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The Miseducation of Cameron Post @ Aperture Cinema (W-S), 6 p.m.

Laser Zeppelin @ Greensboro Science Center, 7 p.m.

This new drama set in the early ’90s follows Cameron, a high school girl shipped off to a conversion-therapy center where she finds an unlikely queer community. Angela Mazaris, founding director of the Wake Forest University’s LGBTQ Center, joins the audience for a post-film dialogue.

Find the event on Facebook.

Overdose awareness event @ Mary’s Gourmet Diner (W-S), 6:30 p.m.

Join with others for music and reflection as the group remembers lost loved ones and raises awareness of the opioid epidemic. Consider bringing a picture to share for a memory banner.

Find the event on Facebook.

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Culture

Cool season gardening workshop @ Colony Urban Farm

Luke Wofford of Starbright Farm teaches the basics of organic, biointensive farming, focusing on soil health, pest control, bed prep and fall and winter gardening. The workshop will also be offered on Sept. 6 and Sept. 13. Learn more at colonyurbanfarm.com.

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Black Lillies @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

The foursome takes to the Ramkat stage with special guests Nora Jane Struthers and 6 String Drag for an evening filled with Americana sounds.

Learn more at theramkat.com.

This 45-minute laser lights show on the OmniSphere Theater’s 40-foot dome showcases some of Led Zeppelin’s greatest hits, including “Over the Hills and Far Away” and “Stairway to Heaven. Two shows will follow at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY

Food truck rally @ High Point Athletic Complex, 11 a.m.

R&B, neo-soul group Brothas Band performs live during this convergence of food and beverage-bearing vehicles. Find the event on Facebook.

Basement Life release party @ On Pop of the World Collective (GSO), 3 p.m.

Moana @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 7 p.m.

UNCG presents a free sunset screening of Disney’s 2016 fantasy action film at sunset. Come early to grab some eats from Ghassan’s, Porterhouse Burger Company or Café Europa before lounging on the lawn. Learn more at greensborodowntownparks. org and find the event on Facebook.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? @ Reynolda House of American Art (W-S), 7 p.m.

Settle under the night sky for the Coen Brothers’ satirical twist on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Three escaped prisoners search for hidden treasure in 1930s Mississippi, and meet lynch mobs and Cyclopes along the way. Beer and wine for purchase on the lawn complement an evening picnic. Learn more at reynoldahouse. org/calendar.

Greensboro’s indie-rock, post-punk band celebrates their new album Devour with a few of their closest friends, each allotted a roughly one-hour set: Harrison Ford Mustang, Instant Regrets, Old Heavy Hands and Night Sweats. A cookout will begin at 3 p.m. and artists will paint live throughout the afternoon. See the story on page 3, and find the event on Facebook.

Coltrane Jazz Festival @ Oak Hollow Festival Park (HP), 3 p.m.

The annual music festival honoring the legacy of iconic jazz saxophonist John Coltrane kicks off with performances by Gregory Porter, Lee Ritenour, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jazzmeia Horn and the North Carolina Coltrane All Star Band. The John Coltrane Youth Jazz Workshop performers open the festival. Learn more at coltranejazzfest.com.

Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk @ Monstercade (W-S), 7 p.m.

Ceremony, Spirit System, VIA and Bolmongani join Winston’s experimental ambient outfit. Find the event on Facebook.

Real Jazz @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

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Lecture night @ Bookmarks Bookshop (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

The free summer lecture series continues with an installment titled “Guns and Dynamite: Machine Politics, Mountain Style.”

The night will focus on corrupted machine politics in the early 20th Century South, specifically a case study of a local election in Polk County, Tenn. that broke out into serious violence. Learn more at bookmarksnc.org.

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Real Jazz kicks off the first of eight free Sunday evening jazz concerts. Savor the final hours of the weekend relaxing in the park or playing lawn games. Find the event on Facebook.

Opinion

Arts on Sunday Festival series @ Liberty St. downtown (W-S), 1 p.m.

Art for Art’s Sake brings their arts festival to the downtown Arts District once again for the month of September. Each Sunday festival features more than 60 local artists and craftspeople, a kid’s arts and crafts corner and live music. This week, Two Piece White and Abe Reid perform the blues. Learn more at theafasgroup.com/ artsonsunday.

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A Publix grocery store is coming to Greensboro, but the real prize is the distribution center with 1,000 new jobs.

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1. The news On Tuesday, at the State of Our Community Luncheon in the Guilford Ballroom of Koury Convention Center, Gov. Roy Cooper took the stage to announce a new Publix distribution hub in Greensboro, an investment of $400 million on the part of the company that will result in 1,000 new jobs, according to press reports.

2. Why Publix likes the Triad for the same reason FedEx — and, incidentally, Elton Turnbull’s infamous cocaine empire back in the 1990s — does: Easy access to all points on the East Coast and the interior east of the Mississippi River via our proximity to interstates 85, 73 and 40. A reported eight-figure incentives package at local, county and state levels sweetens the deal. The Guilford County Commission package refunds up to to 80 percent of Publix’s property tax over 10 years, amounting to about $17 million.

3. The wrinkle Publix grocery stores are dope, but you might not know that if you live in Greensboro.

Of the 30 or so Publix in North Carolina, including ones in Winston-Salem and High Point, none are in the Gate City… yet. But a new Publix store is set to open at Grandover Village near the corner of Gate City Boulevard and Guilford College Road in the fall.

4. The plan Almost every elected official in Guilford County, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, along with dozens of economic-development teams, the General Assembly and the governor’s office pitched in on this one, which was two years in the making.

The land is owned by Roy Carroll. Even former Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins got a shout-out from the podium.

5. The company Publix is a major player in the grocery game after humble beginnings in Florida in 1930. Acquisition and growth through the 1980s and ’90s led to an explosion of stores that began to spread throughout the Southeast. There are more than 1,200 of them now. And Publix is wholly owned by its employees, who each get presented with their first shares in the company after one year of service.

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Apparently, control of Congress, the White House and, soon, the Supreme Court isn’t enough for some conservatives. While most political observers point to a rightward political drift over the past four decades that has metastasized into a populist movement of white grievance, the breakaway partisans at the North Carolina Constitutional Party view the modern Republican Party as hopelessly compromised and obsolete.

Constitutional activists, who gained ballot access this year, like to compare the modern Republican Party to the 19th Century Whigs, which collapsed before the Civil War. If that were actually the case, then perhaps the Constitution schismatics could be seen as the leaders of a new party ready to assembly a new and vital political coalition, just as the original Republican Party did from the remnants of the Whigs and antislavery Democrats in the North in the 1850s. Aside from the wishful thinking baked into the analogy, the original Republican Party stood for national investment, with the creation of land-grant state universities and expansion of the railroads, along with civil rights and black enfranchisement. That platform holds a lot more in common with the modern Democratic Party than the Constitutional Party.

At best, the Constitutional Party and the Green Party — it’s counterpart on the left — are likely to play a spoiler effect by siphoning votes away from one of the two major parties instead of elevating their own candidates to elected office. But any hopes of that for the Constitutional Party appear to be dissipating with infighting that erupted earlier this week in the wake of news that the state’s congressional districts may be withdrawn.

Andy Stevens, an unsuccessful candidate for Stokes County Commission and gun-rights activist who is a familiar face at Greensboro City Council meetings, opened the skirmish with a question on the party’s Facebook page Tuesday morning: “If NC’s congressional districts are to be redrawn in a week or two, what will be the Constitutional Party procedure for getting back on the ballot as a CP candidate?” While expressing a desire to see Republican Virginia Foxx ousted in the 5th Congressional District, Stevens challenged Constitution Party leaders: “Well, have Plan A, B and C ready… and let people know.”

To which one Mike Becatti responded, “You are welcome to get involved in the party to make some of these things happen.”

Stevens replied, “I converted [party registration] the day the board of elections allowed me to do so. Current party rules, however, preclude me from having any active role because I would have had to have signed up before it was permitted. Go figure.”

It went downhill from there, with Stevens complaining, “If I’m not the type of individual you want involved in this party then you can kiss where the sun don’t shine.

Keep it up and you’ll have one less registered voter before the day ends.”

Stevens’ denunciation of the Constitution Party about seven hours later on his personal Facebook page drew mixed responses, including what amounted to a shrug from David Rollins, president of the Triad-based Rollins Broadcast Group and a member of the Republican National Committee.

“Wow, you have 275 registered voters in the state!” Rollins wrote. “Landslide coming!”

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Trouble in the political wilderness

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GFD downplays electrical ‘malfunction’ as cause of fatal fire

by Jordan Green An investigative report by the Greensboro Fire Department on a fire that took the lives of five Congolese refugee children appears to contradict information collected by a code inspector with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, while discounting statements by the family that their kitchen stove was inoperable.

Members of a Congolese refugee family told a Greensboro fire investigator that they had stopped using a kitchen stove because it wasn’t working, but the official report released by the department on Monday reiterated an earlier conclusion that a fatal fire was caused by “unattended cooking,” while adding that “there were no indicators that a malfunction of the stove was an ignition source.”

The five children, ages 18 months to 9 years old, of Mugabo Emmanuel and Furaha Lucy, perished in an overnight fire on May 12 at Summit-Cone apartments, a troubled complex that has since been condemned by the city. Greensboro fire units responded to the fire at 3:54 a.m. Emmanuel told fire Investigator Bridget Crump that he had put his children to bed. Their mother had been working a 12-hour shift at the Pilgrim’s Pride chicken plant, and returned home to find the apartment engulfed in flames.

The couple does not speak English, but for months neighbors and community supporters have said that Emmanuel had repeatedly called the property manager to request that the stove be repaired, or that neighbors had called on Emmanuel’s behalf. Irene Agapion-Martinez, whose family owns the apartments, has said owners received no complaints about the stove at the apartment rented by the Emmanuel family in the days leading up to the fire.

One thing not in dispute is that the fire originated from a pot of food on the stove.

“The area of origin was the stove and the point of origin was the left front eye,” Crump wrote in the report. “Radiate heat from the operation of the stove ignited organic material causing the fire. Flames extended vertically from the stove and horizontally across the ceiling until the apartment was consumed in an atmosphere that was immediately dangerous to life and health.”

The report appears to rule out the possibility that the stove spontaneously activated, leading to the fire.

“There were no indicators that a malfunction of the stove was an ignition source,” the report said.

Statements by three adult family members to the fire investigator align on the point that the stove was not working at the time of the fire.

Five days after the fire, Emmanuel told the Crump and police Detective WA Morton that on the evening of May 11, he had returned from his job at Prime Solutions Del-Mont Production between 9 and 9:20 p.m. He said he changed clothes and then took the children over to eat supper at his parents’ apartment.

He explained that he took the family to eat his parents’ place because their own stove was not working. Lucy told the investigator that she didn’t remember the last time she had cooked. Emmanuel also told the investigator that “the stove was not used in a while due to it turning on and off by itself.”

Lucy told the investigator that her sister-in-law, Naomie Machibiri, brought food in a medium-sized pot to the apartment just before she had to leave for work. Investigators also interviewed Machibiri, who confirmed that she brought the food over between 2:30 and 3 p.m. Emmanuel, who would have been at work when the food was dropped off, told the investigator that he didn’t take note of the pot after returning with the children from his parent’s apartment because they had already eaten.

The report also documents a history of trouble with the stove.

The investigation revealed that only 41 days after the property management company purchased the stove from Chavarria Appliance on Spring Garden Street, it had to be repaired. Investigators noted that a receipt confirmed the stove was purchased on Nov. 15, 2017.

The report states, “Mario Chavarria received a text on 12/26/2017 from [property management company] ARCO stating the stove doesn’t work.

Mr. Chavarria responded the next day and repaired the stove.”

During his May 17 interview with fire Inspector Crump and police Detective Morton, the report indicates that Mugabo Emmanuel “said that a week or two before the fire they had reported two things were not working in the bathroom: the toilet and the bath handle.

Personnel responded to repair the issues, but did nothing about the stove. The

Greensboro police Capt. Trey Davis (right) responds to questions from Summit-Cone apartments residents during a meeting in May.

worker told them he was only a plumber and could not look at the stove. Mr. Emmanuel called the office to report nothing was done about the stove.”

In an interview with Crump on May 14, Irene Agapion-Martinez confirmed that the day before the fire a work order had been placed to repair a bath handle that was broken in Unit G, the apartment where the Emmanuel family lived.

The section of the report detailing the interview with Agapion-Martinez also indicates that on May 10 “a unit in the same building placed a work order for repair on the stove not working,” although the report doesn’t specify which unit. Agapion-Martinez did not return messages for this story.

The investigative report completed

by Greensboro fire Investigator Bridget Crump relied on an electrical examination by Chris Faucette, a building code enforcement officer with the Office of the State Fire Marshall. Faucette authored a one-page section that is included in the report.

Faucette wrote that during his May 15 examination he discovered that “the circuit feeding the 2-circuit/240 volt sub-panel that supplied power to the range was missing its cable connector on both ends of the cable.” He also wrote: “And improper installation of SE cable connectors on sub-panel side.”

Faucette’s section of the report concludes: “The damage to the electri-

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cal panels were such that I could not determine if any wiring had faulted prior to fire.”

Faucette declined to comment for this story. Brian Taylor, the chief state fire marshal, said the state agency concurred with the Greensboro Fire Department’s final report, while referring all other questions to the local agency.

Yet the “Develop Hypothesis” section of Crump’s report appears to contradict Faucette’s inconclusive assessment that the electrical panels were damaged so badly that he “could not determine if any wiring faulted prior to the fire.”

Crump wrote, “Issues were noted relating to electrical code violations, but nothing noted that would point to electrical malfunction as a fire cause. There were only two breakers in the large panel that had tripped and per Mr. Faucette those did not power the stove. There was a separate panel with a breaker for the stove. There did not appear to be any damage other than heat from the fire itself to that breaker.”

Dwayne Church, an assistant chief with the Greensboro Fire Department, said Crump was not available to comment on the report. Asked about the apparent discrepancies between the state code inspector’s findings and Crump’s determinations, Church told Triad City

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WSFCS looks for property for new Ashley building

by Jordan Green Ashley Elementary was on a list of schools slated for replacement in 2015 under a proposed bond. The project was dropped from the list before the bond package went before Forsyth County voters in November 2016. Then students and teachers started getting sick.

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eyes, upper respiratory issues, and aggravation of existing allergies.”

According to the complaint, a group of teachers began complaining about facility conditions to school officials in August 2017, and in response the district hired an environmental consultant to conduct limited testing. The district also reportedly hired a contractor to clean the HVAC units, but staff and students continued to experience symptoms. As a result of the continuing complaints, the district hired a second consultant, who reportedly found “extensive visible mold growth” in the HVAC system. As a result, the school board approved the replacement of the HVAC system in May 2018.

Ashley Elementary had initially been slated for replacement in the most recent bond election, in November 2016. During a meeting with urban community leaders in October 2015, school leaders responded positively to one recommendation in particular that was put forward by the coalition: To close Ashley Elementary and rebuild at a new location.

Superintendent Beverly Emory said, “That’s what we saw in your recommendations that we were like, ‘Yay.’ That’s where our minds are at, and it was nice to be validated by the community and neighborhood.”

By the spring of 2016, the proposed bond package had been winnowed from $552.5 million to $325.8 million, and replacement of Ashley Elementary was no longer on the list of projects.

Dana Caudill Jones, the board chair, said on Tuesday that funding in the most recent bond cycle to design a new facility for Ashley puts the school at the front of the line for replacement in the next bond referendum.

“That ensures that right out of the gate it will be ready, so in the next bond cycle it will be shovel-ready, like Konnoak Elementary was during the last bond cycle,” Jones said.

Staff is again in the midst of negotiations to acquire property for a new school for Ashley students.

“We’re working with a couple other government entities around a particular property,” Walker said. “We have the ability to purchase it. Some of the land is tied up around grant funding and housing.”

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Students at Ashley Elementary returned to school on Monday to a facility with a new heating, ventilation and airconditioning system.

With 84.2 percent of its students classified as “economically disadvantaged,” the school east-side school is one of the poorest in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and it’s the lowest performing school in the district.

Earlier this month, the school district and its board found itself on the receiving end of a federal complaint alleging violation of the students’ civil rights due to the district’s handling of complaints from parents and staff about mold, water leaks and poor indoor air quality. A Title VI complaint filed with the Office of Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice by the Durham-based Southern Coalition of Social Justice on behalf of the Action4Ashley Coalition asks for a federal investigation and order for a federal order compelling the school district to remedy the situation.

Dana Caudill Jones, the board chair, said she couldn’t comment on the specific claim of discrimination against the students at Ashley Elementary considering the legal ramifications of the complaint, but she argued that school leaders have responded appropriately to the health concerns at the school.

“In the last school year, we held three different meetings with parents,” Jones said. “After we started planning to remediate the air handling at the school, we spent over $1.4 million. When we heard from the parents, they wanted the school to stay open. They told us they wanted the work done well. All the comments we’ve heard from the parents have been positive since we completed the work.”

The complaint anticipated Jones’ response. “The district argues that they have addressed the issue by allocating funds to repair the HVAC system,” it states. “However, the repairs neither rectify past harms nor address the underlying excessive moisture and poor facility conditions that will continue to plague the Ashley school community until they are in a new building.”

The civil rights complaint contrasts

the district’s handling of the health concerns at Ashley Elementary, which is 94.2 percent non-white, with its response to concerns about groundwater contamination and air quality at Hanes and Lowrance Middle Schools in January 2015. The board voted 7-2 to close Hanes-Lowrance before a consulting company completed testing to determine if a chemical in the ground water created significant health risks. The civil rights complaint cites the cost of relocating the students as $3- to $4 million.

“Notably, both Hanes and Lowrance had a significantly higher population of white students than Ashley (44 percent white and 28 percent white compared to 5.8 percent white),” the complaint argues. “As a result, the parents and advocates urging the board to act during the Hanes-Lowrance situation were predominantly white, while the parents, teachers and advocates advocating for action in the Ashley crisis are black. Relatedly, the ‘wait-and-see’ attitude exhibited by WSFCS in regards to concerns about Ashley is a distinct departure from the urgency shown in 2015 for the students at Hanes and Lowrance Middle Schools.”

The complaint filed by the Action4Ashley Coalition quotes Jones as saying after the firm Mid-Atlantic determined that air samples at Hanes-Lowrance indicated there was no immediate risk to students: “I still think it was the right decision. When you have students, children… you do what’s right. You err on the side of caution.”

Jones said on Tuesday that she stands behind her statement, and believes it’s also consistent with the board’s response to health concerns at Ashley Elementary.

“Those same words that I said about Hanes-Lowrance apply to Ashley,” she said. “I care about all of our children.”

The message Jones said she’s received about Ashley parents wanting to keep their children in the school contrasts with the order the complainants are seeking from the Office of Civil Rights at the US Department of Education.

The complainants want the district to build a new facility for the students “as soon as practicable.”

According to the complaint, the Ashley school building was built in the 1960s, and “persistent moisture issues leading to mold growth and poor air quality… have led to health issues for students and staff including chronic sinus infections, headaches/migraines, itchy

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Beat: “That doesn’t seem contradictory to me at all.”

Although the Greensboro Police Department’s criminal investigations division assisted with the investigation, the report noted, “The identification of parties having possible civil and/or criminal responsibility for the fire incident is beyond the scope of analysis contained in this report.”

According to the report, Detective Morton collected the stove and took it to a police facility at 300 S. Swing Road to preserve as evidence. The report says Morton collected the evidence under the authority of Capt. Trey Davis, commander of the criminal investigations division, and city Police Attorney Polly Sizemore.

Public Information Ronald Glenn declined to comment on whether the Greensboro Police Department is investigating possible criminal responsibility for the death of the five children at the apartment, repeatedly deflecting questions on the matter to the fire department during an interview.

Following a community outcry, the city of Greensboro agreed to inspect all units at the Summit-Cone apartments.

After an inspection on Aug. 13, the city announced that 696 violations remained outstanding and condemned 41 out of 42 of the units. As a result, the city ordered residents to leave by Sept. 14.

Compounding the residents’ woes, Duke Energy confirmed that a downed pole caused an outage at the apartments on Aug. 24, resulting in a loss of power for almost seven hours.

Brett Byerly, executive director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition, said some of the residents have already left, but 27 families are still looking for a place to live. The housing coalition and other agencies hosted a “landlord-tenant fair” across the street from SummitCone apartments on Aug. 25, but the number of landlords interested in renting to refugees is limited.

“We had two property management companies come out, which I was hoping to have a lot more than that,” Byerly said. “It was pushed out far and wide to the [Greensboro] Landlords Association and the Triad Apartment Association.

I understand it’s right in the middle of kids going back to school…. It was disappointing that we didn’t have more than that. But if two or three residents found housing as a result it was surely worthwhile for them.”

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NC redistricting enters the realm of the absurd If any more evidence be needed to demonstrate the utter absurdity of it all, look no further than North Carolina, where greed, shortsightedness and straightup ineptitude have converged to loosen a key linchpin in American government.

It’s the gerrymandered districts, of course, designed to lock down one-party rule and overturned three times now by federal three-judge panels.

This means that we may need to redraw our illegal congressional districts before the November election, which would be a guaranteed clusterchuck. But there’s little possibility of this happening, because NC Republicans can take this new decision to the Supreme Court — the same Supreme Court they appealed this same decision before back in January.

Back then, the Supremes declined to hear the case — the august body has never definitively ruled on partisan gerrymandering, preferring instead to parse language and skittle around the edges of the practice.

This is the part where it gets good.

It’s a different Supreme Court that the one that ruled in January: Justice Kennedy resigned, and his replacement — Trump’s guy Brett Kavanaugh — might tip the scales in the Republican’s favor… only he hasn’t been confirmed yet because everybody is waiting to find out if the guy who nominated him actually won the election, or if he’s a Russian asset, or if he broke campaign-finance law, or if he’s actively obstructing justice or whatever.

If Trump can’t get Kavanaugh cleared before the hearing, the divided court will either once again decline to hear the case, or likely end up in a 4-4 split, in which case the decision by the three-judge panel stands.

But what happens then?

We either have the special master draw new districts, hold a primary in November and then a special election as a stand in for the general in… when?

December? Or we use the new districts, sort out all the double-bunking issues that might arise and have the two parties internally nominate candidates for the open seats. Or we use the old districts, which we know are illegal, just one more time.

And hey: Don’t forget that the balance of power in Congress is on the line in a year when there’s talk of impeachment.

It’s really quite incredible.

If the NC Republicans’ goal was to wedge a plug in the wheels of our republic and grind it to a halt, then they have succeeded beyond doubt.

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Resurrecting Silent Sam would pour gas on the fire

UNC-Chapel Hill graduate nationalist movement an optimal rallying point to unify student Tim Osborne confronted and pull together more cautious elements of the far right. a man with “SS” thunderbolts — a That’s something they haven’t had since their public-relasymbol that represents the Aryan tions catastrophe in Charlottesville. You may as well erect a Nations white supremacist prison giant sign outside the town limits reading, “Nazis: Welcome gang — tattooed behind his ear to Chapel Hill.” during a heated exchange near the Although she might be faulted for dithering in the face site where protesters toppled the of a mounting crisis, Chancellor Carol Folt reiterated her

by Jordan Green Silent Sam statue five days earlier. view that Silent Sam should be relocated in a conference “You’re literally a Nazi,” Osborne said. call with reporters after the clashes that took place on Aug. The man with the tattoo, who identified himself only as 25.

“Mike,” carried a Confederate flag. His friend held a small “I said from the start I think it’s in the interest of public handwritten sign reading, “Heritage, not hate.” safety that I would find a better location — a safe, secure Asked why he had a Nazi tattoo on his neck, the man location for the monument that would allow us to talk known as “Mike” responded, “When we’re at a rally for that, about it, learn from it, and deal with it in a respectful and then we’ll discuss that.” appropriate way,” Folt said.

The Silent Sam statue is literally about beating a black The university also finally acknowledged on Aug. 24 that woman for publicly insulting a “Southern lady” and celstudents opposed to the monument have been receiving ebrating a Ku Klux Klan campaign of racial terror. If you threats. don’t know this by now, I suggest a Google search with the Among the threats of violence posted on the Facebook terms “Silent Sam dedication” page of ACTBAC — the and “Julian Carr.”

Alamance County group Thom Goolsby, a Repubhosting the upcoming lican member of the UNC “Silent Sam Twilight Service” Board of Governors and on Thursday — is this gem former state senator, has from one Justin Allman: vowed that Silent Sam will “Done talking. Done fightbe returned to its pedestal in ing. Time to drop them the center of the campus at where they stand. Let us UNC-Chapel Hill. Goolsby treat them the same way put out a video on Monday they have treated our statdoubling down on a previous ues. Let the streets flow with statement, saying, “UNC has the blood of the ignorant.” no choice but to re-install SiJust to confirm the aulent Sam or allow mob rule.” thenticity of the comment, Notably, Goolsby is not the I messaged Allman to ask chair, so it’s curious that he’s him if he stood by it.

JORDAN “Mike” (right) confronted by Tim Osborne speaking for the board.

“Bet your ass I do,” he GREEN about his SS tattoo in Chapel Hill.

In a situation that the responded. university describes as “highly The Jim Crow system charged,” Goolsby is pouring gasoline on the fire. Few, if signaled by the erection of Confederate monuments any, Confederate monuments that have been removed across the South in the early 20th Century was built and maintained on a wave of murder directed at black people. have been re-erected. The Confederate monument torn It should surprise exactly no one that the monuments’ supdown by protesters in Durham last year is still down. porters are willing to use the same tactics to maintain them.

Cities from Baltimore to Lexington, Ky. quietly removed We can only hope that the incompetence and lack of monuments in the dead of night after the Unite the Right coordination of groups like ACTBAC will sabotage their rally in Charlottesville. The University of Texas at Austin efforts to capitalize on the controversy surrounding Silent did the same. For North Carolina to be the only state in the Sam. ACTBAC allowed an outside group from eastern nation to re-erect a Confederate monument would be like, Tennessee to pre-empt their plans for a public response to I dunno, maybe being the only state to pass a law preventthe toppling of Silent Sam, likely resulting in smaller turnout ing transgender people from using the bathroom that acthan if they’d had more time to prepare. But because cords with their gender identity. It seems almost like North one of ACTBAC’s members was arrested for punching Carolina is hellbent on being as shunned and isolated as an anti-racist protester and one of the two men standing Mississippi was in the 1960s. with Confederate flags at the outset was a member, most More to the point, it shows a callous disregard for the people will likely associate the event with them. safety of the campus community — students, faculty and It may be comforting to think extremists can be ignored staff, who overwhelmingly reject the statue and what it because they’ll eventually shoot themselves in the foot. But represents — to call for it to be put back up in the same that’s not a gamble anyone should take lightly. place. Keeping the controversy alive would give the white-

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canteen is a mess hall, a meettures foodstuffs from around ing place, a bustling stop to the world. gather provisions. While on the “We wanted to try to offer sophisticated side of an old idea, things that aren’t offered the Canteen Market and Bistro hopes to in Winston, not necessarily preserve the approachability of a neighexpensive items,” Swaim says. borhood spot.

“We didn’t think we were The new gourmet food and beverage showing Winston something market, deli, bar and dine-in restaurant new; this isn’t, ‘We’re gonna sits on the corner of Spruce and Fourth to show Winston how it streets in downtown Winston-Salem. works.’ I was born and raised Claire Calvin, owner of the Porch Kitchen here…. Winston-Salem has & Cantina and Alma Mexicana, and Eric always been a very industrial, Swaim, an owner of Hoots Beer Comurban city so we wanted to do pany, met as business neighbors in the something more representaWest End Millworks complex. They’ve tive of that. There’s no reason banded together to start Pindustries, a we can’t support a more restaurant and venue development LLC. urban-driven market like this.”

Canteen is the duo’s first project.

The supposedly cursed “The idea is we would develop mulcorner locale has served as a tiple businesses and try out different revolving door for a number models for Winston, a lot of them being of ventures over the years, multi-purpose,” Swaim says. “We felt it including a Latin American was something Winston needed. There’s restaurant, a club and Cat’s a lot of traffic on Fourth Street and so Corner, a breeze-through LAUREN BARBER The Canteen occupies the territory between corner market and neighborhood much interest in the area that just needs sandwich joint. bistro, the first project from Pindustries restaurant and development group. a little more to carry that momentum.”

Swaim and Calvin chose Grand opening weekend kicks off on to start fresh, retaining grand choices,” Swaim says. “Now I know I can come… grab a sandSept. 7 but the eatery is serving both metal pillars but knocking down walls and carving out winwich and cat food from Perk and then come here and get the lunch and dinner as of this week and is dows to Spruce Street, which allow natural light to spill into stuff we have.” largely operational. Chef Chris Almand, the market and bar area. Light-colored ash wood, geometric “Here” is 411 best known for his time at West End white tiling and crisp lines contribute to a minimalist aesthetic Fourth St., an adCafé, is at the bistro’s helm. The Canteen while details like brass-plated signs hint at the city’s industrial dress the owners team partners with Whit Acres Farm, character. like to play with.

Every Tuesday a family farm within city limits, for the Passersby can peek into the picture-windowed deli kitchen, “[Canteen is] an Jullian Sizemore 7-10pm produce and meat that will bedrock a sharp right from the entrance. Offerings include grab-andinformation hub, a their vision for an go meals and the meats and cheeses most cultural hub, so the Every Wednesday urbane but relaxed would expect to see, but Calvin and Swaim’s 411 stand serves as Matty Sheets 7-10pm experience that privision extends beyond the standards. Deli much more than a oritizes quality over visitors will find dinner kits, fully-prepared Find the Canteen on host stand,” Swaim Every Thursday pomp. dinners and unique choices like marinated says. “It’ll have the Facebook and visit at 411 Open Mic Night “You can come cuts of fish. symphony schedule W. Fourth Street (W-S). in for dinner and get “We’re calling the deli ‘The Daily’ beand downtown Friday Aug 31 a really high-end, cause the idea is it’ll constantly be changevents so you can Wolfie Calhoun elevated kind of meal ing,” Swaim says. “Anything from soba easily get a cup of but you can also noodles to an interesting chicken salad to a coffee and lunch grab a burger at lunch,” Swaim says. marinated pork chop. Come in, stop at the counter, pick up a and see what all is “But that burger is going to be on a bun bottle of wine in the cellar and you’ve got dinner.” going on that week. baked in house and the meat will be For those looking to eat in, though, Canteen’s seating We’re hoping this from a farm three miles away with some capacity will soon double with the addition of patio seating will bring more awesome cheese we’re excited about at on Fourth Street’s deep sidewalk in contrast with the indoor people to Fourth the time.” bistro’s dimly-lit, intimate setting in the interior’s far corner.

Street and will be The menus range from beer-braised An elbow bar is also available indoors for customers eyeing a representative of mussel starters and harissa roasted solo deli lunch or a coffee break with a scone and their laptop. what’s to come for vegetables to rainbow trout and upscale Other daily-made baked goods like cookies, cakes and baWinston-Salem.” twists on classic sandwiches and salads. guettes are scattered about the front end of the space.

At every level, Canteen is highly So while the comparison might seem apt at first, Canteen curated experience. is markedly different from Washington Perk just down the Shopping baskets are metal, not way.

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CULTURE Max Barwick, 1618 Midtown bartender, makes gold in a glass

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ax Barwick, the bar manager at 1618 Midtown in Greensboro, recently won the 2018 Cocktail Classique, a national mixology competition that uses Lucid absinthe, with his drink, “Bitter Party of One.” Barwick will visit the Lucid Absinthe’s Distillery in France in November.

How long have you been bartending and how did you get into it?

I started in service industry as soon as I was old enough to work. I’ve done everything from bussing tables to serving. I fell in love with food really early on and cooking and eating and the combinations of different flavors. A few years ago, when I was managing a sushi place in High Point, I started making drinks behind the bar for customers. That’s when I found that I really liked bartending.

The bar acts as a kind of front-of-house kitchen, with lots of experimenting with flavors but just not as serious; it’s more fun. I started working for 1618 five years ago when it was still a wine lounge and was asked to do their beverage program.

My girlfriend, Emma Smith, is the bar manager at 1618 Downtown, so we have that shared passion. We stay up late nights just talking about a single bottle of rum.

How did you get involved with the competition?

This was actually my first competition ever. Emma and I were talking one day about how we both wanted to start entering competitions. The Lucid one was the first one that popped up for the beginning of the year. I found out about it through an email sent out by the US Bartenders Guild. To apply, I had to follow a list of rules or criteria for recipes like the minimum amount of absinthe you had to use and I had to choose which region I wanted to compete in. The choices were Houston, Brooklyn, Seattle, Atlanta, and Chicago. I wanted to pick Atlanta but couldn’t because the semi-finals were during the furniture market, so I went with Brooklyn and qualified based on the recipe I sent in.

What was the process of coming up with the drink like? How did you pick the ingredients?

As soon as I applied, I had an idea for the cocktail. I wanted to make a sort of tiki drink that was shaken and stirred but had a depth of flavor with less

ingredients. Usually tiki drinks have like 13 ingredients but for the competition, we couldn’t have more than eight including a garnish. We also have a huge rum program here and so I decided to make a drink that was equal parts Lucid absinthe, rum and bitters. The cool fennel and lavender flavors from the absinthe paired with the spice from the bitters which are super clove-heavy, and the flavors of allspice and nutmeg make a super aromatic drink. The rum has decent back-sweetening, too, so you get these banana and pineapple flavors. We also used a house-made falernum, a rum-based island spiced syrup that’s made from lime zest, ginger, toasted cloves, toasted almonds and rum. In its nature, it’s an island beverage but it’s served the opposite of that because it’s smaller and isn’t served with ice. We had to condense it on itself with all of the depth of flavor.

It’s sweeter than I thought it would be but not too sweet. It has a kick in the beginning with a smooth, spicy finish.

Yeah, I have the words “Nothing too sweet” tattooed on my body. For any drink, the bitter, sour, sweet and spirit should all balance out. The drink should have layers to it. This one has cloves so it’s on the spicy end and I get some of that fennel and fruit loops from the absinthe too.

What was the actual competition like?

Entering was weird because I submitted and then I didn’t hear anything for months. I had to stop thinking about it all the time. I got the email that I qualified for the regional competition in Brooklyn and then when I won, it was surreal to talk about for like two weeks. Then the national competition was in New Orleans and there were five of us, one from each of the regions. They did the whole thing on Facebook live and I had to just give my phone to Emma because my phone kept going off. You also had to bring your own glassware and I checked a liter of the falernum into my suitcase. Everyone had 10 minutes to present to three judges and talk them through your idea and how you’re making drink.

Did you prepare a speech or talk before you went?

No, I didn’t because I’m used to working behind a bar and I knew there were things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to treat it like service and talk to them how I would talk to my guests here. I have an educational style of bartending because the cocktail stuff here is so new for our day-to-day guests and I’ve adapted that style of teaching so I took that approach with the judges.

What did it feel like when they announced that you had won?

I had a weird rush of feeling and it was very humbling and weird to win the first one I’ve entered. I’m still wrapping my head around it, it’s weird. I’m honored to have been able to make drinks with the guys I competed with; they’re all world class.

Max Barwick’s drink, Bitter Party of One, took First Place at the 2018 Cocktail Classique.

don’t have a passport. Emma is getting all my paperwork together now.

Do you plan on entering more competitions?

Yeah, I want to enter more this year. I’m entering one for Montenegro because it’s a global competition but they’re only picking 10 people from US. I’ll try to do a couple of the big ones next year too. There’s nothing better than making drinks and getting to travel. There’s tons of opportunity in the industry.

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What happens now?

I’m going to France in November which is cool because I’ve never been out of the country before. I’ll be visiting the Lucid distillery and maybe even doing a bar takeover in Paris. I still

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What’s your favorite drink?

My favorite cocktail is probably a classic daiquiri. Lime juice, rum and sugar — it’s my go-to. We have them on tap here.

It doesn’t have to be this white, frozen, super sweet drink. We’re still in the age in Greensboro where you go see people for cocktails, not necessarily places but we’re creeping out of that. We have a crazy food scene here but the bar and drink scene is pretty far behind. All you can do is keep trying to push it and be helpful to each other.

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Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World explores the classic children’s tales through the lens of modern themes and issues.

Mae Weems’ staged photograph “Mirror Mirror” is also one of few works in Dread and Delight to offer comic relief despite serious subject matter. The photograph is one in her series Ain’t Jokin, Weems’ project examining racial jokes. In it, a black woman holds a rectangular, framed mirror to her face above an all-caps, sans-serif font reading: “Looking into the mirror, the black woman asked, ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the finest of them all?’ The mirror says, ‘Snow White you black

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b****, and don’t you forget it!!!.’” The quote is attributed to Jackie “Moms” Mabley, a civil rights-era black comedienne who sought to lay bare the implicit racial bias in Walt Disney’s emergent franchise. The tarred female figure in Alison Saar’s hanging sculpture “Blonde Dreams” is elevated but, rather than confined to a pedestal (or tower, like Rapunzel), her feet

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are bound with rope from the ceiling and she is thus rendered immobile, her free-flowing gold-leafed hair dangling below her. The pose evokes a lynching, but the artist insists the suspension is self-inflicted, an attempt to achieve desirability under the terms and conditions of Eurocentric beauty standards.

Photographer Miwa Yanagi extends the Learn more at weatherconversation to age, spoon.uncg.edu and visit namely the dynamic in which young and old at 500 Tate St. (GSO). women tend to be diametrically opposed as good and evil in these age-old tales. Her black-and-white photograph shows a young woman taking a meagre, wrinkled finger into her mouth, an action simultaneously grotesque and alluring. The hand of this unseen witchy character emerges from columned bars, but who is captor here? Yanagi seems to suggest that ageism clutches both youthful and elderly women captive.

On opening night last Saturday, museum-goers went swimming in the collective unconscious amongst eager, speculating art students, considering what, or whom, they’d consumed or locked up high in their towers, not so innocent after all.

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laxen, braided hair tendrils — dozens of them, dreamlike and overwhelming — cascade from the highceilinged gallery as viewers stand in place of the witch or Rapunzel’s suitor.

Cherry-red ribbons tied to the tendrils read “clean water,” “my family” and “free speech,” all rebukes to the witch’s misogynist emphasis on purity.

MK Guth’s “Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping” is but one sculpture featured in Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, a new exhibit of contemporary works rooted in the Brothers Grimm compilation of centuries-old fireside tales at UNCG’s Weatherspoon Art Museum. The exhibit, which invites all attendees to grapple with personal and cultural values, is on display through Dec. 9 in the Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery.

Paintings, photographs, videography and sculptures focus a critical lens on many familiar classical tales. Entrapment and exploitation of power are common themes, whether embodied in Rapunzel’s imprisonment or the French telling of All Fur, in which the heroine faces incestuous threat.

With “Mother-Load,” Timothy Horn calls the rags-to-riches American dream into question in his life-size riff on Cinderella’s pumpkin-turned-carriage constructed from materials like polystyrene foam, crystallized candy and shellac. Not all that glitters is gold, after all. Perhaps capitalism and the farce of meritocracy are just as much to blame as cruel stepmothers.

Sculptor Tom Otterness also scrutinizes society’s ills in his bare-bones bronze construction, taking inspiration from Hansel and Gretel. Whereas Gretel isn’t caged in the classic story, both children are imprisoned here and it is Hansel who clings for comfort to the bars of a cubic cage, the frightened sibling. Their fate is even less certain than in classic tellings because no one else is around; even the identical cage next to them is empty.

What previous tenets have since perished? Who will occupy the cage next?

Otterness’ Spartan sculpture coupled with the story’s underlying context of child abuse as linked to poverty tell the beholder a story about hunger both in the literal sense of malnutrition and in the sense of yearning for childhoods filled more with play than fear.

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