the record straight.” She said, “I am concerned that we are going to find ourselves in a similar position. Again, it puts the city council in a very difficult situation to be unable to comment on something that is so important to the people in our city.”

Graham Holt, the attorney who rep-

Footage of a police encounter with four young, black men was destroyed before one of them requested it.

resents Zared Jones and Clifton Ruffin — who was part of the group that was allegedly harassed by the police — filed two identical motions asking the court to release the video to his clients for preservation. The city also filed a motion asking for whatever the court was willing to provide to Holt’s clients. Judge Bray turned down all three.

Amiel Rossabi, a private attorney argued on behalf of the 10 officers, including Sgt. Steven Kory Flowers and Officer Samuel Alvarez, who are subject to the complaint. Rossabi said he is representing the individual officers free of charge and is not working through the Greensboro Police Officers Association.

While Rossabi argued for the officers, Andrea Harrell and Polly Sizemore from the Greensboro Police Attorney’s office appeared in case the judge had questions for them, but Bray didn’t ask them to speak.

“I understand the city council members’ position that they should be able to say, ‘I saw this, I saw that,’ but as far as the police officers are concerned this matter is over,” Rossabi said.

“I know there’s a benefit for the city council to say, ‘The police did everything right,’ but some people will never believe it, so really there’s no benefit to releasing it,” he added, as members of the progressive group Democracy Greensboro sat in the court chambers.

Previously, Judge Bray ordered the limited release of police body-camera video taken at 315 S. Elm St., the address for Cheesecakes by Alex, so it could be reviewed by the police community review board. The police have said the footage was erased.

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as soon as they arrived down there,” Holt said in an interview after the hearing. “It would show them being interrogated for no reason and being asked, ‘What are you doing down here?’”

Harrell told Triad City Beat that since no arrests took place in front of Cheesecakes by Alex, the footage was classified as “citizen contact-noncriminal.” Under state law, she said, such footage is required to be preserved for three months but the Greensboro Police Department keeps it for nine months. If the incident is subject to a complaint, Harrell said the video could be reclassified. In the case of the 315 S. Elm St. video, Harrell said the system had automatically deleted it before Holt requested it in September 2017.

While Holt said that his primary interest is in preserving the remaining police body-camera video for his clients, he would also like to see it released to the public. But since Judge Bray turned down his motions outright, he didn’t have an opportunity to argue for wider release.

“I think that first and foremost the people should know what’s going on,” Holt said. “Body-worn cameras were given to the police to protect the citizens from injustice and to protect the police from frivolous accusations. If the people can’t see it, then it’s meaningless.”

Davidson told Holt that once she briefs City Attorney Tom Carruthers on the order, she anticipates that city council will hold a special closed session to discuss next steps. City council could go ahead and watch the video, and then file a motion at a later date seeking permission for members to speak publicly on the video, she said.

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Students lead on gun reform where adults have failed

Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks.

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We must do something. Mental health and ideological motivation, including white supremacy and Islamic extremism, don’t measure up as primary causal factors.

Guns are the problem. Specifically, the problem is the ease with which young men can access high-powered firearms and carry them into places where large numbers of people congregate.

There is no easy prescription for gun reform, no one technical fix. And people need to own up to this hard reckoning: Any progress will be forged from compromise that will be difficult for both the left and the right to swallow.

Although the two are intertwined, guns run a close second to race as a fundamental issue that divides the country, sometimes it seems beyond the hope of reconciliation.

So staunchly do far-right Americans defend the Second Amendment that — don’t forget — patriot militias were prepared to launch an insurrection after the 2016 election based on their belief that Hillary Clinton was planning to confiscate their guns.

The United States is split between dueling moral visions on guns. There’s not room here to quote adequately, so do yourself a favor and look up conservative columnist Ross Douthat’s brilliant think piece, “No country for young men with AR-15s,” in the New York Times’ Sunday Review. To briefly quote Douthat’s most salient insight: “The anti-gun moral vision regards America’s relationship to gun ownership as a kind of collective moral madness, a love affair with violence, a sickness unto death…. The pro-gun moral vision, meanwhile, links arms and the citizen, treating selfdefense as an essential civic good, a means of maintaining Americans as free people rather than prisoners (or wards) of the state.”

It’s just an idea, but it seems workable. Douthat notes that “alienated, isolated young men” are particularly vulnerable to the sick fetishization of guns and violence. He proposes that the right to owns guns, like running for president, be only bestowed with certain age and maturity. And it could be done through a graduated system: 18-year-olds would be allowed to own hunting rifles, revolvers would be legal at the age of 21 and semi-automatic weapons at 25.

Maybe it’s not the perfect solution, but as Emma Gonzalez says, “It’s time to start doing something.”

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“All these people should be at home grieving, but instead we are up here standing together because if all our government and presiby Jordan Green dent can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it’s time for victims to be the change that we need to seek,” senior Emma Gonzalez said during a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Feb. 17.

“Our neighbors will not have to go through other schoolshooter drills when we have had our say with the government,” Gonzalez continued. “And maybe the adults have gotten used to saying, ‘It is what it is,’ but if us students have learned anything, it’s that if you don’t study you will fail, and in this case if you actively do nothing, people will continually end up dead, so it’s time to start doing something.”

As her classmates chanted, “Shame on you,” Gonzalez lit into a political establishment corrupted by a flood of campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association.

“The people in the government who are voted into office are lying to us, and us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call BS,” Gonzalez said. “Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say that tougher gun laws do not prevent violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS.” It has become trite to call elected officials cowardly, incompetent and weak. And while all those adjectives apply, taking shots at political opponents seems like part of the pattern of polarization and paralysis. So, let’s just take a moment to lift up heroes. They are, of course, the students who decided to organize and fight back instead of holding another candlelight vigil, who finally shamed the GOP’s constant admonitions after every massacre that it’s too soon for a debate about gun control with the simple retort: No, it was too late.

As one of the adults, I’ve come to the shameful conclusion that I have become part of the problem. When the news of the massacre broke on Feb. 14, I paid hardly any attention to the details — the death toll, the location, the gunman’s biographical sketch. The schools, churches, movie theaters that provide the setting have become an almost interchangeable litany of gore. I had succumbed to a fatalism born of the factual evidence but deficient in the most necessary element of human spirit — a hope sustained by the conviction that society is capable of change.

The evidence suggests that the United States is a nation that does not care if its children are slaughtered. Nothing will be done about this, I thought, and as certain as clockwork more massacres will predictably follow.

Those insights are not wrong, but if that’s the end of the story, then such sentiments easily drift into a kind of indifference that can only be described as evil.

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tion and sheer rubism has reached across the Atlantic Ocean.

In Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s indictment issued last week — the one that stained 13 Russian nationals and three companies with the mark of conspirators, if not the White House inner circle — North Carolina was called out as a target for paid conspirators in hopes of swaying the election towards Donald Trump in this crucial swing state.

The purpose of propaganda is not necessarily to get the hooples to believe a certain thing, but to make them unsure of what is actually true, allowing them to cling to whatever “facts” they can find that fill the narratives in which they want to believe. Projection.

Gaslighting. Call it what you will. But this is established fact: In August 2016, a Russian Twitter bot claiming to represent Republicans in Tennessee, reported that voter-fraud invesIn the end, we did tigations had begun in North Carolina. This exactly what the was a false report, Russians wanted but it was retweeted enough by the site’s us to. Like a bunch 100,000-plus followers of hayseeds, we to spread virally. Not cited in the indictment fell for it. is that Pat McCrory used these claims as justification not to concede his own election, which he lost to Roy Cooper that night.

Russian operatives helped organize a “Charlotte Against Trump” rally that attracted more than 100 people in November 2016.

Not in the indictment but reported by BuzzFeed, the Russian Internet Research Agency hired activists to speak in Charlotte in the days following the policeshooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in that city in September 2016, when the streets were filled with demonstrators.

This doesn’t even take into account the savage sharing campaigns, filled with factual inaccuracies and perpetrated by morons, to which we were all subject on our social-media feeds around election time. But when the bots are American, we don’t call it an act of war.

North Carolina voters fell for it: Trump took the state by 3.7 percentage points, truth be damned.

In the end, we did exactly what the Russians — and the Republicans — wanted us to. Like a bunch of hayseeds, we fell for it.

And some of us are falling still.

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CULTURE Chef Samir carries the tastes of Egypt to American palates

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t Chef Samir’s Egyptian Treasures, a serene landscape painting of sailboats on the Nile adorns a back wall while a banner featuring colorful drawings of Egyptian royalty, gods and hieroglyphics winds its way around the restaurants walls, mirroring images found on the thick vinyl table-covers made to look like papyrus. Magnificent, gaudy chandeliers with crystals and gold hang from above; Egyptian music fills the air. My friend Moriah, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Egypt, recognizes some of the music from car rides with her baba.

Chef Samir Shaltout opened his brickand-mortar on the east side of Greensboro nearly six years ago, shortly after moving from New Jersey — he came to the United States from Cairo in 1990, and brought his family recipes with him.

“This is all from my mom,” Shaltout said. “The tastes from home are still in my mouth and I try to bring it out of memory to share it with Americans.”

He brought his country’s history to share, too. Intricate designs throughout the restaurant allude to the architecture of mosques and framed photographs of Egyptian temples and statues, like the falcon god Horus in the courtyard of Edfu Temple, adorn walls painted the vibrant colors they once wore but which the centuries have washed away. Mustafa Kamil, an Egyptian lawyer, journalist and nationalist remembered for his fervent advocacy for Egyptian independence from Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, watched over our particular booth.

“The images of things like the pyramids would be here for tourists, but this is simultaneously authentic because a lot of places my family takes me and their other guests to look like this in wealthier tourist areas, but this is not what their everyday restaurant looks like,” she said.

The food, however, is deeply authentic.

“This is exactly the stuff I grew up eating and I don’t think people always understand that,” she said. “This feels like home to me, not just a restaurant experience.”

Sesame seeds garnishing the falafel was the first tell that we were in for the real deal, according to Moriah. The falafel arrived atop romaine and purple cabbage on a long, divided plate with

Chef Samir Shaltout emigrated from Egypt in the 1990s, and he brought his family’s recipes with him. “The tastes from home are still in my mouth,” he says.

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stuffed grape leaves and moussaka, a combination of fried peas. The menu boasts several types of whole fish, but beware eggplant, sweet pepper, garlic, onions, vinegar and crushed toof bones and expect an intense fishy taste. If scales are not mato. I don’t think it’s a particularly special dish and am likely your delight, order the breaded and baked white fish filet with to try the fried cauliflower next time or go with another egga buttery, garlic-touched white sauce served with rice and a plant dish I know I love — baba ghanoush. Chef Samir’s thinly salad (think fattoush without the bread). sliced calf liver marinated in garlic, cumin and vinegar looked While some cool days are still ahead, it’s worth nothing the like a daring choice for meat lovers looking to branch out. number of wholesome soups, stews and tagines. One notable What I can without a doubt recommend is ordering the tasoup is Egyptian mulu’khia, made by finely chopping the hini, a condiment made from toasted, ground and hulled sesaleaves of a plant by the same name with garlic, coriander and me seeds, to accompany the falafel instead of hummus. Most other spices and cooking it in chicken broth. This soup is slimy Egyptians do so, according to Moriah, like the inside of okra and is typically and select tahini in just about every eaten with bread, pita or over rice. context Americans choose hummus.

It’s tasty, but it will come down to Learn more at chefsamirshaltout.

Unlike nut butters, though, tahini is whether you can enjoy the mucilagibitter. If you like to balance out with nous texture. com and visit at 4212 West Wensweetness during your meals, spring Adventurous choices aside, Chef dover Avenue (GSO). for the cold hibiscus tea called karkaSamir’s lengthy menu offers somedeh instead of a sweetened tea. It’s thing for everyone: a host of small bold, fuschia coloring won me over hot and cold appetizers for mezzethe lure of options like guava, tamarind and mango juices. style sharing; distinctive vegan and vegetarian options like Egyptian staples like koshary, an immensely popular some of the tagines and the meat-free koshary; classic Medilunchtime street food in Cairo often considered the national terranean dishes familiar to Americans like meat kabobs and dish, are all over the menu. It’s one of the favorite food’s of shawarma; more than ample options for the seafood lover in Shaltout’s baba, a mixture of rice, macaroni and lentils topped your group; and a children’s menu featuring spaghetti, chicken with lightly spiced tomato sauce, crispy fried onion and chickfingers, hamburgers and fries, just in case.

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CULTURE Bookstore owner’s novel explores shattering nature of love

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had to set it down for about six muttering like some sort of or eight months,” Steve Mitchell professorial streetcorner recalled. “I had to wait for somevagrant declaiming Milton thing to happen.” between gulps of Mad Waiting is something a novelist comes Dog,” Mitchell writes. to both love and hate. Unlike short While on the one hand stories, poems or essays, novels can take Cloud Diary reads like a years to write. The art form that requires rom-com movie script, unconditional love for the project, love galivanting through the that must carry a writer through the awkward subtleties of a best parts, the difficult parts and all the new relationship, but a walls they hit along the way. But for certain devastation haunts writer Steve Mitchell, these walls were each passing scene. something a little different.

“We told the beautiful “I set restrictions on myself,” Mitchell and variegated versions of said. “I wanted to keep a sharp focus on that story, branching and these two characters. There are other returning as water strained characters but none that play any major through smaller tributaries role. I didn’t want flashbacks or to dig and finally meeting again into childhoods or anything. I wanted at a cardinal point, told and to keep it on the two of them, to show re-told it until we didn’t every side of their relationship.” any longer, until we were no Mitchell’s debut novel Cloud Diary, longer together, until the to be published by C&R Press in April, once we were had faded, centers on the relationship between and each version of the Doug and Sophie and explores the shatstory quietly folded itself tering nature of intimacy and love. But into memory.” like Mitchell’s 2012 story collection The Such ideas of memory Naming of Ghosts published by Winstondrive Mitchell’s novel.

Salem-based Press 53, Cloud Diary delves “I differentiate memory into the darkness of memory, turning from story,” Mitchell said. the past over in its hands, showing how “There are different stories Author Steve Mitchell posing with his first novel at Scuppernong, the bookstore DEONNA KELLI SAYED our histories are never simply behind us. we tell ourselves that are in downtown Greensboro ho co-owns.

Told from Doug’s perspective, Cloud not the same as memory. laughed with a lighthearted chuckle.

Diary relates the eight-year relationship The stories we tell ourselves tend to be comprised of things “The answer to that is yes and no,” he said. “There’s always between a quiet and aimless Doug with we want to believe. But memory is a real, visceral experience. so much going on. Right now we’re putting together this the attractive, extravagant artist, SoHow Faulkner said the past isn’t really the past, that is tied for literary festival, while there are always things going on at the phie. Mitchell has a true talent for relayme to this physicality of memory and this idea that when a store. Between that and finishing the book and finishing edits, ing striking detail that is just outside the memory comes it is actually present. It is not a recollection, it I haven’t had a lot of time to write. But I tend to believe that ordinary. The fluidity in which Mitchell is an actual presence in your body.” that will all change at some point. It’s essential for me as a moves between Beyond the stories that we happy human being to find time to write.” past and preshave at the ready, that we tell For Mitchell, the scope of his novel dips into fresh, excitent, keeping clear others and have told time and to learn more about Steve Mitchell ing territories of literary fiction. But just as his novel exceeds sight on perspecagain, Mitchell feels that memory and the projects surrounding Cloud the boundaries of imagination, his readings are set to do the tive and the overis more than just a breath in our Diary, visit www.clouddiary.org. same. Collaborating with nearly 18 local musicians, Mitchell arching vision of thoughts, but rather, it is a living plans elevate the experience with the launch of Cloud Diary at the story, each thing.

Scuppernong on April 6. line sings with “I am interested in how these “I put out a call to anyone who was interested and sent simplicity, while stories conflict with memory, and each musician a scene or chapter of the book at random and working with an enigmatic, layered duhow that physical memory comes about,” Mitchell said. basically told them, ‘Go,’” Mitchell said. “None of them know ality, unearthing the buried life of these Mitchell wrote Cloud Diary over a period of four years, what the others are doing or what part they have. The idea is characters with each sentence. Even in stating the idea had been there long before the words hit the to build a playlist to go along with the book, but to heighten the novel’s opening lines, one can see a page, but the art was in finding the right order the words were the overall experience.” slight hint of the deeper folds of these supposed to be, while also balancing his days with business as characters. co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro. When asked “In Sophie’s version, I was muttering if he managed to find ample time for his writing, Mitchell to myself (which I was) when we met,

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CULTURE Encore Dance Competition draws contestants from Carolinas

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n a quiet studio, eight girls in black leotards, pink tights and tight buns practice an ancient art.

First position. Second position.

Fixated and quiet, mothers watch daughters take hold of the bar from a video feed on a flat screen in the lobby area. Everything builds on what a dancer can do at the bar; every jump begins with a plie. But, unlike the past and — Third. elsewhere — the present, these young dancers “One and two and three and turn.” receive feedback rather than scornful looks and “Get that knee up!” pursed lips. The studio remains a learning space Passé turns into a pirouette. despite the competition numbers on their chest.

Somewhat disparate corners of the Eight dancers auditioned, some who have dance world been working with converged in Sparks and a few from Winston-Salem Learn more at edgeperforminother studios in the on Feb. 17: More garts.net and sc.edu. area. than 300 young All the dancers receive dancers complacements from fifth peted through through first place, but are simultaneously Encore Dance Competition for the Stars awarded on a points system. at RJ Reynolds Memorial Auditorium.

When the first dancer received the top award, Instructors brought teams from across a mother arose from the sea of partially-lit thethe Carolinas to make the cut. ater seat screaming, “I have a diamond!”

The eight are from Edge PerformBack at the studio, a few girls looked at theming Arts, Kerrie-Anne Sparks’ studio in selves in the mirror and worked out a kink they’d Winston-Salem, a ballet-based program just corrected, playful and perfectly serious, heavy on tradition. Sparks benefits from learning, with a little guidance, to know and conservatory training, first in Lynchburg, trust themselves.

Va. and then across the country, from Boston to Milwaukee.

Young dancers compete in the Encore Dance Competition for the Stars at RJ Reynolds Memorial Auditorium.

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