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More sex, less chocolate

In the years before I stopped drinking, I enjoyed many a Sexual Chocolate stout from Foothills Brewing. I remember when it

by Brian Clarey came out, when it got its first big media moment on a CNN report about its annual release, when it hit.

I remember writing about the original label, which I loved: a tribute to Pam Grier and other strong, black women from the Blaxploitation era, with a subtle nod to the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America.

And I remember thinking a few years later, at the dawn of this era I’ve been calling the New Puritanism, that it was only a matter of time before one of my writers got offended by it.

I admitted to myself that it was an indefensible position: a company with white, male leadership tapping into an American taboo: the sexualization of strong, nubile, black women, commodified and sold to a market of predominantly white males.

And I knew that young people — by which

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I mean people younger than I — have no cultural awareness of the Eddie Murphy film, which would soften their reaction somewhat.

Lauren Barber took the subject on in last year’s beer issue, saying, “The bottom line is that the Sexual Chocolate label art is racist and sexist and that Foothills — so often framed as a crowning glory in our community — can and should do better.”

And so, just in time for this year’s beer issue, they did.

In September, Foothills changed the recipe for its Sexual Chocolate, infusing the stout with coffee and aging it in bourbon barrels, and affixed it with a new label.

The new look foregoes African-American imagery in favor of a sudsy chalice of the brew. It’s tilted to activate the foamy suds, which take the form of… is that two women making out?

Whatever. Kudos go out to Foothills for the socially conscious change, though the official reason is the recipe change and the 15th anniversary of the brewery, which remains a solid institution in the Triad.

And it doesn’t matter whether I like it or not. I don’t drink beer anymore.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK And this is why opioids have become a crisis: We don’t understand, or won’t allow ourselves to understand, who the victims are. Not all junkies are on the street.

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THURSDAY Oct. 31

Grown-up trick-or-treat @ Black Mountain Chocolate (W-S), 9 a.m.

For those too old to go door to door, Black Mountain Chocolate serves up an all-day game. Head over to the candy spot to get clues that will lead guests on a scavenger hunt for gift cards around Winston-Salem. Find the event on Facebook.

Halloween 2019 @ the Ramkat (W-S), 7 p.m.

Roosevelt Collier and Marvelous Funkshun bring their costumes and a dual setlist for a Halloween-night concert.

Roosevelt Collier presents “Jimi Meets Funk,” while Marvelous Funkshun performs “Shades of Two Worlds.” Find the event on Facebook.

Halloween Bash @ Boxcar Bar + Arcade (GSO), 9 p.m.

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Rhett & Link @ Brendle Recital Hall (W-S), 6:30 p.m.

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Experience Puerto Rico @ Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co. (GSO), 12 p.m.

Bookmarks hosts YouTube sensations Rhett & Link for a visit Wake Forest University to promote their new book, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek. The North Carolinian duo based their fictional town on their hometown of Buie’s Creek. Learn more on Facebook.

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Graduate String Quartet @ Greenhill (GSO), 7 p.m.

As part of First Friday, Greenhill invites the Graduate String Quartet from UNCG to perform within the gallery.

Enjoy a live concert while surrounded by the gallery’s current exhibits. Find the event on Facebook.

The Crucible @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Gibb’s Hundred Brewing in conjunction with Boricuas en North Carolina present the Boricua Fall Fest. The afternoon is filled with Puerto Rican music, food trucks and family-friendly activities. Find the event on Facebook.

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Watch as the Salem Witch Trials unfold on stage in a performance of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, in the Scales Art Center. Performances run through Nov. 10. Buy tickets and learn more at events.wfu.edu.

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Time to get spooky with a costume party at Boxcar. DJ WaWa brings the tunes, while the bar staff serves up themed cocktails. Dress the best and win a prize in one of three costume contests. Find the event on Facebook.

Once @ Stevens Center (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

As part of the UNCSA Presents series, Once travels from Broadway to Winston-Salem. The musical tells the story of a street musician in Dublin, and the woman who becomes interested in his music. Find the event on Facebook.

Elsewhere hosts a party for this local drum group for their final show, after over a decade. The group performs with a focus on social progress and activism. Find the event on Facebook.

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Greensboro Jewish Festival @ Temple Emanuel (GSO), 11 a.m.

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An Evening with Paula Poundstone @ the Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Paula Pundstone takes the stage in a night full of humor. Poundstone hosts the Maximum Fun podcast “No One Listens to Paula Poundstone,” a comedic outlook on life. Find the event on Facebook.

Victoria Victoria @ Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Head to Temple Emanuel for the Greensboro Jewish Festival that runs through the afternoon. Enjoy food, music, and educational activities. Tour Temple Emanuel’s sanctuary or shop a vendor market. Learn more at gsojfest.org.

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This Science Cafe features Jill Heinerth, an expert on photographing, filming and exploring caves. Heinerth shares tales from her many jobs, even going underwater to learn more about what lurks out of sight.

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Winston-Salem band Victoria Victoria holds a performance to celebrate the release of a new EP. The indie band’s album, titled When to Talk, When to Pray, explores spirituality and self-worth. Find the event on Facebook.

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Four questions for comedian Paula Poundstone

by Brian Clarey Comedian, author, lecturer, podcaster and perennial guest on National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait — Don’t Tell Me” Paula Poundstone has been engaged in comedy for 40 years.

She was discovered by Robin Williams in 1984,and made her debut on “Saturday Night Live” that same year. Her HBO specials have won Cable Ace Awards, and she’s been a spokesperson for the American Library Association since 2007. She’s active on Twitter, @paulapoundstone, and she’s recently released a rap song, “Not My Butterfinger,” which is available on iTunes and Spotify. She performs at the Carolina Theatre Saturday night.

A lot of other comedians make movies and TV shows, while your career includes books, the lecture circuit and a long-running association with National Public Radio.

Do you see yourself as an intellectual in the world of stand-up?

I’m willing to play it off that way, sure. Do you think so?

I’d love to do movies. I’ve done a little bit but not a lot of it — not because I’ve made some higher-plane choice. I have a pretty grueling road career and I can’t just sit around waiting to get that audition call, and so I don’t. The handful of things I’ve done that fall into that category is speaking, because I’ve been invited to do it.

But when I watch Bridesmaids — which is arguably the funniest movie ever made — there is a part of me that when I watch it, I laugh anyway but I’m steeped in jealousy when I watch. It looks like so much fun to be in an ensemble kind of thing. Instead I work at things that I don’t need someone else’s acceptance. Nothing can stop you from writing a book.

You don’t have to wait until someone says, “Okay,” to write a book.

I don’t fall into the “intellectual” category. I try to read literature and try to inform myself.

I read the Mueller Report. I try to keep up. But the truth is that with my sense of humor, I’ve never laughed harder than when I see someone with toilet paper stuck to his foot.

Some comics improvise, and some comics script everything. Most do a little of both. Where do you fall?

I have 40 years of material rattling around in my brain somewhere in my head, and I do two hours onstage. I figure the inside of my brain looks something like one of those arcade games when you step into a glass booth and they blow a bunch of money around you, and what you catch you keep. I think my brain looks like that.

My favorite part of the night is talking to the audience. I do the time-honored, “Where are you from, what do you do for a living?” I use that to set my sails. Whatever they say that reminds me of a piece of material, I might reach into my arcade game and pull it out.

Just as likely, or more likely, I say something unique to that night, because that’s my favorite part. I like making stuff up. I just plain don’t do the same show twice.

You’ve been doing stand-up for 40 years, through a golden age in the 1980s through to now. Why is stand-up still so popular?

Because laughter is the best thing for you. It just is. It’s great to laugh. I don’t know why nature gave it to us, but I think we’re the only living thing that has it. I think sometimes, maybe dogs and maybe racoons and, of course, monkeys and chimps. But I don’t think cats laugh.

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You talk about current events tickets and more information visit in your act, and also on NPR and carolinatheatre.com your podcast. Is there anything funny about the news these days?

It’s killing me! I swear to God I’m gonna get a class-action suit against Trump just for the digestive problems I have. It is literally making me sick.

I was not a good student, but I was there sometimes. I didn’t reach out and grab all that was offered me in the world of education. Which was entirely on me. But I do remember the three branches of government. Some teacher would draw them on the chalkboard, and you were so reassured. I think unconsciously all these years I have felt protected by the three branches of government, and all of a sudden now we’re not sure that it works. No

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one ever tested this the way this guy has. He’s like a rat — he finds every fucking hole. I’m on edge thinking that the three branches of government might not work, so what do we do now? It never occurred to anyone what would happen if the Congress was corrupted by the Executive Branch. And if the allegiance of the head of the Department of Justice was corrupted? No one thought of that. Our forefathers weren’t thinking, Do we need to put anything in there in case the president corrupts the DOJ and Judicial Branch? They thought it was overkill. Turns out it’s not; that can happen.

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Jay Wagner painted an inspirational picture of the city of High Point under his leadership during his concluding remarks at a candidate forum hosted by the city’s chamber of commerce.

“Since I’ve been mayor and during my time on council, especially the last five years, I’m so excited because this city has gone from a city where people said, ‘That’ll never happen here,’ to a city that is now saying, ‘What are we gonna do next?’” he said. “And the most gratifying thing to me is just the vibe of this city has changed. We have this attitude now that we can just do anything. And I believe we can do anything, as long as we work together.”

When it came time for Carlvena Foster, Wagner’s opponent, to speak, she asked the moderator to repeat the question.

“Concluding statement,” he said.

“Oh, I was listening,” Foster said, as she attempted to regain her footing.

“It was enthralling, wasn’t it?” Wagner said, displaying a wide grin.

Foster, who is 69, noted that she lived through segregation, building a case that she’s the candidate who can bring inclusion to High Point.

“I do credit the business community and the council with all they have been able to do,” she said. “I believe I could bring a different flavor to the council, and continue everything that has already been started. I think I could step into this seat tomorrow, and not miss a beat or lose any of the continuity, but bring this city together so that every citizen across this city can enjoy the same opportunities.”

Notwithstanding her spellbound reaction to Wagner’s closing statement, Foster took several opportunities to differentiate herself from her opponent during the mayoral panel in Business High Point’s candidate forum at High Point Theatre on Thursday [Oct. 24] for the city’s upcoming nonpartisan municipal election.

Her first opening came early in the panel when, Wagner, the Republican incumbent, posited that violence is the city’s most pressing issue.

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by Jordan Green A Democratic challenger makes a pitch for racial inclusion in her bid to unseat a Republican mayor buoyed by a rising tide of downtown growth and an upsurge of civic pride in High Point’s mayoral election.

“I do believe that the gun violence in our city is a big difference in this race,” said Foster, who is a Democrat. “As we know, most of the violence, or all of the shootings or killings have been in ZIP code 27260, and they have been people of color. I bring a different perspective because, quite obvious, I am a person of color. So, I am close to what’s happening in the community.

I believe that we have to get to the root of the violence in our community. The gun shootings, the murders are all caused by needs in the community. People want to think that they are all gang-related, that they are all drug-related.

Most of them are, but a lot of them are not. Some of them are domestic. Some of them are just street fights. Some of them are retaliation.”

As a solution to the program, Foster said city officials “have to devise some kind of a mechanism where people feel safe in pointing out the police, JORDAN GREEN and the authorities what’s hap- Carlvena Foster (left) and Jay Wagner, the two candidates for mayor of High Point, spoke at a panel hostedby Business High Point on Oct. 24. pening in the community.”

The starkest differences bethey do not have to fear for their life programs in the neighboring cities of tween the two candidates emerged over when they go to school, that they can do Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The whether High Point should establish its it with qualified teachers who are well initiative was championed by Bruce Daown school district after 26 years as part paid, and that they are equipped for vis, a third mayoral candidate who was of Guilford County Schools. life when they get out. And the percepeliminated in the primary.

Noting her previous tenure on the tion of the schools in High Point is that Responding to the same question Guilford County School Board, Foster maybe that’s not true. about what the city should do to support said it wouldn’t be in the city’s best “And so, what I called for in July was small business, Wagner said that High interest to set up its own school district. a study, an assessment, that we have Point once boasted a yacht-building But she said the city “should come up to take ownership of our schools in operation as an example of the city’s with a commission that partners with the High Point,” Wagner continued. “Even entrepreneurial heritage.

Guilford County commissioners and the though they’re run by nine people in “If you go to the farmer’s market on Guilford County Board of Education to Greensboro, we own our schools in High a Saturday morning you will see people identify the needs in High Point, come Point. We have to take ownership of who — they have tabletop businesses, up with viable solutions on how we can those kids and make sure they’re getting they have garage businesses,” he said. specifically address those needs.” that education. And the idea of separat“And we also have people in this city Wagner said he was glad he had ing from the school system is one option who know how to create businesses and injected the issue into the campaign by of many. I don’t know what the end to sell their products worldwide. asking for a study into the idea. result will be. But we’ve got to look into “We have to continue to reconsider “All of the kids in the public schools it, and we’ve got to do better.” our roots as an entrepreneurial city,” here in High Point, they’re our kids,” Foster also said as mayor she would Wagner added. “And the city governhe said. “And I want to make sure that establish a Minority Women Business ment under my leadership will support those kids are getting the best educaEnterprise office with a coordinator to that.” tion that they can get, that they can get ensure that businesses owned by people The two mayoral candidates both it in a school building that is well built of color and women have a fair shot at said they support three bond referenda and well maintained, that they can get government contracts, equivalent to the on the ballot, including $22 million for it in a school building that is safe, where

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sented the starkest contrast.

Moore called on parents to take more personal responsibility for children with behavioral challenges.

“There’s been a change,” Moore said.

“We’ve got a lot of younger people raising younger people. We have the challenges of single-parent families, fathers not active in the family. So, we need to team with our churches, our schools, all those organizations, and early-childhood education, to redirect the narrative and get the kids out on a better path early.”

Harman argued for “a systematic approach.”

“One of the things our foundation has started a conversation around is adverse childhood experiences with toxic stress and how that affects children and families,” he said. “It’s an effort of about 10 nonprofit organizations working together to try to figure out how to build a resilient High Point to connect people with resources. Families are going through difficult times and they need a little bit extra, so they can tap into these resources so they can thrive rather than just survive day to day.”

The candidates for the six ward seats agreed on many points, including addressing violence through mentorship programs, drug treatment, support for the police and backing an agency called High Point Community Against Violence to reduce recidivism. Various candidates talked about their involvement in the Greater High Point Food Alliance to reduce food insecurity. And many expressed enthusiasm for the Catalyst Project — the name given to the public investment in a downtown stadium to spur private investment.

Running for the Ward 1 seat vacated

by Jeff Golden are Willie H. Davis and Cyril Jefferson, both Democrats.

Running for the Ward 2 seat are incumbent Chris Williams and challenger Jerry Mingo, both Democrats.

Running for the Ward 3 seat are incumbent Monica Peters, unaffiliated, and Arshad Khan, a Democrat.

Running for the Ward 4 seat are incumbent Wesley Hudson, a Democrat, and challenger Jim Bronnert, a Republican.

Running for the Ward 5 seat are incumbent Vic Jones and challenger Leah Price, both Republicans.

And running for Ward 6 are incumbent Jason Ewing, a Republican, and challenger Michael Holmes, a Democrat.

Election Day is Nov. 5, but early voting is open across Guilford County through Nov. 1.

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streets and sidewalks, $21.5 million for parks and recreation, and $6.5 million for housing. Candidates for the two at-large seats and six ward seats also unanimously expressed support for the bonds.

The four at-large candidates all projected different emphases, even while there are few major issues that divide them.

Mason Garner, an unaffiliated candidate who has received the backing of outgoing at-large council member Don Scarborough, said she was inspired to run after helping with her father, Coy Williard’s unsuccessful mayoral campaign in 2012.

“I learned how the city worked, and at that point I was hooked,” Garner recalled. “I said, ‘One day, I want to help make those decisions to make our city a better place.’… I have the passion for our city. I have the ear to listen to what needs to be done for our whole city.”

Tyrone Johnson, a Democrat, said he wants to establish a police substation in an area with a high rate of gun violence.

“Also, extending public transportation and hours, and the routes,” he said. “We need to be able to get High Pointers to the jobs.”

Johnson also said he would support the creation of a Minority/WomenOwned Enterprise office.

Patrick Harman, an unaffiliated candidate, said his vision for High Point is a city “where people lean on each other, learn from each other and empower each other.” Harman cited the accomplishments his foundation, Hayden-Harman, has made over the past 10 years through partnerships with the city and civil society groups, including opening a park on Washington Street, establishing an after-school program, launching a business association that hosts an annual street festival, assisting with the John Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival, growing communities gardens and establishing a “micro-food hub.”

Britt Moore, a Republican candidate and the sole incumbent in the race, emphasized economic growth as the top priority for the city.

“I’ve always been a big advocate of private-sector growth,” he said. “I think it leads to opportunities that fall over into the other concerns we have, which are safety, jobs, transportation. And they all feed back into a vibrant, inclusive economy that is growing.”

Although all four candidates highlighted violence as a matter of concern, the approaches to addressing the problem articulated by Moore and Harman pre-

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Parent and school board opinions split on short-term suspension appeals

by Sayaka Matsuoka A recent proposal spearheaded by Guilford County Schools superintendent to implement an appeals process for short-term suspensions has been met with mixed reaction from parents as well as school board members.

vides more due process for students and making up 40.7 percent of the district’s parents. population. On the other hand, white Currently, there is already a system in students made up 11.2 percent of susplace to appeal long-term suspensions — pensions despite making up 32.5 percent that is, suspensions that last more than of the district.

10 days. That process involves a formal Both Watlington and Contreras A proposal to implement an appeals hearing before the school board and is pushed back against the claim that the process for short-term suspensions for already spelled out in board policy, acgoal of the policy is to decrease school Guilford County Schools has been met cording to Chief of Staff Nora Carr. suspensions or undermine principals’ with mixed reaction from parents as well School board members voted 6-3 durauthority during the Oct. 10 meeting. as some school board members. ing the Oct. 10 meeting “I don’t think there’s The change would allow for parents to seek public feedback any effort afoot to usurp and students who object to a short-term on the proposed policy for authority away from prin‘I don’t think suspension decision to appeal to superthe next 30 days. cipals and to not respect intendent Sharon Contreras’ designee.

A widespread petithe good work that they’re there’s any effort If they object to the designee’s decition opposing the policy doing,” Watlington said afoot to usurp sion, they can further appeal directly to change — started by during the meeting. “But Contreras. The superintendent’s decision Cathryn Campbell, an I think all of us can get it authority away would be final. The superintendent’s individual who works with wrong sometimes, and I from principals...’ designee would typically be the school exceptional children and can tell you that happens – Tony Watlington support officer, an individual who overis employed by Guilford and there are times where sees specific and supervises principals.

County Schools — alleges we do have to counsel The school support officers report to the that the superintendent schools to do something chief of schools, Tony Watlington. has been encouraging different because it’s not Those who oppose the new policy principals to “to reduce suspensions and appropriate.” claim that it will undermine the authorkeep students in class.”

According to state law, school disity of principals and assistant principals According to several studies contricts are not required to have appeals and create unsafe environments in ducted in the last decade, including a processes for short-term suspensions. If schools. Those in support say it pro2018 report by the US Government enacted, Guilford County Schools would Accountability Office, be the first in the state to do so, accordblack students, boys and ing to Watlington. students with disabilities “The state doesn’t require it but it’s are disproportionately up to each board of education,” he said disciplined in public during a phone interview. “Not only is it schools. The 2018 report in their purview to do so but it would be analyzed data from consistent with the Fourteenth Amendthe US Department of ment.”

Education from almost Watlington said that there are also every K-12 school in several districts in the rest of the country the country and found that have put an appeals process for that the disparities “were short-term suspensions in place. widespread and persisted A number of school board members regardless of the type oppose the policy, including District of disciplinary action, 4 representative Linda Welborn and level of school poverty, District 5 representative Darlene Garor type of public school rett, who argued that the policy would The Idiot Box Presents attended.” undermine principals’ authority and that Local data for Guilford due process already exists for students County Schools reflects under state and federal law.

The Ultimate Comic Challenge similar levels of dispro“It’s not due process because we are stand up comedy competition portionate discipline already doing what the Supreme Court 8:30 p.m. Friday, November 1st towards black students. says we need to do,” Welborn said in a According to data from phone interview on Oct. 25. “I’m all for Family Friendly Improv Comedy the NC Board of Educatreating all students the same. The issue 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 2nd. $5 tickets online tion, during the 2017-18 is, are children misbehaving? This will Improv Comedy 18 and Older school year, there were put more pressure on people to not deal 9:30 p.m. Saturday, November 2nd.

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“I cannot support this,” she said. “I’d like to see some real report on what the problems are you’re trying to address with this, because it’s not a due process right.”

District 3 representative Pat Tillman agreed during the board meeting, stating that the proposal was a “solution in search of a problem.”

District 7 representative Byron Gladden urged Contreras and Watlington to come up with a clear procedure for how the new rules would play out. In a phone interview, Gladden said that he wants to see a plan before he can support the proposal. He also said he was planning a town hall in early November to hear directly from constituents.

In a phone interview, Watlington said that a group of principals is currently working on creating a procedure for the proposal.

District 1 representative Dianne Bellamy-Small, District 6 representative Khem Irby and at-large board member Winston McGregor all supported the proposal, arguing the need for due process for parents and students.

During the board meeting, several individuals, including McGregor, Contreras and Watlington, referenced a high school student who was negatively affected because of a lack of an appeals process for short-term suspensions.

While neither the student nor the parent was ever named, Simonne Ritchy McClinton identified herself in an interview as the parent. She said her son, Jacob, was suspended in April of this year after reports of him “running through the halls inciting terroristic chaos” reached the principal at Grimsley High School, where he was a senior.

In reality, McClinton said that Jacob had put a Nike sports bag over his head to try to make a friend laugh and was seen by a freshman student in the halls who felt intimidated because his face was obscured. Jacob, who had never had any disciplinary actions against him before, was given a 10-day suspension by one of the school’s assistant principals and wasn’t allowed to argue his case, according to McClinton. After hearing her son’s side of the story, McClinton said she reached out to the principal, who was out of town at the time. When she didn’t hear back, she made a post on Facebook, which caused other parents to question the school’s decision to suspend Jacob. Eventually, McClinton reached out to school board members, the su-

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perintendent and Watlington before she cause of disrespect and noncompliance,” heard back from the principal who cut said the Rev. Cardes Brown Jr., president Jacob’s suspension short after seven days. of the Greensboro NAACP. “Well, that’s And despite the fact that the situation subjective. At one school you might turned out in McClinton and her son’s be suspended for those reasons but at favor, she says that many other students another, you might just say, ‘Don’t do it might not have the same luck. anymore.’”

“My kid is an advantaged, smart, Brown and others in the community middle-income white kid,” McClinton recently started their own petition supsaid in an interview. “But there are kids porting the proposal. out there that are in much Contreras argued worse situations. Those are Brown’s point during the the kids that you want to school board meeting.

‘Not hearing hear, the ones that don’t “Now, most of the time, have anyone fighting for when there’s an appeal and from kids is not them…. Not hearing from a parent sits down with the the answer.’ kids is not the answer.” administrator, the adminisUsing data from the US trator will take the time to – Simonne Ritchy Department of Education’s slowly gather the facts and McClinton Civil Rights Data Collecmost times they will pan tion, researcher Daniel Losout just fine,” she said. “But en looked at 2008-09 rates sometimes they will find, for North Carolina schools and found ‘Oh, there was more to this story,’ and that black students were suspended at they will work it out with the parent. But rates much higher than white students when suspensions are part of the permafor the same infractions. Examples innent record, the parent should have the cluded rates such as eight times as much right to make sure that everything has for cell-phone use, six times as much been done procedurally, correctly. This for dress-code violation, twice as much is the United States where we value fairfor disruptive behavior and 10 times as ness and due process as the foundation much for displays of affection. of our justice system.”

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Kay Hagan and the passing of Democratic centrism

It’s tough for reporters to gauge the substance of political campaigns in the best of circumstances.

Kay Hagan, a centrist Democrat who served in the North Carolina Senate for 10 years and a single six-year term in the US Senate, was especially difficult to pin down.

by Jordan Green I was perhaps not the best equipped for the job in 2008, the blue-wave election when Hagan would unseat Republican Elizabeth Dole while Barack Obama became the first and only Democratic presidential candidate to carry North Carolina since Jimmy Carter.

It probably didn’t help that I had written a lopsided story comparing Hagan unfavorably to her Democratic primary opponent, Jim Neal.

I was determined to write the definitive story of the Hagan campaign in July 2008, and I logged the miles to prove it. I showed up at an appearance at a gas station near the Friendly Center in Greensboro, where the candidate was supposed to chat with drivers, but instead spent most of her time ignoring proto-tea party hecklers. I got up at 5:30 a.m. to drive to Saluda to watch the candidate in a parade. I drove down to Charlotte to hear her speak to veterans. She never seemed to have time for an interview, but I finally cornered her in Charlotte, and I remember an aide nervously thrusting a voice recorder in between us to make sure I didn’t misquote her.

A former banker, Hagan was smart. Along with Linda Garrou of Forsyth County, Hagan was the chief budget writer when the Democrats controlled the state General Assembly. She was a cautious and pragmatic politician, and as the late journalist Mark Binker once observed, Hagan never mastered the easy banter of retail politics.

Reckoning with the news of her death on Monday at the age of 66, it’s hard to believe that it was only five years ago that Hagan lost her US Senate seat to Thom Tillis. Her centrist politics seem thoroughly out of place in this hyper-partisan age. She seems like a relic from another century, when in fact she was a contender in the last election cycle.

In truth, Hagan’s style of politics was already outdated when she took the national stage in 2008. Hagan’s victory party at the Greensboro Coliseum was an exhilarating moment for Democrats, but as UNCG economics professor Andrew Brod noted in a Facebook comment, “In a sense, however, it was also the night when Kay’s relative centrism suddenly went out of style. Obama’s election led Moscow Mitch and other congressional Republicans to veer rightward and adopt obstructionism as both a goal and tactic. That forced Democrats to unify, and yet their unity just compounded the political polarization of the era.”

Rather than forge a consensus to get things done, Hagan’s cautious politics seemed instead to constantly put her on the defensive.

The Democrats held the White House and both houses of Congress for only two years, just long enough to pass the Affordable Care Act, the stimulus act and the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.

Immigration reform was long overdue when Hagan joined the US Senate, and now more than a decade later federal inaction has opened the floodgates of xenophobic hate in the form of Donald

Former state Senator Kay Hagan passed away at the age of 66 on Monday.

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Trump’s continuous campaign of fearmongering and scapegoating.

It’s heartbreaking to recall that in December 2010, the House advanced the DREAM Act, which would have granted legal status to undocumented people who came to the United States as children.

Although Democrats held 56 of the 100 seats in the Senate, they fell five votes short of the 60-vote threshold needed to bring the DREAM Act up for a final vote. Among the five Democrats who broke ranks to kill the measure was Kay Hagan. By then, the 2010 midterm elections had already ordained that the GOP would take control of the House at the beginning of 2011.

It’s illuminating to look back at local journalist Ed Cone’s January 2010 interview with Hagan. Whether admirable or maddening, Hagan’s comments reveal a preoccupation with process and disinterest in overarching political objectives. At the time of the interview, there was an imminent special election in Massachusetts to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Cone asked whether a loss by Democratic candidate Martha Coakley would jeopardize passage of the Affordable Care Act. “I think people are talking about that,” Hagan responded. “I am anxiously awaiting for late Tuesday night, and then we’ll move on from there.”

But was there a contingency plan, in case Coakley lost, Cone asked.

“No,” Hagan responded.

A follow-up question by Cone about whether Congress should be acting with more urgency given the fragility of its majority prompted a ponderous excursion into arcana.

“I think what’s really interesting is the process that’s taking place in the US Senate, where just about every vote, whether it’s a procedural vote, whether it’s a nomination vote, whether it’s a Department of Defense appropriations bill, takes 60 votes,” Hagan said. “The filibuster [is not just] people talking, it’s the elapsed time of 32 hours before the clock starts again… [there are] very arcane rules within the US Senate from the standpoint of moving legislation.”

Hagan’s cautious politics could hold the line on a tolerable status quo for a while — until they didn’t any longer.

We won’t see her kind again.

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News of Tom Jarrell’s death by overtotal compared to 22 percent of the dose of heroin and fentanyl tore open state population. the narrative about opioids in the Triad, And yet, one gets the sense that, leaving nothing but loose story threads had this fate befallen a black judge, the in its wake. reaction might not have been quite the Jarrell was chief district court judge same. of Guilford County District Court — a A faction of Greensboroans who huge job, overseeing the adjudication knew the man — as seen on social of family law, juvenile cases, civil cases media threads and newspaper comment under $25,000 and non-juried criminal sections — don’t believe the narrative trials for misdemeanors and infractions. as evidenced by the police reports and Possession of heroin, in any quanthe state’s chief medical examiner. They tity, is a felony in North Carolina, and cannot see Tom Jarrell as a drug user, as such gets adjudicated in let alone a candidate for an Superior Court.

OD. We don’t He was a middle-aged, And this is why opioids well-to-do, mainstream white understand, have become a crisis: We guy with a wife and kids who don’t understand, or won’t alor won’t allow low ourselves to understand, no doubt have been experiencing traumatic stress after who the victims are. Not all ourselves to this incident. Our deepest junkies are on the street. understand, sympathies go out to them.

Moneyed white guys like who the And among the journalisTom Jarrell can fall into tic set, his reputation was as heroin use a number of ways. victims are. something of a boy scout: The most common trap is tough, fair, rigorous, thora pain prescription that can ough. morph into heroin use after the scrip He did not fit the profile — or, at runs out, but there are other paths to it. least, the perception of it.

Many of them have the discipline and Of 1,952 opioid deaths in North the means to manage such a habit.

Carolina in 2017, the latest full data Perhaps further forensics will reveal set, 1,677 of them were white. That’s more evidence in the death of Tom 85.9 percent. Demographics bear Jarrell that will unburden the minds some of this weight — the state itself is of his friends and family. But for those 70.6 percent white — but not all of it. watching the opioid crisis unfold from a Conversely, just 192 African Americans distance, his apparent heroin use is not overdosed in 2017, 9.8 percent of the so hard to comprehend.

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Beer and candy pairings you didn’t know you needed just in time for Halloween

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alloween isn’t just for kids. Those of us of legal drinking age — and with no desire to squeeze into a sexy Bob Ross costume or paint our faces into a Marvel movie character of choice — can still participate in the holiday in a very seminal way. It’s easy, once you figure out that candy and beer go together.

Here are a few guidelines: Rules don’t exist. if you like it, it’s a good pairing. Consider the intensity, texture and flavor of both your candy and your beer. IPAs and imperials are big, strong beers with a large, sometimes overwhelming flavor presence and higher alcohol content. You need a candy to match that, one that can take a flavor punch. Smooth beers, like stouts, go well with creamy textures, like white chocolate, while highly carbonated beers and seltzers can help cut a sour candy.

by Nikki Miller-Ka After extensive research and taste testing, I have come up with a list of local beer and classic candy pairings. Every brewery currently open in the Triad has a place on the list. This was a true test of wit, stout and imperial proportions.

As a supertaster and culinary artisan, I am proud to present your weekend to-do list while you’re snacking on candy at your favorite brewery.

Remember: No matter what you end up with, you’re still drinking beer and eating candy and that’s one of the best pairings there is.

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Fiddlin’ Fish: Black Mountain Chocolate Stout This classic pairing of chocolate and stout does not need much of an explanation beyond the fact that it is, quite simply, made in heaven.

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Foothills: Hoppyum IPA Natty Greene’s: Wildflower Witbier This buttery candy also works well with IPAs, pulling out the otherwise-hidden malt flavors. The intensity of the candy corn’s sweetness will be tempered by the witbiers, which will also bring out the candy’s caramel flavors.

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South End: The ‘Boro, American Brown Ale Dark in color, with sweet, caramel aromas and rich, roasty malt flavors, this ale cuts through the caramel and the sugar even while the candy’s sweetness pulls out the caramel in the beer. The peanuts act as a sprinkling of coarse salt to finish this combo.

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Liberty: Blackberry Wheat Brown Truck: Dry Hopped Saison The tart, sweet notes of both beers complement the juicy, bursting fruit flavors of Starburst without overwhelming the palate.

Little Brother: Do Not Pass Gose (blood orange and cranberry) Joymongers: Lemon Lime Hard Seltzer “It’s not all beer and skittles” is a British phrase meaning it’s not all fun and games, and it’s true. But the candy pairs well with the flavors of the rainbow, and creates an impressive range of zesty, fruity notes not present in Skittles alone.

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Incendiary: Sweet Potato Porter Full-bodied, boozy and bold, this pairing has the double combination of a crisp, sugary shell and milk chocolate to match with the roasted grain, chocolate and toffee flavor profiles of this beer.

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Hoots Beer Co.: Zinzendorf Oktoberfest I’m not sure if this candy still shows up in Halloween treat bags, but the strong caramel flavors in both the beer and the candy set the stage for a double helping of rich, caramel malts on the palate with a light honey-almond finish.

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Wiseman: Scoop Dog Cream Ale Leveneleven Brewing: Witbier Peanut butter and chocolate are perfect on their own accord, but the fresh and crisp hops of both the cream ale and the witbier freshen up the palate after eating the candy.

Goofy Foot: In The Pocket Pale Ale Gibb’s Hundred Brewing: Blind Man’s Holiday American Pale Ale Small Batch: Lemon Man IPA The sour candies are vibrantly tart and juicy, which brings out the sweetness in the ales. Aggressively hoppy for most, these beers have an initial floral taste that rolls into a piney-citrus flavor on the palate that cuts through the sour of the Sour Patch Kids.

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Preyer: Peelin’ Good Citrus Wheat The mild, tart-yet-sweet notes of the candy melt into the mild hop profile of this citrus-focused beer.

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According to the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild, our state boasts the largest number of craft breweries in the South with more than 300 locations. And soon, we’re about to have a few more. Here are just a few of the recently opened, or soon-to-be open, breweries in the Triad.

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SouthEnd Brewing Co.

117B W Lewis St. Soft opened in lateOctober, grand opening on Friday from noon to midnight. Find on Facebook.

SouthEnd Brewing Co. opened its doors last week and takes up space in downtown Greensboro in the building that once housed Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co. before Gibb’s moved to its new location on State Street last year. Now, father-son team Eric and Seth Kevorkian have moved in, bringing with them a brand-new kitchen, extended patio and crowlers!

“We opened the brewery because the space was vacant and it’s a very compelling place to put a brewery,” co-owner Eric says. “Southend is developing rapidly and the absence of Gibb’s Hundred created an opportunity for a taproomstyle brewery.”

Kevorkian, who has been brewing beer at home for the past few years, says he hopes to bring new life to the location, namely with the brewery’s new beers and pub-style food such as wings, brisket, crab cakes, chips and paninis — all made in-house. So far, they’ve been able to fill their 14 taps with a dozen of their beers as well as two ciders from Bull City Ciderworks out of Durham. The brewery’s most popular selections include the Flying Hyena Pale Ale, the Wendover River Blonde Ale and the Intrepid Goal IPA. While Kevorkian doesn’t envision having a large distribution of their beers, he says the option to take beer home in crowlers — large, 32-ounce cans — should satisfy customers for now.

“The ultimate goal is to be a strong and welcoming spot in the community,” he says.

Oden Brewing

804 W. Gate City Blvd. Opening in November 2019. Find on

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Using the building their great, great grandfather William Lafayette Oden built in 1936, Mary Garner Oden hopes to revitalize a section of Gate City Boulevard with the opening of her family’s new brewery, Oden Brewing, this fall.

“We had this building and we wanted to restore it and keep it really cool and give back to this community,” Oden says.

Oden says her family, which includes her parents Jan and Bill, owns four houses around the brewery that they eventually want to use to build out a whole Oden brewing campus — complete with a restaurant, a café and maybe even an Airbnb.

But for now, they’re just focused on opening the brewery.

Oden says that the family has done what they can to preserve the interior of the building, which once housed the Buffalo Rock Co. bottling plant.

“We’re keeping the character and everything intact,” she says. “It’s all the old brick — the floors are concrete. But you can tell they’ve been through some things. It’s cool and aged.

We’re trying to keep it as historic as possible.”

Oden hopes the historic aspect of the space as well as the beers will bring customers through the doors and life back to the building.

“We’re really passionate about the space and the beers and we hope that that shines through,” she says.

Location TBD. Planned opening date in summer of fall 2020.

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Drawing from his family’s French and Belgian roots, Jordan DuBois hopes to bring craft beer to the northwestern outskirts of Forsyth County next fall.

“There’s a lack of options for locals in that area,” says DuBois, the owner of Brouwerij DuBois (pronounced “browery”.

“There are some bars and restaurants with craft beers but there’s no brewery. It felt like a good opportunity.”

While he hasn’t settled on a location yet, DuBois says he’s looking for a small plot of land to build a small taproom and brewhouse with enough outdoor space for a garden to grow his own hops. He wants it to feel more like a quaint vineyard than a rowdy brewery.

“I want it to be comfortable,” he says. “Not necessarily hustling and bustling.”

DuBois, who has been brewing beer at home for about five years, hopes to focus mostly on farmhouse style ales like saisons and will be the producing beer using a manual onebarrel brew system. No buttons or touchscreens here. And that’s exactly how he wants it, he says.

“My great grandfather came from Belgium and settled in Iowa and my mom is from a farming family,” DuBois says. “[Farming has] been in my family my whole life.

“It’s gonna be a lot of work but that’s the way I want it to be where I can literally have my hands on every batch,” he continues. “It’s not necessarily city life. It can move a little bit slower and that fits the style of beer.”

Radar Brewing Company

216 E. Ninth St. Opening this year. Find on Facebook.

Radar Brewing Co. owners Aaron Wall, Aaron Sizemore and Eric Peck aren’t new to the Triad beer scene. All three have worked in local breweries like Natty Greene’s and Foothills for the last decade or so. Now, they’re starting their own business in Winston-Salem.

“Aaron Sizemore and I have been brewing together since the late ’90s,” Wall says. “All that time we’ve been taking meticulous notes. We didn’t always know that we would be translating those over to a commercial setting.”

Now that they’ve found their own space in which to create, Wall says they’re changing things up a bit. Namely, Wall says that there are no plans for the brewery to do any distribution of their beers.

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our facility, and a lot of care and thought has gone into the sensory elements of that space,” Walls says. “Whether it’s visual, sound, touch. We really want the Radar Beer experience to be actually coming to our brewery and experiencing it.”

To draw customers in, he says they plan to host events and unique pairings with food trucks too. But in the end, he hopes that the beer and the physical space speak for themselves.

“We’ve created the space with the things we really enjoy, and we’ll create the beers from the same flavor approach as well,” he says.

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Giving back to the community will be a central point in Paddled South Brewing’s business model. As teachers, husband and wife David and Amy Nissen understand the importance of community as it relates to their new business.

“We want to be known as a community brewery,” David says. “We’re rooted here.

This is a special place to her and to me.”

While the duo hasn’t found a space for Paddled South to call home yet, David hopes to infuse the interior with outdoorsy details like river rocks embedded in the bars and walls painted like mountains. The two also plan to host events like running clubs as well as charity drives at least once a month to benefit local organizations.

“We just want people to view us as a space where they can come and hang out,” David says.

As for the beer, he says they’ll have all of the usuals like IPAs, blondes, stouts and lagers but that those who want to try them will have to come to the brewery to do so.

“We’d much rather be like ‘If you want this beer, you have to stop in High Point and try it,’” he says.

For those that want to take beers home, he’ll offer a crowler option.

“Our goal is to make good beer at a reasonable price and give people a place where their family can hang out and to give back to the community,” David says.

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ise Man Brewing may as well house a forest on top of its taproom.

Customers pull up barstools and order IPAs and other craft brews, while above them solar panels cover a leveled roof. The deep-blue metal reflects on the concrete and provides the Winston-Salem brewery and taproom with about half of its daily electricity.

Wise Man taproom manager Dan Rossow says the system went live about a year ago, around Halloween. The solar panels were laid out by Charlotte-based Renu Energy Solutions. Even though the process, including installation and paperwork, took a year, the staff at Wise Man Brewing believed the building was optimally designed for a more environmentally sustainable source of power.

“Our roof is big, flat, and there’s no shade around,” Rossow said. “Our location presents us with a lot of unfiltered sunlight.”

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Beside the bar, a television screen projects a graph of the daily energy generated from the panels, with a peak in production just after 12 noon. The screen also displays the overall efficiency of the system. Over the past year, the solar panels have averted 74,488.59 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions — the equivalent of planting 1,876 trees. The brewery

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and taproom still remain partially on the grid, however, to a spotlight in springtime. The flavor profile features roasted stabilize power and avoid outages, which can potentially ruin barley behind hints of caramel, biscuit and fruit. an entire brew.

“We’ve been making it since essentially Aside from marking the anniversary of the beginning.” Rossow said. “It’s kind of a the solar panels, October also brings Wise cult favorite.”

Find out more about Wise Man its first victory from the Great AmeriWise Man’s environmental tilt opened can Beer Festival. Outraged Daughters, up opportunities for other awards. Earlier Man Brewing Company at an Irish Red Ale, won gold during Wise in the year, the solar panels earned a Third wisemanbrewing.com.

Man’s second year of submitting brews to Place victory in the microbrewery category the festival. A quote from a Celtic queen, of the Brews from the Sun competition, a Boudica, gave the brew its name. contest from Solar United Neighbors that “I am fighting as an ordinary person for my lost freedom, my only allows solar-powered breweries as contestants. bruised body, and my outraged daughters,” it reads.

Currently, Wise Man is nominated for the Piedmont EnvironThe award-winning beer gets requested year round but gets mental Alliance’s Green Business of the Year award. Rossow

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Wise Man’s staff prides itself on using recycled and reclaimed furniture like the bars that hang from the ceiling.

Wood from around the warehouse-like space that could be salvaged was transformed into the tables. Bars that once blocked old windows now hang from the ceiling, from which the lights dangle. Adding a bit of color as a background, chicken wire and glass from other windows became the menu that sits behind the bar.

Rossow mentions that the checklist by Piedmont Environmental Alliance leaves them with a host of ideas. The taproom currently uses glassware as much as possible to avoid plastics, but he says reducing or eliminating single-use plastic remains a goal to work towards in their mission for more sustainable beer.

“We are learning,” Rossow said, “and constantly trying to make improvements.”

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says that the brewery has used the organization’s checklist as a resource, and has also worked with Wake Forest University’s sustainability program to design a more effective recycling can.

Beside the front door, the neon-green design stands out against the warm, reddish hues in the taproom. It towers over the trash can, with its front side displaying a lineup of cans to illustrate where guests can recycle.

Wise Man’s view on recycling plays into other aspects of their business too, including the very foundation and design of the taproom. The history of the building that Wise Man now occupies lent itself to reusing materials.

“This is about a 90-year-old building.” Rossow said. “It was a wholesale store called Angelo Brothers for years.”

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