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A better Best of…

It’s taken us six years, but Triad City Beat is finally getting into the readers’ poll game.

It’s an altweekly standard, a

by Brian Clarey fantastic resource that readers can use all year long and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the people, places and things that make our cities what they are.

We’re calling it Best of the Beat, with apologies to Offbeat Publisher Jan Ramsey, and as always, we’re doing things a little differently than people might be used to.

We envision the Best of the Beat to be more of a bracket-type contest. As opposed to just dumping the whole thing out at once, we’re beginning with a poll centered on Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Early next year we will do a poll for Guilford County and the cities of Greensboro and High Point. And then, in the fall of 2021, our winners and new nominees will face off in the Best of the Triad edition.

This process allows us to really center on the cities in our coverage area, which exist fairly independently of each other, and give more places an opportunity to win.

We’re doing things a little differently on the back end, too.

As with all readers’ polls, we encourage campaigning in storefront windows and on social media (email me for more info on that). But unlike so many clickbait Best of competitions, we allow each reader to vote once — not once an hour, not once a day, but just once per email in the nomination phase, and again in the final voting. Sure, you can gin up a bunch of fake emails and use them to vote a bunch of times, but trust me on this: I will know, and I will have the power to invalidate your votes.

Because if the numbers are skewed, what’s the point?

And I know from running projects like this in my previous job that readers sometimes don’t pay attention to details.

So, the list must be curated to ensure that the Best New Restaurant is indeed a new restaurant, that the Best Original Band is not, in fact, a cover band, that the Best Hair Stylist winner gives a nod to the salon where they work.

We’re striving for accuracy and usefulness, as well as transparency in the process so you can trust the results.

As I’ve mentioned Winston-Salem/Forsyth nominations are open now at best-ofthe-triad.com. We’d appreciate your input as we search for the Best of the Beat.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK At this point, it has to be the establishments, too. They can’t just cop out.

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CITY LIFE Sept. 17-20

by Michaela Ratliff

THURSDAY Sept. 17

Chow Downtown @ Downtown (GSO) 11 a.m.

Your favorite restaurants are offering a variety of specials for you to enjoy during this year’s Restaurant Week. To view a list of participating restaurants and their specials, visit downtown GSO’s website.

Aussie and Border Collie Takeover @ Doggos Dog Park & Pub (GSO) 7 p.m.

FashionExxpo Discussion Panel @ Mixxer (W-S) 7 p.m.

As WS Fashion Week approaches, don’t miss this opportunity to ask your burning questions to this panel of entrepreneurs including designer Antonina Whaples and director and founder of WS Fashion Week Nikita Wallace. Visit Eventbrite to register for the event.

The Lion King and Pulp Fiction @ the Drive at Winston-Salem Fairgrounds (W-S) 7:45 p.m.

This week, The Lion King and Pulp Fiction are playing on the big screen. Advance ticket purchases for this socially-distanced movie experience are highly encouraged and can be purchased from the fairground’s website.

Oktoberfestbier Release @ Joymongers Brewing Co. (GSO) 12 p.m.

Described as a “malty German-style dark gold-amber lager with light initial malty sweetness and a dry finish,” this year’s Oktoberfestbier is being released on the first day of Oktoberfest in Munich. Father + Sons Gourmet Weiners food truck will be in attendance providing meals to pair with your beverage. Online ordering from the taproom is available on their website beginning 9/18 at 12 p.m.

SUNDAY Sept.20

Yoga on the Deck @ Festival Lake Park (HP) 8 a.m.

SATURDAY Sept. 19 It’s time for another takeover, this time for the Aussies and Border Collies. Admission for members is free. If you’re not a member, don’t worry! Day passes are half off.

Humans must be 21 to enter. Before you go, be sure to check out the house rules on Doggos’ website.

Fort Maria @ Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (W-S) 7 p.m.

Grab your blanket, lawn chair and mask and head to SECCA’s back lawn for an outdoor screening of Fort Maria, the story of a woman named Maria searching for her own identity after growing up diversely.

Filmmakers Cagney Gentry and Thomas Southerland will be in attendance for a Q&A. To purchase tickets, visit SECCA’s website.

National Dance Day 2020 Virtual Celebration (GSO) 10 a.m.

This year, National Dance Day will feature pre-recorded dance performances filmed at various downtown parks. There will also be an interactive temporary art installation in LeBauer Park available for some time after the event. The event will be livestreamed from Greensboro Downtown Parks, Inc. social media platforms like Facebook.

Shelter & Rescue Dog Show and Pet Adoption Fair @ Oak Hollow Festival Park (HP) 10 a.m.

FRIDAY Sept. 18

12th annual Charity Day @ Tidal Wave Auto Spa (HP) 8 a.m.

If your car’s due for a wash, pull up to Tidal Wave on charity day! A portion of the day’s sales will be donated to the United Way of Greater High Point. For more information, visit Tidal Wave’s Facebook page.

Look no further than this doggo filled event for your next furry friend. Many rescues and shelter dogs need a forever home. Make it yours!

All are welcome at this free yoga session hosted by Humbled Warriors. Relax and unwind with gentle stretches, poses and breathing exercises designed to have you feeling your best physically and mentally.

Visit this link to register.

Jazz Shoebox Brunch @ the Historic Magnolia House (GSO) 11 a.m.

Each Sunday this month, the Historic Magnolia House will be hosting a jazz brunch to celebrate the launch of their new Magnolia Shoebox Meal program to benefit local schools and communities. The event will be outdoors, but tours of the house will be available. To register, visit the event page.

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Coronavirus in the Triad:

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(as of Wednesday, Sept. 16, compared to last week)

Documented COVID-19 diagnoses NC

188,030 (+8,498)

Forsyth

6,694 (+213)

Guilford County

7,842 (+475)

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COVID-19 deaths NC

3,154 (+191)

Forsyth

94 (+10)

Guilford

176 (+2)

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167,257 (+10,605)

Forsyth

5,957 (+272)

Guilford

4,537 (+347)

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918 (+2)

Forsyth

18 (+1)

Guilford

637 (+23)

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to a field near the Westerwood neighborhood and kissed her. After that they started secretly seeing each other and having sex. When her boyfriend found out shortly after, Feldman broke things off with Hall. She told him she wasn’t going to have sex with him anymore but still saw him at parties and around town. A few years later, in 2014, after a breakup with her most recent boyfriend, Hall messaged her a few times. She didn’t respond. But on one particularly emotionally difficult night, Feldman reached out to Hall as a friend.

“I was feeling really alone and sad and I told him I just wanted some company,” she said. “I asked him if he wanted to come over and watch a movie.”

Hall arrived at the house where Feldman was living off Friendly Avenue and they went into her bedroom to watch the movie on Hall’s iPad. “At first everything seemed cool and normal,” she said. “I said, ‘Hey thanks for coming over here. I’ve been really sad with my breakup.’”

When she went to start the movie, Feldman said Hall started grabbing her.

“I told him, ‘I’m not trying to do that,’” she said. “But he said, ‘What did you think was going to happen if you invited me over this late?’”

Although she expressed that she didn’t want to have sex, Feldman said Hall held her down and forced himself into her.

She said he was strong, and she couldn’t fight him off. When he finished, he left the house. Afterwards, she confronted Hall on Facebook Messenger and told him that he had raped her. A few days later, Hall admitted to assaulting Feldman in his response.

“I’m sorry I wronged you,” he wrote.

“I will accept responsibility for pursuing it after you said no. And making you do something you didn’t plan to do….

I’m sorry for coercing you into having sex….”

For the next few years, Feldman would continue to see Hall in bars, but said she no longer felt comfortable in Greensboro. She moved to New York in 2017. Two years later, she moved back to North Carolina.

“I didn’t know what to do because this person was my friend,” Feldman explained. “I thought that maybe it was my fault…. I had a lot of guilt about this.”

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a couple of times in California, I could sense when things were off. Lorenzo had a big penis, so often times when we had After McKnight shared those first sex it hurt. I remember trying to tell him stories on Facebook, her friend Alexa to stop and pushing him away and he Feldman reached out to her in a private wouldn’t heed that. He would push my message. hands away or he would push forward.”

“Has Lorenzo ever made you feel McKnight also recalled asking Hall to unsafe?” she asked. change positions because she was in pain McKnight immediately knew who but said he didn’t listen to her.

Feldman was talking about and began “I didn’t remember it being that agrecalling the details of her past relationgressive before,” she said. “I remember ship with Lorenzo Hall. He was a musifeeling scared in that moment. And cian, a bartender in a local restaurant, when I get scared, sometimes I hunker and she knew that some other friends down for fear of more retaliation.” had been involved with him, too. She In 2012, the US Justice Department then looked back on her interactions updated its definition of rape: “The with Hall and in hindsight recognized a penetration, no matter how slight, of the number of red flags from her time with vagina or anus with any him. She reached back body part or object, or out to Feldman, and they oral penetration by a sex shared their experiences. organ of another person, McKnight met Lorenzo without the consent of the Hall around 2009, when victim.” she was 22 years old. She The department’s was close to graduating definition also clarifies that from UNCG and encoun“physical resistance is not tered Hall at College Hill required on the part of the Sundries, where she went – Devon McKnight victim to demonstrate lack to hang out with friends of consent.” and drink.

McKnight realized she “I remember he was had been raped by Hall, but said she either chasing me or he would come find hadn’t known it until her conversation me,” McKnight said. “If I left the bar, I with Feldman. would get messages from him at like 3 or She said she never confronted Hall 4 a.m. like, ‘Where did you go?’” about their interactions until recently, Eventually, she started a casual onwhen dozens of other allegations against and-off sexual relationship with him; she him surfaced on Instagram. One of would often go to his apartment nearby those stories came from Alexa Feldman. after they left the bar. The encounters Feldman said she met Hall around the were exclusively at night and never same time that McKnight did in 2008. developed into a relationship. In 2012, She was 19 at the time and connected McKnight left for graduate school in with Hall through her then boyfriend, California, returning to Greensboro five who was a musician. Feldman said Hall years later. In 2017, she said, she did not paid a lot of attention to her after they want Hall to know she was back. met, despite the fact that he knew she “That told me that my instinct about had a boyfriend, and would often share the sexual relationship that we had personal details about his life. before was not good,” she said. “I didn’t “He’s such a charming person and know how to articulate that. I knew this everyone thought he was a cool guy, so wasn’t good for me.”

I didn’t have a reason to not be friends Despite the fact that she kept a with him,” Feldman said. “He tried to distance from her old friends in the bar make me feel like we were really close. I scene, Hall soon found out that McKthink he made everyone feel like that.” night was back in Greensboro and mesThey eventually started hanging out saged her. She ignored him at first but one-on-one as friends when Hall coneventually gave in and started seeing him fessed that he had feelings for her. again. But this time it was different than “He said he wished my boyfriend before, she said. wasn’t around,” Feldman said.

“Because I had matured more,” On her 21st birthday, Hall took her out McKnight said. “I had been assaulted

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It started on Instagram.

Devon McKnight was cycling through users’ stories on the app when she came across a series of written allegations against multiple individuals in the Greensboro community. She watched screenshot after screenshot and story after story document women’s various encounters with the many accused, allegations that ranged from sexual harassment to rape. Almost immediately, she began reposting the stories to her account as well.

“As a person that had been following rape culture and callout culture, these ideas were in my brain,” McKnight said.

“I was like, Okay, here we go. I need to support this.”

She shared the stories on Facebook too, and started getting private messages in her inbox from strangers about what abusers had done to them.

That was in mid-July.

Since then, more than 50 survivors in the Greensboro area have shared more than 100 stories on various social media platforms, and at one point, publicly released a list of more than a dozen abusers in the Triad. Individuals, as well as bars and restaurants where accused perpetrators allegedly victimized women, have been called out.

A newly formed group called the NC Safety Alliance is collecting survivors’ stories and navigating the prospect of accountability, what it would look like for a community dealing with sexual assault.

The alliance continues to operate in the same space the movement started: on Instagram. The Greensboro account has more than 1,300 followers and has inspired offshoots in Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

The Greensboro and Raleigh accounts have the largest followings, but all eight follow a similar model: sharing anonymous stories on their profiles and listing demands for accountability from bar and restaurant business owners.

The problem of sexual violence, it’s clear, isn’t confined to a singular place.

And often, the movement starts with just one person sharing their story.

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On July 12, Feldman shared details of her assault on an Instagram story, speaking out publicly for the first time. That set off a chain reaction: messages started pouring into her inbox from individuals with similar stories about Hall and others in the Greensboro community who they said had assaulted them. While Hall is the only individual named for this story, dozens of abusers have been called out by the Greensboro community including men, women and gendernonconforming individuals of all races, sex and ages. The survivors also range in demographics.

After sharing anonymous accounts from other survivors on their personal Instagram profiles, McKnight and Feldman found that the volume of stories was too much for either of them to handle individually. They grew anxious reading other survivors’ traumas while figuring out how to navigate their own, all while coping with the pandemic.

“The quickness with which it all spread and burst open really ignited our fire and was like, Holy shit, this is so huge,” McKnight said. “This is way bigger than we could have ever imagined.”

Mutual friends noticed the work that

‘This is way bigger than we could have ever imagined.’

Charlotte organizer told TCB. “It already feels like a friendship.”

Most of the organizers of the alliances didn’t know each other before starting the work. Almost all identify as women, and have developed close relationships with each other through constant communication. They try to track the movements of the accused perpetrators and give each other a heads up when it seems like one might be coming to their city.

The Charlotte organizer told TCB they have gotten dozens of stories since they started their accounts. They range from one-time assaults to habitual emotional or physical abuse by partners.

Most are stories from the past, but that’s understandable, said the Charlotte organizer.

“That trauma doesn’t just go away,” they said. “It’s like breaking up with a boyfriend. It still hurts. The way we navigate through society becomes different as a result of our of sexual assault.”

Often times, reading other people’s accounts brings up personal trauma for the organizers, which can be emotionally distressing.

“I sit here, and I just want to hug these people,” the Charlotte organizer said. “It’s terrible. It does bring up those memories again, but knowing that I’m helping them, it’s made everything fine.

It’s been hard but sometimes we’re the only outlet that these survivors have.”

According to data by the Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network, only 230 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to the police. For those who did not report, 20 percent said they chose not to go to the police because of fear of retaliation and 13 percent said it was because they didn’t believe the police would do anything to help.

Feldman said after she was raped by Hall, she and one of the other survivors tried to tell others in her community, including some of his friends. They asked for support but because Hall was so beloved, people didn’t take them seriously, she said.

Many of the assaults they’re speaking out about took place before the #MeToo movement, when conversations about consent weren’t as commonplace. Survivors said they didn’t know how or who to tell their stories to — until now.

“This is some of the most gratifying work I’ve ever done,” Feldman said.

“To see that other people are feeling the same way and being able to say my name and his name…. It’s the scariest shit I’ve ever done, but it was so freeing…. Once something’s come out, I don’t hold back. It’s like a fucking fire,

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they were doing and decided a single nymity, said there are four individuals account focused on sexual assault in working together on their account and Greensboro would be more efficient, that they are hoping to form a nonprofit. alleviating some work from Feldman and That way, they said, they can raise funds McKnight. That’s when the NC Safety for survivors and provide legal counsel Alliance was born. for those individuals who wish to pursue A member of the Greensboro alliance charges against their abusers. Funds reached out to an employee with the NC could also be used to help survivors Coalition Against Sexual Assault, or NC relocate out of an abusive home or leave CASA, and found that other cities were a dangerous job. The Raleigh alliance looking to do something similar as well. also wants to have legal backing if any The Raleigh chapter formed at almost individuals who are accused decide to the same time as Greensboro’s. press charges against the alliance, which Now, the organizers almost happened a few of each safety alliance weeks ago in Raleigh. all communicate in a Like in Greensboro, group chat to ask each after the Raleigh Instaother questions about gram account was starthow to navigate posted, dozens of individuals ing the stories and how started sharing their acto help survivors. The counts of sexual assault. alliance has come up Many of the individuals with a list of resources named the same abuser for survivors, and they and after sharing their – Devon McKnight have a standard Google accounts, the alliance reForm which individuceived a cease-and-desist als can use to submit from the abuser’s lawyer. their accounts. They keep the stories The lawyer said the published accounts for 48 hours to allow those who submit damaged the individual’s reputation and to change their mind if they want, and that it was causing him financial stress. then they post the stories on the InstaA lawyer for the alliance said that they gram feed. Some alliance branches post didn’t have a case, but that a countersuit pictures of the accused while others would likely be extremely costly. In the choose to only name them. end, the accused dropped the cease and For Feldman and McKnight, they said desist. that naming Hall as well as others was When that happened, the Raleigh difficult and scary at first but ultimately organizer said they didn’t initially know said that they did it to keep the commuwhat to do. They work as a bartender by nity safe. trade and most of the other organizers “We were threatened lots,” McKnight are also survivors of sexual assault who said. “But we thought it was most imstarted advocating for others based on portant to alert the community of these their own experiences. None of them are names.” legal experts who have experience dealAnd when they are threatened, they ing with sexual-assault allegations. But try to talk to those who are angry and try that’s the norm, said Monika Johnsonto explain their goal and why they are Hostler, the executive director of NC sharing the stories.

CASA. The organizers of the alliances also “I would tell you that 99 percent of believe that their submission process people who do this type of work are eliminates those who might try to submit survivors,” Johnson-Hostler said. “The a false report. movement of any injustices generally The Google Form asks individuals to starts with people who are most affected create a personal passcode if they need by it.” to reassess their story or make changes.

The organizer of the Charlotte alliIt also includes a legal disclaimer letance, who spoke on condition of anoting people know that if they choose to nymity, is also a sexual-assault survivor seek legal action against their abusers, who started working as the sole individtheir stories may be used as evidence. ual behind the Charlotte account about The guidelines for submitting also urge a week ago. As the only person for the individuals to “tell the truth to the best Charlotte area, the organizer said they of their ability,” that “all stories must be get overwhelmed with stories but that the firsthand accounts,” and to “avoid exagorganizers of the other alliances check in geration, hyperbole and speculation.” regularly, reminding them to take breaks An organizer for the safety alliance in if they need to.

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ers who had also been assaulted by him.

According to the two survivors, more than a dozen individuals have reached out to them with their own sexual assault or harassment stories involving Hall.

Despite admitting to the assault shortly after it happened, when Feldman shared her story publicly on Instagram a few weeks ago, Hall reached out to her again, asking her why she was accusing him of sexual assault.

“So, you’re accusing me of sexual misconduct online?” Hall wrote in a July 12 text to Feldman. “I don’t understand where that’s coming from. I definitely don’t appreciate it. If you want to clarify why you would say that, I would love to listen.”

Reached by phone, Hall told TCB he didn’t think it was “wise” to comment for this story.

For a while, Feldman and McKnight considered taking their accounts to the police but decided they didn’t want to have the legal system involved. Instead, they chose to pursue accountability in their own way.

“We just don’t believe in the prison system or the legal system, especially with sexual violence,” McKnight said.

“And we don’t see pressing charges [as] healing anyone or anything.”

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The role bars, restaurants and colleges play

In addition to naming individuals on social media, Greensboro’s safety alliance has also been vocal about calling on bars and restaurants to hold them accountable for their roles in perpetuating rape culture. In Greensboro, College Hill Sundries and M’Coul’s Public House have been named repeatedly. The first is a divey bar on the outskirts of the UNCG campus, while the other, an Irish pub, has been a community staple in the heart of downtown for more than a decade.

“At this point, it has to be the establishments, too,” Feldman said. “They can’t just cop out.”

The alliance’s argument for calling out these establishments, they say, is that they either have a history of overserving their customers, of having employed abusers or creating a culture in which sexual assault and harassment were allowed to thrive.

M’Coul’s, which has long billed itself as a family-friendly pub, formerly employed Hall and hosted multiple serviceindustry parties called “Bang Nights” in which taglines like, “We’re going to bang the everloving shit out of you,” were printed on flyers posted on their social media accounts. During Bang Nights, which took place between August and December 2018, menus featuring cocktails named things like “money shot,” “golden shower” and “pull-out method” were served. Feldman and McKnight said they have called on M’Coul’s management and ownership to explain why they hosted the events and to comment on Hall’s status at the restaurant.

Simonne Ritchy, the owner of M’Coul’s, told TCB that Hall no longer works at M’Coul’s and hasn’t worked there for months. She said she couldn’t say why he was fired, and also said that Hall never worked a Bang Night. She added that she stopped the events as soon as she found out about their overtly sexual nature.

Despite Ritchy’s claim that Hall never worked during the Bang Nights, at least one former customer told TCB that they saw Hall serving customers drinks before the events.

“I didn’t know if he was on the clock or off the clock, but I saw him with trays at different points of the night giving out shots to people,” said Kierra Lang, a former McCoul’s customer.

Lang said they would visit McCoul’s

around 5 or 6 p.m., a few hours before easy for college-aged kids to get drunk Bang Night officially started, and would and become vulnerable to predators. stay until about 9 p.m. The entire time Both of them said that the bar had she was at the pub, she said she would achieved a level of status in the commusee Hall, in addition to the bartenders, nity as the cool dive bar, where everyone going around giving drinks to people. went to hang out late into the night.

“At least once an hour I would see emWhile the owner of College Hill, Jason ployees or Lorenzo passing out drinks,” Paul, declined to comment for this piece, Lang said. employees of the bar posted in a College In late August, the safety alliance Hill Facebook group in mid-July addresscalled for a boycott of the establishment. ing community concerns.

“We reached out to them privately at “I appreciate folks reaching out,” first,” McKnight said. “It wasn’t out the wrote Pam Cooper, a longtime employgate. This is our community; we’re not ee, in a post. “We are not dismissing any trying to rip it apart.” of you and we are listening. We want to They said that they haven’t heard back help, want everyone to feel safe. Thought from anyone at M’Coul’s about their we’ve tried to provide a safe environquestions and demands. ment; we know we can do more.”

“We’re not looking for everyone to say In another post from July 15, Cooper they’re perfect,” Feldman said. “Clearly posted about the possibility of a comthis is an issue across all restaurants. munity forum for individuals to express We’re not looking to point fingers, but their concerns to management. No such you gave him a platform. You have more event has taken place so far. responsibility than you’re letting on.”

“They are refusing to speak on the Feldman and McKnight safety of their patrons said that College Hill, because they don’t want which has been closed since to lose future business,” coronavirus took hold in the McKnight said. “It’s holdspring, also needs to be held ing people accountable…. accountable I think people can have a “College Hill was a viewpoint that we’re attackbreeding ground for this being these establishments. havior because of the bendNo, we just want people ing of the rules,” McKnight to be safe and we want to said. “You could overdrink educate our community on – Alexa Feldman very cheaply; you could what’s going on.” misbehave. I fell on my ass For Feldman and McKmultiple times there. I know that there night, accountability from establishwere drug deals there, multiple people ments looks like managers and owners doing cocaine in the bathrooms. admitting what has taken place in their “I personally always felt supported at businesses in the past and promising to College Hill, but I don’t think that was correct those behaviors in the future. always the case for everyone,” Feldman After tagging multiple businesses in added. “I witnessed underage drinking their posts, regardless of whether they when I was younger. I know they started were involved with abusers or not, some taking it more seriously, but I definitely owners and managers began to respond. think that the bartenders overserved in Jake Skinner, the manager of 1618 order to get more tips, and that’s comDowntown said that after the business mon for many bars. I’m not just putting was tagged in a post, he reached out to that on College Hill, but because they’re the organizers and asked them what they in that central spot, they are right next wanted. to campus, I believe they have more of a “I felt the requests were pretty responsibility to make sure these young straightforward,” he said. “They just people are able to navigate these spaces wanted businesses to acknowledge that they’ve never been in this culture exists, and to make sure this “It’s not like we have a vendetta and doesn’t happen in their establishment.” we’re like ‘I hate this place,’” Feldman Skinner said that he had a past continued. “No, that was our bar. I’m instance in which one former employee even hesitant now because I have such sexually harassed another employee four a connection with the bar but that’s the years ago. Neither of the employees reason why we care so much. We’re trycurrently work for 1618, and according ing to make these places understand how to Skinner, the company is involved in a they can be more safe.” lawsuit with the survivor.

Feldman and McKnight say the bar’s It was after the incident that the busiproximity to UNCG’s campus makes it ness started to require sexual harassment

‘We’re not looking for everyone to say they’re perfect.’

training for all staff. Skinner said management is also organizing a training from an alcohol-safety instructor and try to use employee reviews as spaces for employees to speak up about problems they are experiencing.

“If you work in this industry for a long period of time, you kind of see just how awful people can be,” Skinner said. “A lot of it can be boiled down to restaurant and service-industry culture as a whole.”

Another establishment that was tagged in the Greensboro Safety Alliance’s posts was New York Pizza on Tate Street. The restaurant’s new owner, Jessica Gramisci, said she reached out to the alliance’s Instagram immediately after she saw that her business had been tagged. Gramisci said she and her husband, took over the business in May and renovated the interior. She said she wants the business to return to being more of a familyoriented restaurant. Her husband owned the restaurant from 2000 to 2015, and they rebought it when it went up for sale a few months ago.

“We’re going to make it the New York Pizza that is used to be, a family restaurant with a bar,” Gramisci told TCB. “We want people to come here….

We want people from UNCG to be able to come and walk in and do homework here.”

She said in order to achieve their new aesthetic, they are doing away with the late-night loud live music and only have sets featuring live jazz or solo guitar.

She said that the establishment has at least two cameras trained on the bar at all times, and maintains strict policies on overserving and training for bartenders.

“I feel like I would like my daughter when she is of age to go to a bar and be safe,” Gramisci said. “I prefer to feel the same way here. Like you can have your drink and go to the bathroom and you’ll come back and your drink will be there untouched.”

McKnight and Feldman said they’re happy with the responses they’ve gotten from 1618 and New York Pizza and want others to follow suit.

“With 1618, I would say that it’s because they have been through this before, it shows they learned this lesson,” McKnight said.

“It shows that they learned that, and are open to taking on other things that we suggest, which we think is a really good teachable lesson,” Feldman added. “We all need to learn from these mistakes and learn from them and grow from them together.”

“It kind of showed me how easy it can be,” McKnight said specifically of Gra-

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In addition to calling out establishments, Feldman and McKnight said they want to hear from the abusers themselves. Rather than going to the police, which they don’t believe to be productive, they want to engage in community accountability so individuals can change for the better. That’s different from how rape and sexual assault has been treated traditionally. But with national calls to defund the police and the country’s massive state of incarceration, Feldman and McKnight said they don’t want to participate in that system.

SCREENSHOT A flyer advertising the last “Bang Night” at M’Coul’s “I don’t think that healing happens in prison,” McKnight said. misci’s response. “As someone brought of the job breeds a culture of drinking “There’s no transformation,” Feldman it to their attention, they were like, ‘Of and drugs. added. “It’s not transformative justice. I course, we totally don’t condone that “Our schedules dictate our entire just don’t think that a court telling this behavior.’ So why would other places lives,” they said. “When we go into work, man that he committed a crime is going resist?” it’s daylight and when we get off work to change his mind. In our case with Monika Johnson-Hostler said NC it’s nighttime. We can’t run errands, the Lorenzo, we have multiple accounts CASA has been doing work with bars only option left for us is the last hour at against him.” and restaurants to try to keep people safe the bar to blow off steam Feldman also pointed for years. from a high-pressure out the fact that despite “We’ve had a lot of communities ask night. These instances having admitted to for bar-and-restaurant training,” she lead to late-night parties assaulting her after it said. “Many are college towns. We know and access to alcohol and happened, Hall recently that where there are college campuses, drugs because the culture acted confused when there are bars. A lot of the training was itself provides that.

Feldman shared her story with bartenders like how to pay attention There’s not a lot of room publicly. to people at the bar.” for anything else.”

“He’s basically saying She said things to look out for was They said increased he has no idea why I multiple drinks being bought for the mental-health counseling would be accusing him – Alexa Feldman same person. She also said she wants and work-related healthof sexual misconduct,” bartenders to be active bystanders in care might solve some of Feldman said. “He’s situations of sexual harassment. the problems. trying to deny what hap“Bartenders see everything,” she said.

“There’s no substance-abuse counpened. This is how these abusers gaslight “They have relationships with the paseling,” they said. “Relationships are their survivors into invalidating their trons…. It’s not just rapists who change isolated. Families never see us.… It own experiences, which is why it takes the culture. The people who assault are becomes a breeding ground — like if so long for survivors to come forward able to do so because the culture allows you’re going to socialize, you’re going to sometimes. He thinks he can manipulate them to do that. Being a bystander be around alcohol and drugs. Our livelime into thinking that I didn’t accuse means, ‘I’m going to tell my manager.’” hood revolves around that.” him…. Also he didn’t really apologize The safety alliance organizer in In order to make sure patrons stay safe and he continued to rape my friends for Raleigh has worked as a bartender for in their establishment, the Raleigh orgayears afterwards.” more than a decade and said the nature nizer said they try to stay hypervigilant Both survivors say they want Hall to

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admit what he did to all of his survivors, and seek help like mental-health counseling.

Even though they don’t believe in going to the police, they don’t want to keep other survivors from reporting their assaults to the police, they said.

“It’s personal to each survivor,” Feldman said. “We don’t want to invalidate different things. We just want to show that there can be a different way…. We don’t know what this looks like without police, but we’re doing our best to keep people safe. We want him to actively engage in some sort of work that’s going to transform him and keep him away from people he’s hurt.”

Feldman and McKnight said they also want Hall’s friends to understand what he did to them and to speak out against it. They want his friends to analyze their own behaviors and to think about the ways they might have harmed others.

“We need them as men to do work to stay on him,” McKnight said. “We’re seeing that none of them understand what that means, or they’re abusers themselves.”

“This shouldn’t fall on us,” Feldman added. “We’re living with this trauma.

I get that they don’t know what to do.

This will be setting some sort of precedent for community work.”

Johnson-Hostler with NC CASA added that change happens at the individual level and that it’s up to every person to call out when they see something wrong.

“Making sure friends aren’t using rape at the end of a joke,” Johnson-Hostler said. “Or using language that doesn’t hypersexualize girls. Those are all ways in which individuals should be engaging in speaking up.”

She also said individuals can create change in their immediate sphere of influence, whether in families, at work or in social networks.

“The large part about this is that sexual violence has been perpetrated in this country for centuries because we don’t talk about it,” Johnson-Hostler said. “Silence perpetuates violence.”

For Feldman and McKnight, staying silent is no longer an option.

“All it takes is one person saying something, and it opens a floodgate,” Feldman said. “We’ve just heard the tip of the iceberg, and I’m sure there’s just so much more to uncover.”

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when on the clock by watching patrons closely.

“I think there’s a huge responsibility on behalf of bartenders to take care of people who are becoming inebriated,” they said. “But I think it’s problematic because we don’t have the resources to deal with that.”

Having clear protocols and rules in place at businesses is a good start, they said.

“Get rid of problematic people in your system, and enact direct steps in a handbook so your staff knows what to do,” they said.

To learn more about NC Safety Alliance Greensboro, follow their Instagram at @ncsafetyalliance_gso.

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The folly of prognostication We don’t know who is going to win the 2020 US Presidential Election. And neither do you.

The best of us on the media side of things got out of the prognostication game after 2016, when Donald Trump laid to waste all of the predictive political tools at our disposal.

Poll after poll determined Hilary Clinton would march away with that race — the only question in a lot of our minds was just how big a landslide it would be. And then, on election night, we all got caught flat-footed, swapping out Page 1 headlines and retooling our stories to reflect this sudden glitch in the matrix.

We should have seen it coming.

Trump sailed through the Republican primaries, set fire to all who stood against him, co-opted an entire party that would eventually bend to his demented will.

The only thing that has changed is that Trump has grown more powerful, and further consolidated his base.

Well, not the only thing.

Six months ago, it looked like Trump was a lock to win re-election, unless something extraordinary happened — and it would have to be something more extraordinary than, say, a recorded conversation in which he discussed the thrill of grabbing women by their genitals. Trump supporters have shown they don’t care about his character flaws or the travails of his personal life.

So: Pandemic. And then a ham-fisted

Trump response that can be defended only by the most extreme practitioners of rhetorical contortionism. We’ve got more deaths and higher case numbers per million than many developing countries. And we’re still the only nation in the developed world where people who survive the disease can go bankrupt from the treatment.

Maybe it’s cost Trump some voters.

Maybe.

And then there’s Joe Biden, who seems fine as a garden-variety, legacy Democrat, but who certainly could not muster as much enthusiasm as an Obama, or even a Clinton.

Today, Biden is leading polling in most states — North Carolina, it should be said, currently leans towards Trump by as many as one or two points.

Not that it matters. Not after last time.

Then there’s the very real possibility that the vote will be indecisive, that we won’t know the true winner of the election for days, or weeks, or months. Some have predicted that Trump, who has already besmirched the US electoral process and the sanctity of the US mail, might not step down so readily.

Over the last week, several publications addressed the possibility that Trump could decide to remain in office no matter what the voter tallies are.

The only thing that might prevent that would be a Biden landslide. And nobody is comfortable predicting that.

Biden seems fine as a garden-variety, legacy Democrat, but he certainly cannot muster as much enthusiasm as an Obama, or even a Clinton.

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At its most basic level, the stuff is made with shredded cheddar, mayonnaise and chopped pimentos or roasted red peppers. Variations sometimes include cream cheese, brined olives, bacon bits, pickle relish or jalapenos. At times it’s called “the caviar of the South” or Southern pâté alluding to style and sophistication, with an air of elitism. Really though, pimiento cheese is anything but.

Sandwiched between two slices of bread, slapped on hamburgers, melted in macaroni and cheese or simply scooped into a ramekin and served with crackers, pimiento cheese is best made at home but is perfectly acceptable to buy in-store. It’s for ladies who eat lunch (as well as attend them), and men who work on the line (as well as hold them). It’s one of those dishes that’s easy to make at home, where you can craft it to your liking, but you can’t resist picking one up when you see it on sale in the grocery store.

Whatever your thoughts on the cancel culture climate or free speech, plenty of local options exist so you can venture past Palmetto’s should you need your fix. Here are 10 Triad companies that offer the Southern staple.

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ven pimiento cheese has become political.

Brian Henry, mayor of Pawleys Island and CEO of popular pimiento cheese brand Palmetto Cheese, made incendiary comments on Facebook in late August which linked a

by Nikki Miller-Ka recent shooting in Georgetown, SC to the Black Lives Matter movement, referring to them as a terrorist organization. In a now deleted post, Henry wrote: “2 innocent people murdered. Not 2 thugs or people wanted on multiple warrants. 2 white people defenselessly gunned down by a black man. Tell me, where is the outrage? So why do we stand by and allow BLM to lawlessly destroy great American cities and threaten their citizens on a daily basis?”

It did not go over well among the pimiento cheese crowd.

Henry apologized shortly after taking the post down, and began a press conference the next day by apologizing for the post while doubling down and defending his company and his employees. Henry is entitled to his opinion and is well within his rights to post on his personal social media pages. What the man forgot is that he is a public figure and no matter what he posts, good or bad, could be disastrous for his company. He mentioned that a rebranding of the company is underway.

The most popular brand of pimiento cheese sold in the Southeast is owned by Henry and his wife, Sassy.

By all accounts they seem to be a well-meaning white couple whose website encourages people to email them at soulsister@pimentocheese.com, who created a product label featuring a photo of an unsmiling black woman and created the company’s motto: “The Pimento Cheese with Soul.”

The whole façade is problematic because Black American faces, likenesses and depictions have been used to help white people profit off Black food for centuries. Recent changes in national brands such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Cream of Wheat and Mrs. Butterworth’s drive this point home. Despite the blasphemous use of Comic Sans font, the Palmetto Cheese label and its contents do not seem inherently threatening or divisive.

Pimiento cheese is not historically classified as Black food, but the Palmetto Cheese brand’s success is linked to one black woman. Vertrella Brown, a longtime cook in the kitchen of the Sea View Inn on Pawleys Island — also owned by the Henrys — is the unsmiling woman whose likeness is used on the packaging and “added a secret blend of Lowcountry spices to give it an extra kick” according to a 2011 article in South Carolina Living magazine. Unfortunately, she passed away in April of this year. Perhaps the company already had a rebrand in mind because of this. Perhaps it’s time to cancel and denounce this brand in favor of a new one.

Pimiento cheese wasn’t always this complicated.

There used to be a time when the only debate about pimiento cheese was whether to spell it with an “i” before the “e.”

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CULTURE From the streets to the screen: NC Folk Festival 2020 goes virtual

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he camera tilts upwards along the green tower and shows the tolling bell at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Historic Site in Gibsonville.

The bell served as a timekeeper and now, it marks the beginning of the NC Folk Festival. It’s the location of country and Southern soul singer Rissi Palmer’s folk festival performance.

This year’s folk festival, filmed by 7 Cinematics, took place as a virtual concert series this year as a precaution against the coronavirus. The festival began on Sept. 11 and each day of the three-day event, pre-recorded musical performances from solo and group acts were live-streamed from the festival’s Facebook page, nugs.tv and the City of Greensboro’s YouTube channel.

The series opened on Friday with Lacey Wilson, site manager at the museum, offering a brief history lesson of the former school for Black high school students, explaining the significance of the bell keeping students on a strict SCREENSHOT Rissi Palmer opens the NC Folk Festival, which has gone virtual this year due to coronavirus, in a recorded schedule. performance in Gibsonville.

“We are set up in front of this bell tower,” Wilson said. “Students would In, Breathe Out,” a power ballad she wrote to inspire people Shields then introduced a biographical video of Cotten prelive and die by this bell directly behind to stand up for what they believe in, especially injustice in the sented by the NC Hall of Fame. The video described Cotten as me.” world. someone who was “mostly unheard and unknown for years,” She continued, “A senior boy would be “I just wanted to give encouragement to people who want and Jackson was determined not to let that happen again. the one who would ring it at particular to say something but they’re not really sure what to say,” she Jackson, standing in front of a portrait of Cotten, performed times. The bell would ring when you said during the performance. her song “Freight Train.” She kept her performance minimal, needed to be up, when you needed to be After finishing her set with the title track from her album opting only to sing and play guitar. at lunch and dinner and breakfast.”

Revival, the camera showed Palmer leaving the area and passShe finished her set with her original song “Clouds are PassPalmer made her mark in country ing under the bell as it rang three more times, representing ing.” music by becoming the first Black the end of her performance.

Finishing off the festival on Sunday was Mandolin Orange, woman to chart a country song since On Saturday, Veronika Jackson, a blues singer from Atlanta, a folk duo from Chapel Hill consisting of Andrew Marlin and Dona Mason in 1987. Her debut single, performed a tribute to the late blues and folk musician ElizaEmily Frantz who recorded their performance at the First “Country Girl,” reached number 54 on beth “Libba” Cotten. Her performance was in partnership with National Bank Field in Greensboro. the Billboard Hot Country Songs in 2007. the 34th annual Carolina Blues Festival.

“Hiding from the monsters in the belly of the beast,” they She now hosts an Apple Music radio James Shields, the director of the Bonner Center at Guilsang in their opening song, “Belly of the Beast,” as they harmoshow highlighting the history of country ford College, stood in front of the Underground Railroad Tree nized. artists of color, “Color Me Country”. For and told the stories of the former slaves that passed through Before performing their final song, Frantz stopped to adher folks festival those very woods, including how the mire the beauty of the setting sun, signifying the end of their performance, songs they sang connect us to today’s set and the festival. she stood in the blues music.

“This was always our favorite time of day to play a set,” she The live streams from each day street in front of “There were so many things that said. “While the sun is going down and, you know, we’re not the tower with the spirituals did in order to uplift quite rowdy enough to play at night but this is perfect.” of the festival will remain on the her ensemble of people,” he said.

“But it was also a “We’re a good sunset band,” Marlin agreed. “An early-mornCity of Greensboro’s YouTube two guitarists, way to let people know, ‘This is my ing band as well.” channel for on-demand viewing. one drummer condition.’”

“Here’s one of the most festival-y ones,” Frantz said, as they and one keyHe continued, “Spirituals, just like transitioned into their song, “Old Ties and Companions.” board player. the blues, were not so much about Songs of resilience proved popular during this year’s festival “I got my despair, but it was about the triumph over oppression.” as people strive to persevere and remain positive during this sweet, sweet lovin’ on you,” she sang The tree is located near the New Garden settlement of the time of uncertainty. as she strummed her guitar and danced Quakers, who believed that the “light of God was in every On Friday, the livestream began with a montage of past folk to the beat of the song, not letting the person,” according to Shields. festival footage. height of her heels restrain her moveThe Quakers would see enslaved Africans heading towards “See you next September,” the narrator of the montage said ments. the tree longing for freedom and would bring them food and in the hope that next year, the festival could return to its roots She slowed things down with “Breathe information to assist them.

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rawing is the artist’s most direct impressionistic paintings of athletes, movie and spontaneous expression, a characters and politicians, often created more species of writing: it reveals, betmuted drawings that at times served as preparater than does painting, his true tory materials for his multicolored final works. personality.”

When Vu, who works as the artistic director at So said French Impressionist painter the Neiman Center for Print Studies, discovered Edgar Degas about one of the most Neiman’s lesser known works, he decided to crefundamental expressions of art. In a ate a show that celebrated artists’ drawings and new exhibit titled, Drawn: Concept and their relationship to the medium.

Craft, which opened on Wednesday at “Some of them were preparatory, but I think SECCA, drawing as an artform takes on some of them were sketches that never got a multitude of meanings. turned into anything else,” Earle says about the A woman towers over spectators of Neiman sketches. “He was a very fast sketcher. the newly reopened museum. Her back He sometimes did live TV drawings.” is turned away from viewers and she James Baldwin’s recognizable face emerges shows off her decorative skirt to those from the white of the paper canvas in tones of who stand beneath her. A ghostly figure deep mahogany and ochre. Nearby, Neiman deemerges from the pleats of her skirt and picts Cassius Clay, before he changed his name reaches up towards her waist while a sea to Muhammad Ali, and Malcolm X together. In of daisies lay between her feet. Red, gray another sketch, Neiman draws a profile of Jesse and black lines traverse the volume of Jackson. her garment, adding layers and texture “These are more of these Civil Rights series to the dress. which he’s not well known for,” Earle says. “He “Thy Self” by Paula J. Wilson was was known more as a pop culture guy…. Reconput together in multiple parts, says textualizing this work in 2020 might be different SECCA curator Wendy Earle. Made up than it might have been a year ago.” of sections of hand-drawn, painted and Artist Kara Walker’s works offer another interblock-printed paper fragments, the work pretation of drawing. comes together like a giant jigsaw puzzle Using old prints from Harper’s Pictorial History on the museum wall. of the Civil War, Walker superimposes story“It’s drawings but really, really exbook-esque silhouettes of Black bodies onto the pansive views of drawing,” Earle says pastoral landscapes. The resulting images are about the show. “So, printmaking as a melancholic and, at times, dreadful. drawing medium, collage and cut paper “We’re talking about printmaking as a drawas a drawing medium. So, some artists ing medium,” Earle says. “You’re able to carve are adding information to a page, some into things based on your drawings and it’s just are extracting information from a page, a way of making a lot of this stuff that comes, which I think is really interesting. Some I think, more directly from the artist’s brain are more sculptural, some of it is digital whereas I think some other media like painting drawings.” can have more layers to it. Drawing is a lot more The show is the first one since SECCA immediate and I think her work taps into that.”

COURTESY IMAGE reopened its doors on Wednesday. Earle And like Degas, Earle says that drawing is one “Thy Self ” by Paula J. Wilson says they cut down on the number of of the most fundamental avenues of expression guests allowed inside the museum, that an artist can take, especially now, in the tures through human bodies with multiple limbs that branch capping the limit to 50 per half hour. midst of a pandemic when artists may be quarantining or may out in varying directions. Steve Cozart, also from Greensboro, Visitors are required to wear masks, enbe low on supplies. exhibits his Brown Paper Bag series in which he intricately couraged to maintain social distancing “Drawing is something that everyone can do right now,” draws portraits of people of color and includes quotes about and to wash their Earle says. “And I think a lot of people their relationship with their skin tones. hands before and who weren’t artists before are turning And it’s not all two-dimensional. In Scott Hazard’s paper after their visit. to these creative pursuits as an outlet Drawn: Concept and Craft sculptures, layers of ripped paper recede into boxes, creating Iterations of and that’s absolutely true of the artists will be on display at SECCA cavernous voids within frames. Along the edges of the sheets the Drawn show as well. It’s a way for them to get their are words that Hazard has typed out repeatedly, alluding to in Winston-Salem until Feb. has been put on ideas out in a very immediate way and the title of the work. In the upper gallery, a stop-motion video 15. Visit drawntosecca.org to multiple times I think for some of them I think it’s a shows off artist Jennifer Nuss’ paper dolls as they interact with across the world. stress relief.” learn more. dragonflies, caterpillars and lightning bugs.

The concept began Many of the works in the show were “I think you could argue that some of these aren’t drawings, when artist Tomas created during the pandemic, Earle says. but it’s the artist’s interpretation of it,” Earle says. “We’re tryVu discovered a And of the 68 artists featured, about a ing not to be too literal with it. Drawing is the starting point series of drawings by painter LeRoy quarter of them are from North Carolina.

I think, but it’s contemporary art so there’s never an easy Neiman after Neiman’s passing in 2012.

Greensboro artist Antoine Williams’ large-scale illustrations explanation.”

Neiman, who was known for his vibrant, grace the outside of the museum, reimagining mythical crea-

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