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CULTURE 16 Food: A taste of Kingston in southwest Winston-Salem 17 Barstool: The emergence of Pinky’s Pub 18 Music: Must Be the Holy Ghost 19 Art: Folk fest transforms the city

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The first time I covered the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was at the Joel in 2007, gathering string for my friend Sammy Albano’s website, Inside the Big East. I remember seeing Carolina take two wins and witnessed a Georgetown sweep on their way to the Final Four.

I covered it again in Raleigh the next year, when Carolina again took their first two games — amazing, isn’t it, how often the Tarheels always manage to begin March Madness with a nice home stretch? — and Davidson beat Georgetown at the front end of a good, deep run.

I was in the Greensboro Coliseum when Duke, a school that also seems to play an inordinate amount of early rounds near home, lost to Lehigh in 2012. It was indelible moment in my career, not just because I called the upset before halftime, but because I will never forget the thousands of Duke fans sitting in the stands with arms crossed and disgusted looks on their faces as they realized it was over for them in the first round. It was like someone had stolen their birthright.

There’s a reason that the NCAA has so many times chosen venues in North Carolina to host the early rounds of its most spectacular tournament, and it goes far beyond insulating UNC and Duke for the final — and most-watched — rounds of play, though that is certainly part of it.

It’s because fans in this basketball-crazy state know how to appreciate the exciting upsets and volatile matchups of the early rounds.

And now, in the eyes of the NCAA, we are not so much basketball crazy as just plain crazy.

When the biggest college sports association on the planet blackballs an entire state from tournament play — particularly a state like ours, which has some of the most popular franchises within the organization — it means we really screwed up.

Not just the legislators who passed the abomAnd now, in the eyes ination of HB 2, which of the NCAA, we are has been like skunk spray to the reputation of this not so much basstate, but the voters who ketball crazy as just elected them, the handiplain crazy. cappers who funded them and all the people who stood quiet as they ran roughshod over this land of hoops and sunshine.

This reactionary makeover of our state has been going on for a long time; we all bear some responsibility. It won’t stop until we make some changes.

But if anything has the power to force North Carolina into the modern era, it’s college basketball. If Duke and UNC begin to lose their early games without the benefit of homecourt advantage, expect a full-scale rebellion.

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CITY LIFE September 14 – 20 ALL WEEKEND Cirque Italia @ Dillard’s parking lot, Four Seasons Town Centre (GSO) Cirque Italia troupe bring European panache to the stage with a liquid twist from Thursday to Sunday under the majestic blue swirling big top,. Performers combine 35,000 gallons of water with dinosaurs, aerial acts, contortionists and trampolines. More information can be found at cirqueitalia.com.

WEDNESDAY

Photographer Daniel White @ Preyer Brewing Co. (GSO), 6 p.m.

Greensboro-based photographer Daniel White puts lifestyle, portraiture and live music shots on display in conjunction with Amplifier and Preyer Brewing. There will be no standing and reflecting in silence allowed. However, engaging in the dopeness is strongly encouraged. Event details can be found on the event’s Facebook page.

Bodies of Pride @ Great Balls of Fire (GSO), 7 p.m.

This artistic showcase is not for the faint of heart, nor the shy, or the kiddies, but definitely for the proud. Join Greensboro Pride as they celebrate the beauty of the human body through art. The opportunity to mix and mingle with friends over cocktails at Great Balls of Fire is just an added bonus. More details can be found on the event’s Facebook page.

THURSDAY

Birthday celebration @ DeBeen Espresso (HP), 11 a.m.

“Go shawty… It’s your birthday… We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday… We gon’ sip Barcardi like …” Okay so change the venue to a coffeehouse instead of the club and we’re pretty sure green tea will be on deck instead of liquor, however, there is definitely a party happening. DeBeen celebrates 19 years of business birthday style. More information can be found at debeenespresso.com

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Kleur expansion @ 724 N. Trade St. (W-S), 7 p.m.

Kleur is moving on up and ready to show off its new location to the community that helped to form its vision. Palatable spirits, moving lyrics and a food truck will be along for the celebration. More information on the calendar at kleurshop.com.

FRIDAY

Southern Food Fusion @ the Public House (HP), 6 p.m.

The ZENful Kitchen hosts a Southern food fusion extravaganza at the Public House fit for the true foodie elite. So prepare your palate, drink plenty of water and prepare to be amazed. Complete details and the secret password (joking) can be found on the Public House Facebook page.

SATURDAY

Girls Unite! @ Yoga Mindset, (HP), 10 a.m.

Calling all aspiring femme fatales. Yoga Mindset studios will be holding a Get Set Girls Speaking Up workshop in an effort to help direct our feminine youngsters on how to navigate out here in this hard-knock life.

Prior registration required due to limited space. Further information can be found on Yoga Mindsets Facebook page and at yogamindset.com.

Birthday Mox @ Gaming Underground, (HP), 11 a.m.

Gaming Underground is a Magic the Gathering (standard format) event as the last of the player reward season. Wonder if there will be pizza again? Detailed gaming information at Gaming Underground’s Facebook event page.

Winston-Salem Symphony @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Dust off the penguin tails and faux stole wraps. Andrew von Oeyen will joins the Winston-Salem Symphony on piano in an opening gala concert conducted by Robert Moody. For more information, visit wssymphony.org.

SUNDAY

Peace Festival @ Downtown Greensboro (GSO), 5 p.m.

Peace and love man, peace and love. Detailed information on the Greensboro Peace Festival 2016 can be found on the events Facebook page.

The NCAA announced it will pull its sports championships out of North Carolina in protest over the state’s HB 2 law.

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5. Napping

I had great plans for this last item, things that would make me sound cool or more athletic or inspiringly original. But the honest truth is that more than anything I want to be asleep right now, catching up on my much-needed beauty rest. Sometimes I wonder if I’m actually a gigantic koala given how much sleep my body seems to require in comparison to other humans. But here I am, sitting upright and typing away for your amusement before moving on to the next assignment. I hope you feel special.

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3. Traveling

Yeah, I’ve got a case of the Mondays. This weekend I saw DJ Grandmaster Flash, caught Leon Bridges in concert in Durham, went to a Prince-themed birthday party and took time to relax, among other things. Today is a back-to-back-to-back workday, as I’m heading to Winston-Salem for a freelance piece after 5 p.m. and then hitting up somewhere else in the Camel City for Triad City Beat immediately after. They’re enjoyable articles to be working on, to be sure, but I wish I could be basking in the weekend again. Plus, who wouldn’t want to go back in time and improve on their mistakes so they could wake up feeling even better on Monday?

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The large format book by Questlove — yeah, the one and only — explores the interplay of food and creativity, interviewing some of the world’s most interesting chefs. So much food writing either ignores the joy of eating food, cooking and creating or overlooks the social implications and larger context by catering to a wealthy, white audience. Questlove straddles both, and the Q&A portions of the book are particularly compelling, as if sitting down to dinner with the musician and various chefs and listening while they’re lost in conversation.

4. Weekend redux

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Donald Glover’s new show with an all-black writing team premiered with back-to-back episodes on FX last week, and it’s fantastic. Complex characters, multi-dimensional blackness, unflinching looks at systemic and individual racism and also comedy make “Atlanta” worth watching. Starring Glover — known as rapper Childish Gambino and as Troy Barnes in “Community” — as a Princeton dropout who aspires to manage his cousin’s budding rap career, “Atlanta” airs on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m.

Denver. Vietnam and Thailand. None are financially viable for me right now, but I’m making this list and see no reason to limit myself to the imminently achievable.

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I can admit that food means a lot to me and this isn’t the greedy girl in me talking.

There is one place in Greensboro that has found a place in my heart because it was able to offer me a dining experience that I didn’t expect: Whole Foods located in the Friendly Shopping Center.

I guess you can say I didn’t expect to fall in love with a grocery store for its cuisine because, well, it’s a grocery store.

At first I thought it was simply about the food that sometimes drew me to the grocery’s food bars five days in a row.

Whether I hit them up late at 5:30 p.m., I never encountered accumulated crud in the food pans, dried-out poultry, that weird film that coats stagnant food, or unkempt surfaces after a mad rush.

Unfortunately the hot and cold bars at my neighborhood Harris Teeter don’t look as appealing.

My personal favorites at Whole Foods are their macaroni and cheese, pulled Southern pork and jerk chicken. I also absolutely smash the salad bar every visit.

I keep my salads pretty basic — spring salad mix, feta cheese, shredded cheddar, mushrooms, and black olives — but the Whole Foods salad bar has a plethora of offerings. Roasted garlic, pulled chicken breast, locally farmed hard-boiled eggs, vegan chocolate mousse, Lebanese chickpea salad and rainbow brown rice salad are just a few of the bar’s choices.

On the hot side the food changes depending on the day. But whether you have the pleasure of walking in during sporting season and encounter the Spicy Ninja Squirrel wings or just mosey in during an average work week and happen across international-inspired cuisines, there is sure to be something on the bar to please your palate. It never ceases to amaze me how the food tastes as if I’ve walked into a restaurant full of professional chefs, or at the very least a kitchen manned by somebody’s grandma.

And of course, I love those green rubber bands used to keep the to-go packages secured. It is like getting a Happy Meal prize; another unexpected gift that keeps on giving.

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Jordan Green: Yes. The NCAA’s decision to withdraw events from North Carolina hits Greensboro — a city where ACC basketball is woven into the culture — particularly hard, not to mention the economic loss to restaurants and hotels, along with pay for riggers and concession-stand workers. The pain of this decision will be widely shared among people who live and work in North Carolina, but it’s the right move. There needs to be a cost exacted as a penalty for the Republicans’ shameful decision to harass and stigmatize transgender people for political gain. And that, in essence, is what makes a successful boycott. Gov. Pat McCrory banked his reelection prospects on this gambit, and he’s going to lose. When he loses, maybe the Republicans in the General Assembly will come to their senses and rescind HB 2.

Readers: A considerable 71 percent of our readers who voted said, “Yes, it’s the right thing to do.” We’d call that a landslide, but a not insignificant 29 percent said, “No, it hurts North Carolina.” The majority appears to feel that the benefits outweigh the cost though. Nobody voted for “Other/Unsure/ Don’t care.” No waffling here!

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Brian Clarey: I absolutely support the NCAA’s decision to boycott the state of North Carolina, as I’ve supported every other action by reasonable people looking to exercise leverage against our state after the abomination known as HB 2 came to pass. I know it hurts our economy, and I know it’s not entirely fair to the people who rely on these events to make their living.

But the NCAA doesn’t stand for misogyny and discrimination, and neither should we.

they stated here and the ones we’ve articulated before in support of other HB 2 boycott actions.

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New 13 District favors Republican candidate aligned with Trump

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Despite an open contest and some history of voters electing Democrats, outside money and support favors the Republican candidate in the new 13th Congressional District.

When Republican state lawmakers were forced by the federal courts to redraw congressional district lines earlier this year, the new 13th was one of the more balanced among 10 designed to favor candidates from their own party.

That doesn’t mean it will be anything like a fair fight.

The new 13th District covers twothirds of Greensboro and 95 percent of High Point, stretching from the urbanized west end of Guilford County through more rural and conservative swaths of Davidson, Davie, Rowan and Iredell counties. The geographical contrast neatly aligns with the partisan breakdown of the contest: Republican Ted Budd, who owns the ProShots shooting range and gun shop outside of Winston-Salem, lives in Davie County, while his Democratic opponent, Bruce Davis, operates a daycare with his wife in High Point. A self-described “outsider,” Budd has never before run for office, while Davis served for 10 years on the Guilford County Commission.

John Dinan, a politics professor at Wake Forest University, said the 13th district race “is not on any of the major races-to-watch lists that track races expected to be competitive in November,” despite being one of the more evenly balanced districts based on voting patterns for Republican and Democratic candidates in recent elections.

While agreeing that the district leans Republican, Michael Bitzer, who teaches political science at Catawba College, said odds-making in the race is challenged by a number of unique factors this year.

“With it being an open seat, that’s usually when you see ability to go one way or another,” he said. “Incumbency is a powerful factor. With no incumbent it’s going to be the ground game and other influences — primarily the top of the ticket.

“What is the toxicity of both the Trump and Clinton campaigns down the ballot?” he added. “As we get closer to November, does something Trump says impact the Republican candidate?

Do Hillary Clinton’s negatives start to approach Trump’s and hurt the Demo-

to citizenship for undocumented residents. He’s spoken to a number of people in immigrant communities over the course of the campaign.

“I’ve been hearing their stories about how their lives are impacted by the rhetoric,” Davis said during Ted Budd Bruce Davis a recent interview at his campaign cratic candidate?” headquarters in High Point. “How Budd, who defeated 16 opponents challenging it is to live an existence in in the primary to win the Republican the shadows — going to work, raising a nomination, hasn’t shied away from his family. We talk about racial profiling in party’s standard-bearer. the black community, and they have a He spoke before Trump at a Windouble dose.” ston-Salem rally just after the RepubliWhile emphasizing that undocumentcan National Convention and warmed ed people with criminal backgrounds up a crowd in the Twin City for vice must be deported, Davis said he would presidential candidate Mike Pence in like to find a way to protect those who late August. During the second event, come to the United States from Central he hailed Trump’s plan to address illegal America seeking asylum from violent immigration. While decrying Clingangs. ton’s pledge to expand the number of Davis said he holds out hope that a Syrian refugees accepted by the United Democratic wave election similar to the States, Budd said, “Donald Trump one in 2008 will give him a shot at the has already made it clear what he is 13th Congressional District seat. Voters going to do: Protect the border, repeal in the district have favored some DemoObamacare…. Those are the policies crats including candidates for secretary that will make America great again.” of state and superintendent of public Pence returned the favor, characterinstruction in 2012. And they narrowly izing Budd as part of a team that will supported Democrat Kay Hagan in the return conservative policies to Washing2008 US Senate race, but then switched ton. “When Donald Trump and I take allegiance to her challenger, Republican office and Ted Budd gets sworn into Thom Tillis, in 2014. the Congress of the United States,” he Despite the potential opening, the 13th said, “right out of the gate we’re gonna District race has not attracted attention cut taxes across the board for working from Democratic donors outside of families and small businesses.”

North Carolina.

Despite equivalent attention on North “Right now, it’s not going well in Carolina from the Clinton campaign, fundraising,” Davis acknowledged, including a recent appearance in lamenting that endorsements from Greensboro by vice presidential canthe Congressional Black Caucus and didate Tim Kaine that drew an enthuNARAL Pro-Choice America haven’t siastic crowd, Davis has yet to receive translated into donations. similar exposure from higher profile The most recent fundraising totals candidates. available from the Federal Election “I look forward to that one day since Commission, as of June 30, show Budd they’re all over our state,” Davis said. dwarfing Davis, $200,636 to $32,910.

“I’m there to fire up the base. I hope I Budd also benefited from $500,000 in get that opportunity.” support from the conservative Club for In contrast to Pence’s embrace of Growth super PAC, mostly in the form Trump’s stance, Davis has emphasized of independent expenditures on TV ad a compassionate approach to immigrabuys, during his primary. tion that includes supporting a pathway

“My opponent, if he’s given half of what he got in the primaries, we’ll be up against a challenge,” Davis said. “I have a lot of supporters and we’ll have to mobilize them.”

Despite being one of the more evenly balanced districts in the state, Dinan said Davis is still likely to have difficulty attracting outside support.

“The district leans Republican to an extent that makes it unlikely that national Democratic groups would target the race for financial support and advertising, especially when there are many other districts around the country that are much more competitive and present more favorable pick-up opportunities,” he said.

While Budd has been speaking to the older, whiter audiences that attend Trump rallies, Davis is turning to college campuses in the Piedmont region for support. Much of his campaign staff is drawn from local universities. The campaign’s political director and field director both graduated from High Point University last year, while the communications director is a senior at the university, and the campaign’s strategy director is a recent UNCG graduate. The campaign held a “turn up the vote” rally at Livingstone College in Salisbury and is planning a similar effort at Bennett College in Greensboro.

Last week, the Davis campaign shifted from building its infrastructure to putting its ground game into effect.

A volunteer showed up at the campaign headquarters at 5 p.m. to pick up door hangers before setting out for an hour or so of canvassing.

“I’m gonna knock this out so I can go watch the game,” he said, while a campaign coordinator lamented that there weren’t more volunteers to join him.

Davis said his campaign has identified areas of strength and weakness and his media team has put together materials to appeal to different constituencies.

“It’s a very aggressive ground campaign,” he said. “Phone calls, knocking on doors — we’re doing it the old-fashioned way.”

Budd isn’t conceding anything on his effort to mobilize voters as the campaign moves into its final phase.

“The get-out-the vote effort is going to be crucial,” he said. “I see a growing strengthening of the ground-level grassroots effort.”

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New buyer lined up to acquire troubled Rolling Hills Apartments

by Jordan Green

City leaders advance a plan to help a new owner renovate the troubled Rolling Hills Apartments, while treating a plan by the housing authority to take over a similar property with more skepticism.

A Colorado-based real estate investment company anticipates closing on the purchase of the troubled Rolling Hills Apartments in November.

The finance committee of Winston-Salem City Council unanimously recommended a resolution approving a revenue bond to help finance the purchase on Monday afternoon, moving the item to the full council for consideration later this month. The revenue bond, combined with a loan for low-income housing backed by federal tax credits will finance the purchase, said David Asarch, vice president of development for Steele Properties.

The resolution does not commit any city funds to the project. In exchange for city council signing off on the revenue bond, Steele Properties would agree to invest $4.3 million — or $42,760 per unit for 106 out of 110 units — to bring the property up to code. The resolution replaces an earlier agreement for the new owners to invest about $17,000 per unit, which council members deemed inadequate.

“As the council member and a neighbor to the residents, I think the new owner will be able to make the kind of investment that we won’t be here in the next five, seven years having the same conversation,” said Councilman Derwin Montgomery, adding that the transfer of ownership will ensure that residents have access to affordable housing that meets a high standard of quality.

The troubled apartment complex, whose units are entirely dedicated to tenants who qualify for federal housing assistance, has been plagued by physical deterioration and crime for years. Previously owned by the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem, the public housing agency sold the property in 2011 while promising that a private owner would commit new investment. In early 2014, the property was sold again — to New Jersey-based Aspen Companies, a leading Section 8 provider that has made an aggressive push to acquire low-income housing complexes across the Southeast while shopping its HUD portfolios to investors through the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

City leaders have become increasingly

Members of the finance committee of Winston-Salem City Council tackled to items involving blighted housing on Monday.

frustrated with the Aspen Companies in recent months as widespread code violations such as sewage backups, leaks, mold, unsafe electrical wiring and inoperable appliances, along with unannounced power shutoffs, mounted.

From June through August, the city levied more than 600 code violations, affecting 96 out of 110 units in the complex. Ritchie Brooks, the city’s director of housing and community development, said staff was puzzled that Rolling Hills managed to earn a passing score of 80 from HUD during an inspection in April. Responding to concerns from residents, city officials and US Rep. Alma Adams, HUD has agreed to conduct a new inspection later this month.

Meanwhile, two former Aspen Companies employees — a property manager and maintenance supervisor — who were fired over the summer have accused the company of fraudulently billing HUD for unoccupied units. Jeremy Cox, the former property manager, told Triad City Beat he overbilled HUD as much as $6,000 per month at the direction of the company’s regional manager, resulting in the deposit of the excess funds in a company account. The Aspen Companies has categorically denied the two former employees’ claims.

Councilwoman Denise Adams warned Asarch that city leaders will be watching Steele Properties to ensure the company meets its obligations to the residents of Rolling Hills.

“This would have never gotten here if the people hadn’t risen up,” she said.

“You’ve seen how loud their voices are, and I can tell you they’re going to hold

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you more accountable then we are, and I commend them for that.”

The four members of the finance committee also moved forward on a resolution, though without great enthusiasm, to loan the housing authority $1.6 million to acquire another apartment complex that is similarly blighted by extensive code violations. Formerly named after Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke, the current New Hope Manor has acquired the uncharitable nickname of “No Hope Manor” from its residents. The apartment complex, located just to the north of the Cleveland Avenue Homes public housing community, lies within an area targeted for revitalization by the housing authority. The local agency is seeking a $30 million grant from the federal government to transform the high-poverty area into a mixed-income neighborhood, or so-called Choice community.

Council members have chafed at the idea that the property’s current owners — Nathan Tabor, a former chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party, and Bob Crumley, a prominent Asheboro lawyer with offices in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Charlotte — would profit from the sale. Housing authority officials assured council members that would not be the case.

Considering that the outstanding debt on the property is $2.5 million and the purchase price is $1.9 million, the lender would take a loss of $600,000, said Kevin Cheshire, vice president for real estate development for the housing authority. He added that Crumley signed an affidavit stating that the own-

ers would respectively make an “equity contribution” of just shy of $500,000 and just over $550,000.

“I don’t think they took a haircut on this,” Councilwoman Denise Adams said. “However long they’ve been in this business they’ve made money. They wouldn’t be going in in the first place if the owners didn’t make money. To not get $600,000 and to have their bills paid, they’re okay with it. It’s just like a bankruptcy. They’re just trying to unload it.”

Housing Authority CEO Larry Woods said that half of the 120 units are vacant. Of the 63 households, he said half of them are squatters. Over the weekend, a fire broke out in one of the vacant buildings in the complex.

“When I visited the area there was an open-air drug market, with people running in and out of the vacant building,” Woods said. “We talked to the police, and they thought it would be a good idea to demolish the vacant buildings.

“There were a few units upstairs that we labeled as uninhabitable because there was raw sewage running out,” he added.

Woods said that none of the units will be supported by federal housing subsidies, but the housing authority will keep them affordable by renting them for $450 to $475 per month. Those who are squatters “will have the ability to sign a lease,” he said, “and if they choose not to, they will be viewed as trespassers.”

Montgomery cast the lone no vote against the project, citing the estimated $13,000 investment per unit under the housing authority’s plan.

“The money that’s being invested is not enough,” he said. “It’s going to be a Band-Aid. We saw in Rolling Hills that when you got into the nuts and bolts, the needed investment was more than $17,000, and we negotiated with the new owners to bring it up to $42,000.”

But Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke, whose ward encompasses New Hope Manor, said she supports the project because New Hope Manor could jeopardize the city’s plans to invest bond funds in a nearby park if left unattended.

“It’s gonna be a beautiful park,” she said. “What we have there with that undesirable mess, then no matter how hard we try to encourage people that want to use that park, that want to walk on the street, it’s going to be a loss. So I have to go with what I think is best for this city.”

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No matter who wins the District 3 race for Guilford County School Board, a fresh face will be representing the area that reaches diagonally from the county’s northwest corner nearly into the center of Greensboro.

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cators, and that he has three kids in the school system.

Tillman also said during the primary that he was concerned that money is being wasted on regional superintendents, so it isn’t surprising to hear his misgivings about someone who served in the role for more than five years ending in 2015.

But most of Kidd’s time was in the classroom, teaching English at various levels, followed by nearly 20 years as a principal or assistant principal locally.

That boots-on-the-ground knowledge is indispensible, Kidd said, and could help the board better understand the needs of its students and how to make a difference. Plus, Kidd said, the school system’s administration is actually pretty lean, but if there are areas the board can identify to save or better spend money, Kidd said he’s all for it.

Kidd’s top priority if elected would be addressing mental health, starting early with elementary schoolers. He’s hopeful that wrap-around services planned by Say Yes Guilford will make a difference on that front, but said he needs to do more research on the organization’s track record and added that more needs to be done to address students’ mental health early on.

Kidd and Tillman differ when it comes to addressing racism or implicit bias, with Kidd saying that addressing teachers’ low expectations can be part of a daily effort to turn around implicit biases. Tillman said that focusing on literacy would alleviate some elements

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and positions.

“I hate that we have to politicize education,” Kidd said in a recent interview, sitting in Caribou Coffee not far from his home. But he emphasized that he wouldn’t be using the position as a stepping stone to higher office, and he hasn’t been involved in party politics either, he said.

Some of Kidd and Tillman’s positions line up predictably by party, like when it comes to charter schools, though it would be misleading to say that either tows a party line. There’s less space between them when it comes to talking about preparing students with real-world skills and not assuming every student belongs at a four-year college. And Tillman’s thoughtful and impassioned arguments that the school system needs to focus its attention on early literacy, pointing out that it’s a social justice issue, doesn’t sound like what some would expect from a former county Republican party chair.

“When these kids can’t read, they’re on a pathway to the criminal-justice system,” Tillman said in an interview on Monday. “We’ve got to intercede in that cycle, for sure, because that’s the only way we’re going to give our kids the life skills they need.”

Literacy is Tillman’s top issue, and not just because he’s running against a Democrat now; it’s the first thing he raised during an interview with Triad City Beat before his Republican primary earlier this year. It stems in part from the fact that both his parents were edu-

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Angelo Kidd’s greatest selling point may be his extensive experience working in Guilford County Schools as a teacher, principal and regional superintendent, but his opponent Pat Tillman suggests part of Kidd’s resume could be a liability.

Kidd points out that it’s possible that if he wins this race for Guilford County School Board, he could become the only person on the body who’s actually worked in the school system. But Tillman said voters need to ask themselves whether they want someone representing them who came so directly out of central office, someone who might need to make tough decisions about people he had worked with and potentially considers friends.

Kidd retired as the western region superintendent last year, after 46 years of working in schools, more than half of them in this county. Kidd spent more than a dozen years as a high school principal at three schools including Northwest Guilford and 21 years before that teaching English and coaching sports, as well as several years as an assistant principal at Southeast Guilford High and a brief stint as an elementary school principal. While applauding anyone who goes into teaching or working in education and calling Kidd’s experience “admirable,” Tillman said he thinks a fresh start from someone with leadership experience and who is independent of the school system’s central office would be preferable.

Either Kidd or Tillman, who face each other in the November general election to represent Guilford County School Board’s District 3, would be a newcomer to elected office, though Tillman ran unsuccessfully for an atlarge seat on the board in the preceding election and has served as chair of the Guilford County GOP. It’s a partisan race this time around, with redrawn districts and only nine seats going forward instead of the current 11. Tillman, the Republican, won the party primary against Brian Pearce in March while Kidd is the lone Democrat who filed for the seat. But Kidd said he hopes people don’t vote for him based on party affiliation, instead supporting his experience

of the achievement gap, adding that diversity and implicit bias are “valuable and important subjects, but they’re down the list as far as I’m concerned” because literacy comes first, and arguing that the school board lurches around to different issues without focus or accomplishing much.

In the primary, Tillman called the current left-leaning school board “stagnant,” adding that members spend too much time blaming Raleigh instead of being proactive. Kidd said that for the most part the current board is trying its hardest, though he wishes that some members didn’t bash teachers or staff without offering a solid plan, and suggested all board members should possibly be required to spend a week substitute teaching to better understand students’ needs.

While Tillman hasn’t worked in the schools, he emphasized his leadership in the Marines and as a school volunteer, adding that his wife is an active volunteer in the school system, too. Kidd’s wife, Linda Kidd, is the principal at the Early College at Guilford, and while his children are older, Kidd said experience as a parent or volunteer in the school system can’t rival experience in the classroom.

The winner of the District 3 race will be one of at least four newcomers joining the board of nine. Only two incumbents are running unopposed, meaning at most Tillman or Kidd could be one of seven new board members.

It is unclear how the newly-partisan nature of the race, during a presidential election no less, will affect the outcome of the District 3 contest, but in this race it would be a mistake for voters from either party to assume that the candidate’s affiliation told the whole story.

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Voting while black This happened: The Republican-led legislature sought information on the voting habits of African Americans in North Carolina. It used that information to craft an omnibus elections bill that systematically marginalized the African-American vote. And then, when its elections law was deemed largely illegal, NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse exerted pressure on GOP-majority county elections boards to continue the policy to the furthest extent they could get away with.

And it sort of worked, until the State Board of Elections called 33 of North Carolina’s 100 counties to the carpet and forced them to reinstate voting hours and polling places they persisted in striking.

Still, 23 of these counties were successful in reducing the number of early voting hours, and nine were able to drop Sunday voting altogether, including Forsyth.

But here’s the thing: The Republican Party’s plan seems to be to lock down the vote of white people — or, at least, minimizing the effect of black and brown people on our government.

But even in a state like North Carolina, which is about 70 percent white, they can only get a third of the counties to play ball.

This problematic math, these diminishing returns, is what’s causing Republican heads to explode in slow motion across the country, not just here at home.

Because even the C students among them — and there are likely a lot of them — have got to notice that people come in all shades these days, and that the demographic is shifting against their favor.

These are confusing times for racist white people. There’s not as many of them to make a difference these days.

That’s the biggest fallacy of Trump’s message — which up until this point has been rife with outright race-baiting: You can fire up the dogs, but if there’s not enough of them to pull the sled, you’re not going anywhere.

It might work in North Carolina, where voter suppression combined with hopelessly gerrymandered districts and unopposed candidates will keep Republicans in the majority in Raleigh.

But what does it say about today’s Republican Party when it still reverts to the timeworn tactic of suppressing the vote to gain advantage, instead of shifting policy to address a changing electorate? And can we expect any candidate from a party whose success is predicated on disenfranchising black and brown people to effectively represent those people if elected?

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On 9/11, a magic spell was broken

Spring and autumn hold a particular magic in New York City that is hard to fully appreciate in temperate North Carolina.

While the frigid and wet winters are harsher due to the more northerly longitude of the place, summers are also more brutal thanks

by Jordan Green to the preponderance of steel and concrete and the immense exhaust that is the byproduct of powering a city of 8 million people.

So when I think about Sept. 11, 2001, what strikes me with the most immediacy is how perfect everything felt when the day began, the morning air crisp, the sky clear and practically cloudless, and not a trace of oppressive heat as the sun rose.

I was working at the student bookstore at Hunter College that day. I’d landed the job after a fruitless search for employment over the summer, and although I’d already arranged a consultancy at the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina to begin in October, I enjoyed the work and the company of my coworkers, one of whom contended to my amusement that only Southerners could make soulful music and another with whom I shared a preoccupation with the overextension of American military power.

Since that day I’ve grappled feelings of guilt at having been so close to the cataclysm, and yet so little impacted. I didn’t rub shoulders with anyone in the financial industries, didn’t grow up in any of those Long Island or New Jersey towns that seem to have heaved half of their young up to the world-striding positions of power and wealth in the World Trade Center.

I remember the first inkling of the attack when an elderly man standing in line at the bookstore shook his fist and said, “The terrorist bastards hit us.”

I laughed at the absurdity of the statement, but then I hesitated when I heard someone else in line mutter something to the effect of “they hit the tower.” I went back in the office and told my manager that I didn’t know if it was true, but that people were saying something about the World Trade Center being attacked. She turned on a portable radio, and we gasped as the report confirmed the worst. She sent the employees home. The trains had stopped running because nobody knew exactly what was going on and whether there would be another attack. I made my way down Park Avenue, observing an armored personnel carrier outside the armory, trekking towards my apartment across the East River in Red Hook, Brooklyn. At Union Square, I picked up Broadway and watched men in suits dazedly staggering in the opposite direction with ashes on their shoulders. By the time I reached the Williamsburg Bridge, I was part of a stream of refugees filling in the traffic lanes to get back to Brooklyn. The trains had resumed service by that time, and I rode to my stop at 9th and Smith streets. By the time I crossed the pedestrian bridge over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the sun was setting, almost like the end of any workday. Every time I’d crossed that bridge, I had treasured the view of the Twin Towers jutting improbably into the sky three miles to the north. Now, they were gone, and I began to process the weight of what had transpired when I observed a couple stray bits of charred office paper gently settle from the sky.

It’s true that everything changed that day: Sept. 11, 2001 neatly divides a before and after. Before, the United States was a placid and somewhat prosperous place. As unsettling as they were, the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building and the 1998 Columbine High School massacre were more aberrations than signifiers of their time. After that day, tranquility and complacency will be shattered forever, with a sense of insecurity and instability steadily creeping outward: the invasion of Iraq, occupation and civil war; Hurricane Katrina; the housing and finance collapse; the tea party backlash to the election of President Obama; the government shutdown and Republican obstruction; the rise of ISIS and the destruction of Syria; the refugee crisis in Europe; Brexit and white nationalism; Donald Trump.

Yet in another sense Sept. 11, 2001 only marked an interruption in a slide toward political polarization and partisan gridlock.

It’s hard to remember what it felt like 15 years ago to be a citizen of a country that was united by grief. Would-be donors overwhelmed blood banks. People hung signs on the barricades, trying to locate the missing, and made memorials to the dead. They rode the subway quietly, wearing expressions of tender concern.

Sadly, that’s not us anymore.

She was Crayola blue, still warm to the touch

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Back at my place The person on the other end of the phone talked me through CPR and sent

a shot of whiskey and a PBR. The song “Only the Good Die Young” played as I drank it. It was either somebody’s sick idea of a joke or a messed up coincidence. I wasn’t happy regardless.

My friend Nathan talked me into staying at his place that night. I was still in shock and didn’t see what all the fuss was about, but decided to go along with it.

The next day, I came home and cleaned up the vomit. I can still smell the mixture of cleaning chemicals and bile when I close my eyes. It took days for the reality of the incident to really kick in, and when it did I had nightmares for weeks.

Though that happened years ago, I still feel like I’m walking through a thick fog.

I still have nightmares about Victoria and probably will for a very long time. I’ve lost a few friends since then, and quite a lot of people assumed since she overdosed in my apartment I had something to do with it or at the very least did heroin myself. I have never touched the stuff and don’t plan to anytime soon.

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The previous night Victoria and her boyfriend came by my place around 10 p.m. They were obviously drunk but not much more than usual.

Victoria was a little handsy; I just assumed it was the alcohol. It got a little awkward when she proceeded to sit on my lap, with her boyfriend five feet away. I went to bed around 11 — I had to be at the office at 9 a.m. the next morning and needed my beauty rest. Victoria got the message and she and her boyfriend left.

When I got up the next morning, Vic was on the couch. I could have sworn I locked the door the previous night but I might have been mistaken. I tried to wake her up but she didn’t respond. She was still breathing, in fact, she was snoring quite loudly. I just assumed she was still drunk from the previous night and somehow wandered back into my place to sleep it off. I didn’t think about it too hard; I had to get ready for work.

I came home for lunch, and arrived sometime around 12:15. Vic was still soundly asleep and snoring on my couch.

Her phone rang as I was making myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I answered it; it was her mother, Betsy. She asked if I had seen Vic, and said she was worried about her since she didn’t come home last night. I told her the truth; that Victoria was asleep on my couch but wouldn’t wake up. Her mother was used to this behavior and wasn’t overly concerned.

I left my place around 12:50 to go back to the office.

paramedics my way. Have you ever given CPR to someone whose mouth is filled with vomit? It’s not an enticing proposition.

I’ll never forget that taste.

The paramedics were quick to arrive, but not quick enough. I saw them rip her off the couch, like a tablecloth under fine china and tear open her blouse so they could use the defibrillator machine. It was ultimately all for naught, and I was ushered out of my apartment to wait outside.

I sat on the sidewalk outside of the apartment complex, wishing I had a cigarette while I waited for the paramedics upstairs to revive Victoria. They would have had a better chance of giving CPR to a pile of ash.

The worse part of all this was the sense of deja vu. Just a week prior, Ryan, Victoria’s on-again-off-again boyfriend and junkie partner, called me while I was at New York Pizza saying something along the lines that Victoria was acting messed up and they were about to get kicked out of Coffeeology and could I come and help. I finished my beer and took my time heading across the street to their location.

Once inside, I asked where they were and the pretty blond working at the time nervously looked at the back door. When I went out back I saw Ryan looking terrible and pacing. Vic was passed out on the bench.

“What should we do?” He asked.

“I’m calling 9-1-1,” I replied.

“I’m holding,” he said.

I took out my phone and called 9-1-1 as he ran off. I told the operator what was up and they in turn talked me through CPR. The paramedics made it in time that night; we weren’t that lucky the next time.

They told me the news, and I didn’t react much. I was in shock, I guess. Not too long after Venee, Betsy and Abbie came, all in tears. I bummed cigarettes and was told to wait for the police and CSI teams. I asked if I could go in and change pants because I still had Vic’s vomit on the ones I was wearing. I was told I could not.

Eventually, a detective came by and asked what happened. I told him the truth; I had nothing to hide. I suddenly remembered I had a bowl and a little weed on the coffee table. It didn’t worry me — that would be a misdemeanor at worse and I had a clean record (still do, surprisingly).

When they were done combing my apartment and questioning me, around dusk, I wandered in a daze up to College Hill Sundries. My friend Amy bought me

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She was Crayola blue, still warm to the touch when I found her. It was 5:15 p.m., and I had just gotten home

by Charles Wood from work and she was still asleep on my couch, or so I thought. I went to shake her awake; I just assumed she was still hungover from the previous night. When I touched her I quickly realized there was something wrong. She was too still. When I turned her over some vomit fell from her mouth and landed on my pant leg. She was that color of blue that no breathing person should ever be. I immediately called 9-1-1.

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The last lynch mob Winston-Salem’s 1918 riot and the first draft of history

by Brian Clarey

“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.”

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Hundreds, and eventually thousands, took up arms outside the old Town Hall at the corner of Main and Fourth streets, where the Cardinal Klimpton Hotel now stands in downtown Winston-Salem.

The first ones started showing up around noon, with mayhem on their minds. More followed, sharpening the violent edge of the crowd. And then even more: opportunists sensing the impending chaos, fire and safety officials hoping to contain it, concerned and outraged citizens on either side.

And deep inside a Town Hall jail cell sat Russell High, an innocent man whose only crime was being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It was November 1918 in Winston-Salem, the newly conjoined Twin City. That year, President Woodrow Wilson approved the concept of time zones and Daylight Savings, and the US Post Office had just launched its airmail fleet.

Billy Graham was born that year, and Joseph Smith of the Mormon church died.

RJ Reynolds, too, had passed just a few months before; no doubt his absence was

JS Pulliam, of Pulliam’s Store

keenly felt among the citizenry of the city he built.

Ironically, a week before what would become known as the Winston-Salem Riot of 1918, peace was declared overseas. World War I had finally come to an end after four bloody years. The country prepared to welcome its fighting men back home.

That, too, layered angst upon the collective subconscious of the lynch mob that formed outside the old town hall on Sunday afternoon, calling for High’s head.

While many African-Americans answered the call to serve, the US military was still segregated throughout the Great War and wasn’t all that anxious to arm and train legions of black Americans just a generation or two removed from slavery.

As a result, most black men of laboring age remained stateside, and in cities like Winston-Salem they took up much of the factory work that got left behind.

And everyone in the city knew that, sooner or later, the irresistible force of the returning soldiers would meet with the immovable object of the black labor force.

Just a couple weeks earlier, a similar

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scene had played out in Rolesville, just outside Raleigh.

“NEGRO LYNCHED BY CROWD IN WAKE CO.” read a headline on page 10 of the Nov. 7, 1918 Raleigh News & Observer.

It described the death of George Taylor, “a negro who had given county officers trouble before,” after being abducted on the way to jail by “four masked men, who are credited with wearing blue hoods over their heads….”

His crime: “criminal assault” of a Mrs. LS Rogers, who identified him on her front lawn before he was put in the car.

Within six hours he was found “hanging by his feet from the limb of a tree” near the Rogers’ house, his body and the tree behind it “riddled with bullets,” his flesh “mutilated by knives.”

“One of the things which precipitated this lynching, it is said,” the News & Observer explains, “is the fact that Taylor was the fourth negro who had been carried before Mrs. Rogers for identification. Three others had been arrested and later released when she exonerated each of being her assailant.”

Hege’s sporting goods store on North Main Stre ammunition by boys in short pants on the night

We newspaper people pride ourselves on providing the first draft of history, a mandate established by the US Constitution, right up front and center. But harkening back to the days of newspapering in the early years of the 20th Century, we remember that information did not flow quite so freely as it does in our digitized reality.

Phones were uncommon, particularly in North Carolina. Some newsrooms still used pigeons to send and receive photos, items and other bits of data in 1918. The telegraph had been established by then, transferring basic, encrypted information instantly over long distances. Still, much of the scuttlebutt was delivered by word of mouth, and we all know how that goes.

The social science of journalism had yet to be strictly defined, and it was well within the rules for a newspaper to frame an issue, cast an uninformed opinion or even omit coverage of a significant event entirely.

So I suppose in some ways it’s not so different. Lies can fly out at the speed of a tweet, and a discredited press corps fights

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form behind to correct the record.

Russell High found himself in the town jail after an incident reported that very morning on the front page of the Journal, below the fold: “WOMAN OUTRAGED AND HUSBAND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.” The lede describes the incident as “one of the most cruel, fiendish and revolting crimes ever committed in this section.”

As it goes, Mr. Jim E. Childress, aged 63, and his wife Cora, some 15 years his junior, took a Saturday evening walk to Pulliam’s store on North Liberty Street in the Inverness Mills section of town. As they crossed under the Southern Railway trestle, “a negro stepped out before them, holding a revolver.”

Cora Childress related the story to the Journal reporter.

“We were much too frightened to make any outcry,” she said. “The negro forced us to leave the road and move back along the footpath running along the railroad…. Then he shot my husband twice.”

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The assailant, she said, then brought her further along the footpath.

From the Journal: “Chief Thomas asked her if she had been offered any violence.

Her answer was: ‘Yes.’ “Sheriff Flynt then asked if he had accomplished his purpose, and her answer again was: ‘Yes!’” This is how rapes were described in newsprint in 1918: just the barest suggestion, but everybody knew what it meant.

“He walked away in the direction of town, after telling me that if I said anything my character would be ruined,” she elaborated, adding that the man had also stolen $2.25 from her.

Mr. JS Pulliam, proprietor of the store, and a few other townsfolk found Jim Childress crawling towards the road, shot in the head and torso.

Forsyth County Sheriff George Flynt and Winston-Salem Police Chief JA Thomas collaborated on a manhunt. The two lawmen found “three negroes, a woman and two men,” near the Mengle Box Co. on the tracks, and gave chase when they separated and ran. Sheriff Flynt took after one of the

The rear of Town Hall faced onto Fourth Street and a public square.

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A crown of about 2,000 had gathered, demanding the prisoner Russell High.

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men, and reported exchanging gunfire.

Flynt took a bullet to the hand, “between the knuckles of the middle and third finger,” according to the Journal, and sustained a wound to the neck. The assailant made off.

“The sheriff says he feels certain that he was the man wanted.”

The day the story broke, Chief Thomas arrested Russell High on Fourth Street.

High was black, he had just ridden into town from Durham and he had a gun in his possession. Thomas took him to the Childress home so Cora could identify him from the porch as a thin scattering of neighbors and onlookers drew near.

It is now understood that Thomas asked Cora if she had gotten a good look at High, and she nodded yes before they retreated inside the house, where Cora told Thomas that High did not match the description of her assailant. But all the crowd saw was the nod, and word began to spread.

By the time Thomas brought High back to the town jail — no reason for this was given in the contemporaraneous accounts— it was too late.

Thomas and High got back to the jail around noon; shortly afterward men from the Inverness Mill neighborhood began to gather. By 4 p.m. there were a few hundred.

By 6 p.m. on that autumn evening, there were a few thousand. They wanted High.

Thomas refused to surrender him.

The standoff continued as each side bolstered their ranks. Thomas had called in the Home Guard —a city militia made up of men too old or infirm to fight overseas — and stood them with bayoneted rifles inside town hall. He also had the police and fire departments on hand. He introduced speakers such as Mayor Robert Gorrell, who implored with the throng that they were after the wrong man, arguments buttressed by Mr. WM Hendren, Mr. PH Hanes Sr., Mr. HG Chatham, reverends HA Brown and WL Hutchins, and even Cora Childress herself, who insisted that she had never seen High before that day.

It changed nothing.

The mob surged towards the building and an unknown number actually got inside

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to confront High locked in his cell. The jailer would not relinquish the keys. Three shots rang out, one of them finding a member of the mob; in the confusion the Home Guard cleared the building as unrest grew outside.

At 6 p.m., it is generally agreed, the standoff broke for good.

That’s when they turned the fire hoses on the crowd, pushing them back from the entrance to the hall. That’s when the gunshots started to ring out in earnest, when pandemonium descended on the corner of Fourth and Main streets as bullets, bricks and bodies flew everywhere.

And that’s when it started to rain, throwing a veil of confusion over the scene.

“Two white people are dead,” reads the lede of the page 1 sidebar in the next day’s Journal. The piece describes the looting of the Hege hardware store of guns and ammunition by “mostly very young boys.” The Journal reported, “[B]y a seemingly unanimous impulse, they set out in search of other stores.”

They cleared out Walle-Huske of weaponry, then took guns and knives at Dalton Brothers on Trade Street. Mr. Roberts, of Robert’s hardware, reportedly told the wouldbe plunderers: “Boys you will get me, but the first one to come in at that door will get shot.” There were no takers.

The Journal further described the mob as boys between 14 and 18 years of age. “[M]any of them were still in short trousers, and not a few of them did not understand how to properly shoot the weapons…. The only argument that appealed to these boys was the warning to stop firing before they had wasted all the ammunition in the city.”

It is understood that these were white boys, as “negro” or “black” was a necessary descriptor in the newspaper style of the day when referring to African Americans.

Thus armed, the lynch mob took up occupancy at the Union Depot on Third and Chestnut streets, firing into the air and at black passers-by.

Meanwhile, the mayor had alerted nearby law enforcement, and word had gotten to Gov. Thomas Bickett, who enlisted as much of the state’s military as he could muster.

Troops came in by train from Greensboro, Charlotte, Mt. Airy and Raleigh with men, machine guns and an M1918 Ford tank, which by sunrise was parked across from the town hall. But by then it was over.

The official death toll was five including fireman Robert Young, who was killed while hosing down the crowd in front of town hall, and 13-year-old Rachel Levi, struck by a stray bullet through a window of her father’s Main Street store. At the end of a long list of those injured — home guardsmen, bystanders, rioters, police — the Journal reported, “Three colored men were reported to have been killed and several colored people were injured.”

Black lives obviously did not matter much in 1918.

Papers across the country had picked up the story by then, with varying degrees of agreement. The New York Times placed it on page 8 of the Nov. 18 edition, under the headline “SOUTHERN RACE RIOT COSTS FIVE LIVES.” In the Times account, after disbursement the armed mob made for the black sections of the city. “Late tonight however,” reads the report, “there had been no clash between the whites and the blacks.”

Contrast that with the story from that day’s Greensboro Daily News, which reported that the crowd broke up after Cora Childress’ exhortations. “When news reached the

negro quarter of the city,” it went on, “demonstrations began immediately. Hardware stores and pawn shops were broken open, and the negroes procured arms and ammunition, completely ransacking the stock and shooting wildly in the streets. Later the negroes marched up the main streets of the city, firing at random, and leaving disorder in their wake.”

The incident made the papers in 22 states — there were only 48 in 1918 — from the San Francisco Chronicle to the Burlington Free Press in Vermont.

The New York World wrote: “Winston-Salem has been the scene of a race riot as a result of which it counts, along with its damaged reputation, five persons slain by a mob and many injuries …. The crime in Winston-Salem is two and conspicuous, where it might have been one and soon forgotten. The one crime was that of a man. The other was that of a large proportion of the citizens of a community that should be far above such a lamentable resort to mob violence.”

Oddly enough, one paper that declined to write about the incident was the Twin-City Daily Sentinel, Winston-Salem’s other paper, which didn’t touch the story until three days afterwards, in the Nov. 20, 1918 edition, in what seems largely a response to the World editorial, which it quoted extensively. The page 4 commentary poured a cool glass of water on the embers of the conflagration.

“Immediately following such an occurrence,” it reads, “it is very difficult often to see things in their true perspective and there is a consequent danger of underestimating vital elements and over-estimating comparatively trivial elements. That this is true is shown by the hasty expression of some outside papers on the events here last Sunday.”

In its cool-eyed observations, the editorial insists “there was no element of race rioting involved, as some newspapers on the outside have assumed…. Any tendency to confuse it with an expression of racial antipathy would be unfortunate….”

which is that the city of Winston-Salem held off a lynch mob in a time when, in other parts of North Carolina, these vigilante groups were often successful in violently murdering young black men.

But while city leaders banded together to save Russell High, three other black people were slain in the city that night, and none of the newspapers saw fit to even carry their names or causes of death.

There’s a connection, too, with the Black Lives Matter movement: a systemic devaluation of the African-American population and a deep chasm between outcomes for black and white.

Though he was never seen in Winston-Salem again, Russell High walked away from this one. But more than 100 black people were lynched in North Carolina in the years between 1877 and 1950, according to a report by the Equal Justice Institute. What would have happened to High if Cora Childress had positively identified him as her attacker.

A serious question: Why did Chief Thomas bring High back to jail after the meeting at the Childress house?

Another interesting aspect of the saga is the nature in which it unfolded in the press: an uneven patchwork of reporting by primitive newsrooms as chaos descended on their city, the speed at which the information reached the furthest corners of the country and the degree of accuracy in which it arrived, the framing of the issues according to bias or custom, sensational omissions of uncomfortable subjects at a time when American race relations were in an overtly oppressive state.

This phenomena, also, is not entirely relegated to the past.

The Sentinel did pick up the story of the aftermath on Nov. 22, 1918, with a page 1 report.

Fourteen men had been arrested for trying to break into the jail, another dozen or so for looting, a single murder charge for Ernest Cromer for the murder of the fireman Robert Young and a slew of extra bodies just lying around the jail cells waiting to be charged.

Gov. Bickett appointed a special session of Surry County Superior Court under Judge HP Lane to handle the indictment on Dec. 30.

A small item on page 2 on Jan. 11 announced the end of arguments in the trial, and that sentencing would likely be carried out later in the day. The Sentinel never mentions the man’s name again.

The Journal, which also had a piece on Jan. 11 about closing arguments, likewise dropped the story.

For the verdict in the Comer case, we must turn to the Western Sentinel, another daily that covered the city.

“ACQUITTAL OF ERNEST COMER IN MURDER CASE” reads the page 1, left-hand headline. “Defendant shakes hands with jurors after verdict of ‘not guilty’ is reached,” a subheading clarifies.

It took about 15 minutes.

The takeaways here are significant, not the least of

The Winston-Salem Journal’s front page from Nov. 18, 1918.

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CULTURE A taste of Kingston in southwest Winston-Salem

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t might’ve been a Monday night in a relatively empty shopping center, but at peak dinner hour the line to order at Irie Rhythms remained steady.

The Winston-Salem Jamaican restaurant is one of three in the city, but it is more directly comparable to Da Reggae Café in Greensboro. Like Uncle Desi’s, a tasty Jamaican spot with a great curry fish near Wake Forest University on the city’s north side, Irie Rhythms is primarily a take-out joint. But the configuration of the seating at Irie is more inviting for people to eat in — at Uncle Desi’s, customers often linger by the counter instead of walking into the adjacent, empty dining area. And the dine-in orders don’t show up in a Styrofoam takeout box at Irie, making it feel more like a restaurant even though it doesn’t offer table service the way Yeh Mon Caribbean restaurant in Winston-Salem does.

In some respects the menu at Irie Rhythms is somewhat standard — there’s oxtail, a curry chicken that might take a while to prepare, a hefty and spicy jerk chicken plate that’s worth the trip alone. But Irie also pushes beyond the predictable, offering a well-paired tilapia dish with a sort of mango salsa on top. There’s a good chance that the chicken salad sandwich is good, but please don’t attempt to find out. Instead order something more interesting like the ginger pork chops or the ackee and salt fish, Jamaica’s national dish that features a fruit originally from West Africa.

At the very least, if you want to keep the cost down and want something more basic, try the baked chicken or BBQ jerk pork sandwich, or show up for one of the daily lunch specials.

Irie Rhythms also provides a decent vegetarian menu, not counting the several seafood-based options, and lists a vegetarian section with choices such as the veggie delight and veggie rundown. It might be more satisfying to piece together a few meatless sides, including callaloo — think Caribbean collards — rice and peas, fried plantains or seasonal vegetables.

There are also a couple options from this part of the world, including the mac & cheese, but with flavorful and decidedly scarcer items like escovitch fish, why would you?

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Irie Rhythms feels newer than Winston-Salem’s Mall, Irie occupies what once was a Quiznos storefront, other Jamaican restaurants, though it’s been around my friend Andrew told me as we waited to order. He’d for a couple of years. Blame it on the credit card reader come in sometimes when he worked a job nearby, and that can accommodate those new chips or the walls though he knew about Irie Rhythms, he hadn’t been in that look freshly painted. That helps before yet either. its appeal, as does the more inviting We gave our dishes — him the Visit Irie Rhythms at 3252 seating and the fact that you won’t tilapia and me the jerk chicken feel like you’re intruding, as I almost after the cashier warned the curry Silas Creek Pkwy (W-S) or did when a friend and I were the chicken would take a while — faat irierhythms.com. lone lunch patrons at Yeh Mon vorable or even glowing reviews, once. But more important are the and endorsed each other’s meals well-seasoned, piquant dishes that rival Uncle Desi’s. after swapping bites. But even after a bit of a wait for And given the flow of customers on a Monday evening, the food to arrive, neither of us were able to finish our Andrew and I aren’t the only ones who think so. whole plates, eating to our heart’s content but stopping short of membership in the Clean Plate Club.

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But now there are four televisions up If Pinky’s where the back wall meets the ceiling, Pub feels and on a recent Friday afternoon, two like a cross played “Paternity Court” with the sound between a on while another was tuned to the US diner, like the Open. Pinky’s brought in a touch-screen one on Spring bar top game and a juke box. There’s a Garden, and karaoke night, trivia night and ladies a dive bar, night now — things that LaRue probably that’s beby Eric Ginsburg wouldn’t be caught dead hosting, and cause it is. taco Tuesdays to round out the breakThe new restaurant bar took over the fast and bar fare. slim space formerly known as LaRue Pinky’s has a half dozen beers on tap, across from the Carolina Theatre in mostly North Carolina crafts and one a downtown Greensboro after the French hard cider. The mixed drink menu is alrestaurant’s ambitious move across most entirely made up of vodka drinks, from apparel company VF close to a though one also contains rum and the dozen blocks north. Young as it is — just final one listed — called Angry Balls — is a few weeks old — Pinky’s already feels Angry Orchard with a shot of Fireball. like a completely different space, with Downtown Greensboro is home to pink and kitschy decorations replacing a a couple dive bars, though none are more manicured, upscale-meets-hipster really offering what Pinky’s does. It’s vibe. Save for the shape of the unique, as if Short Shanks and long space, the only obSnack Bar decided to vious signs that LaRue Visit Pinky’s Pub at combine forces with a briefly lived here are a cross between Fisher’s little leftover exposed pinkyspub.com or at and a diner from Emerwood and dangling red 313 S. Greene St. (GSO) ald Isle. It’s nice to see heat lamps above part Tuesday thru Sunday. that LaRue wasn’t just of the bar. a short interruption in Pinky’s Pub has the storefront’s long already lined the beer vacancy, and maybe more importantly, cooler — full of macro brews, Red Bull it’s nice to see somewhere that will be and a few wines — with a pink light and open late downtown serving pizza logs tacked some merch up in the entryway, and breakfast all day. putting down customized floor mats featuring its skull with heart-shaped eyes and pink bow logo.

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CULTURE Draughon’s Overflow chases out the demons and cries holy

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he six songs on Overflow, the new Must Be The Holy Ghost album, sound more emotionally direct, fully formed and organic than its predecessor, Get Off. That, in large part, is because Jared Draughon — the band’s musical visionary, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist — has been performing them live for at least a year. They tumbled out almost as soon as Get Off was released, almost as an extension of the first album: Hence, an overflow.

“They usually dwell in the darker experiences — heartbreak, frustration, sadness,” Draughon said of his songs.

A Durham native, Draughon’s first band was the Chapel Hill group Blankface, which played frequently in the Triad at venues like Pablo’s in Winston-Salem and Somewhere Else Tavern in Greensboro. He helped found another band, Telescreen, in 2007 with former members of Codeseven, and moved to Winston-Salem the following year. After performing with Telescreen, Draughon took a break from music for a while. When he was ready to start performing again, he conceived Holy Ghost as a solo act, but early on the liquid light shows produced by Evan Hawkins of Weapons of Mass Projection became an essential part of the project.

“He started messing around with a projector, and it seemed like a good vibe, and it fit and we kept doing it,” Draughon recalled during an interview after JORDAN GREEN Jared Draughon, also known as Must Be The Holy Ghost, is banking shifts at Slappy’s Chicken he finished working a recent lunch shift at Slappy’s before launching a national tour.

Chicken in Winston-Salem’s Washington Park neighborhood. “He kind of became a part of the group. I his own appealed to Draughon after playing in various owns a rich tenor that can slip effortlessly from a haven’t played a show without him since the beginning bands. dreamy reverie into an anguished falsetto. His voice is of 2015.”

“I suppose a lot of it is having the control — total more like another instrument than anything else, with The soft-spoken Draughon pulled out a box of newly control,” he said. “I was intrigued about the idea lyrics taking secondary importance to the overall sonic pressed cassettes, still nestled in foam peanuts at of having a sound that was large like a full band. I pastiche. The feeling conveyed by the music is more Slappy’s. A copy lay on the counter next to the cash produce and mix music as well. I need to make things important than any implied meaning. register, teasing customers. The album is officially difficult for myself to get off. Music is my outlet. It’s “When the songs are in their early stages — I genslated for release on Friday, marking the launch of my therapy. I have to do it.” erally write lyrics last,” Draughon said. “I have a way a six-week tour, and in the meantime Draughon is Although the music transports him back to the diffiof singing gibberish when I’m writing songs. So many banking shifts at the restaurant to save money for the culty that gave birth to it, the songs demand too much times the gibberish turns into vowels and consonants outing. The 21-stop tour kicks off at Urban Grinders to allow Draughon to dwell in darkness. that turn into words. In this weird, prophetic way, the in Greensboro, swings up the East Coast to New York “I don’t think too much about it because my mind is words kind of fill in the blanks.”

City before returning eight days later to the Garage in so fixated on what’s coming next,” he said. “What pedPossessed with a kind of innate musicality, Draughon Winston-Salem, and then arcs across the Midwest and al I’m pushing. What lyric is coming next. It’s almost seemed to muse about what he had just said after the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast and loops back like I’m a conductor. I’m definitely a different person. finishing sentences during his interview and then across the Sunbelt, landing at Snug Harbor in CharIt’s semi out of body. It’s kind of my outlet, my way absent-mindedly hum a snippet of melody or a vocal lotte on Oct. 29. of just releasing and making peace with whatever defrom the Genesis or Fleetwood A Must Be The Holy Ghost mons are there. That feels good. It feels like a cleansing Mac song playing in the backset matches the undulating of sorts.” ground at Slappy’s.

Must Be The Holy Ghost performs patterns of Hawkins’ light “It usually starts with a beat show with a layered wall of at Urban Grinders in Greensboro that I have in my head or on my Pick of the Week sound that Draughon builds computer,” he said, explaining on Friday and at the Garage in Let them eat jazz through a succession of his song craft. “With the guitar Winston-Salem on Sept. 24.

Piedmont Jazz Octet @ Geeksboro Coffee House & guitar and vocal loops set to riffs, since what I do involves Cinema, (GSO), Friday, 7 p.m. a drum-machine beat. The looping, I figure ’em out as I The Piedmont Jazz Octet, composed of eight multisensory assault produces start looping, or jamming, if members of the Piedmont Jazz Orchestra appears a hypnotic effect, the mercurial squibs of light proyou will. I try fingering different places on the guitar at the Geeksboro for one night only to celebrate jected onstage mimicking the loops in a fashion that is neck and different rhythms. With looping you can fill the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek” by playing theme more like a wave crashing onshore and retreating, or a too much space, and it becomes a mush, so sometimes music from the show. Get the freak out of here. heartbeat, than a linear narrative. you have to pare back. It’s been a learning curve with Well get your bum there. Full details can be found From a sonic standpoint the songs possess both delieach song.” at facebook.com/Geeksboro. cately phrased melody and sludgy heaviness. Draughon From the inception of Holy Ghost, making music on

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CULTURE Folk fest transforms the city

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t happened in a prolonged instant, or at least it seemed that way to me: The corner of city marred by half-finished projects, orange traffic cones and sprawl transformed into an international cultural celebration that may have been Greensboro’s finest moment all year.

Personal highlights include Bill Kirchen’s set, a climb through the lower branches of the Tree of Rock, and the stark beauty of Portuguese fado singer Nathalie Pires’ voice as it poured like oil over a bouzouki, a stand-up bass and a synthesized clavichord.

But nothing I’ve ever seen could top the bounce and sway of DJ Grandmaster Flash’s Sept. 10 joint underneath the white tent of the Dance Pavilion, where men, women and children — there must have been 10,000 of them — held an old-school get down as the sensei spun.

On top of that, parking was a breeze, food and drink were easy to come by and I have never in my life used a cleaner port-a-john.

Greensboro wore the National Folk Festival well, from the newly clipped lawn at LeBauer Park to the fringe of the News & Record parking lot, which served a higher purpose this weekend than its normal role as a nondescript piece of urban sprawl.

The city has one more of these before it moves on to the next city, and a fine trajectory has been set.

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Clockwise from top: Bill Kirchen put on a guitar clinic over three sets in two days. Nathalie STALLONE FRAZIER Pires enchanted with traditional Portuguese fado. Grandmaster Flash played a Sunday afternoon set that paled in comparison to his joint the night before that saw more than 5,000 people, but it still scratched an itch.

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disembodied voice originating from the rear of the plane made the announcement ringing through the dark like a mourning bell.

“The Panthers lost,” the man’s voice said. The sound in the pressurized cabin felt compressed, squishy, but all could hear the sad news

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clearly.

“The Panthers lost,” he repeated, mainly to himself.

“Lost the game-winning field goal.”

I shook my head.

“Dammit,” I said aloud, also mainly to myself.

“Damn it all.”

Sept. 8 began the 2016 NFL season. The first game represented a new experiment in scheduling, one perhaps never repeated: a Super Bowl rematch.

It was a game I’d waited for half a year with bittersweet apprehension. And I could watch hardly any of it. The worst part might have been that I wasn’t even with my crew.

I was en route to a town without a professional sports team, despite the fact that the city is the capital of a state where football is religion, from Friday lights to Monday nights. I was on the way to Austin, Texas with my mom to celebrate my sister’s birthday.

I got to see only a few minutes of play through the glass storefront of the Stock Car Café in Charlotte Douglas International Airport: a Panthers drive ending with Cam Newton’s record-breaking rushing touchdown. That score, by the way, set the record for most QB rushing touchdowns and most games with both a rushing and passing touchdown.

But as we flew into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, I realized just how literally football dominates the landscape in Texas, so much more than basketball can mark North Carolina. It even defied one of my favorite travel phenomena.

Whenever I’ve traveled — to New York, Chicago, Boston — I’ve always noticed how many baseball diamonds pepper the landscape of the metropolis I’m visiting. Even at night, they shine through the darkness.

Not so in Texas. No, in the Lone Star State, there was

Where football is church but one bright gem beaming at midnight: the gridiron of Darryl K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, where myths like Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams ran the rock and Vince Young led offenses to unbeaten seasons and national championships. The stadium capable of holding a mind-boggling 100,119 fans is a cathedral devoted to college football, an immense symbol as visible across the UT campus as the Texas State Capitol, and one arguably as important.

I’d never been to Austin, but Hannah has been earning her PhD in rhetoric there for three years at the University of Texas. Yet she hadn’t been to a Longhorns game until Sept. 4, the 2016 opener.

She couldn’t believe the immensity of the crowd; she likened it to Rome’s Colosseum, emphasizing its similarity to nearly blood-and-guts, gladiatorial spectacle.

“I remember being there, and I remember a bunch of yelling,” she said over breakfast tacos. “But I don’t really remember the game.”

“Nobody watches the game,” her boyfriend Reagan said.

Hannah paused to throw some shade.

“Honey, of course they do,” she scoffed.

I figured someone in the stadium paid attention. It was one of the biggest games in Longhorns history — the highest attendance of any home game at 102,315 (over capacity, as close readers may notice), a 50-47 double-overtime upset of the No. 10-ranked University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the glimmer of resurgence by a definitive program that’s seen better days.

The weekend I was there, the Longhorns hosted the University of Texas-El Paso Miners, a cupcake contest especially compared to the opening game.

Football is religion, and it’s on a level bypassing North Carolina’s love of basketball. Sure, 77 percent of Texans claim Christianity as their faith, but Sunday is the Dallas Cowboys’ day or the Houston Texans’ day as much as it is Jesus’ day to them.

And Saturday, typically a day of rest, leaves no break for the weary, especially not in Austin.

You may never understand the hype unless you’re in Texas during football season. Culture revolves around the game. You can access restaurants during prime brunch times because thousands of citizens begin tailgating by 11 a.m. And they tailgate until the game ends — sometimes for a while after. Even attendance

of Austin’s favorite watering holes and honky-tonks, from the Hole in the Wall to the White Horse, stays sparse through twilight into dusk.

But when the game ends, the levee breaks and the party continues.

Hannah’s party was just starting. Her friends trickled onto the White Horse’s patio in the early evening hours of Sept. 10, but many more materialized after the Longhorns gored the Miners 41-7.

Hannah’s friend Teddy — a burly east Texas native, huge Longhorns and Cowboys fan — had woken me up that morning to pick up her season tickets and reappeared decked out in burnt orange. We talked football, and conversation inevitably led to the Panthers game.

“It was a joke,” Teddy lamented. “They kept hittin’ Cam over and over, helmet-to-helmet. An’ when Denver realized the refs weren’t gon’ call ’em on it, well, that jus’ set the tone for the game.”

Something hit me then. I was speaking with a fan who’d witnessed Carolina whip Dallas’ ass last Thanksgiving when Thomas Davis re-broke Tony Romo’s shoulder, effectively ending his career. And he was expressing his condolences to the team that threw his offense into chaos.

I’m not sure if I could do the same against, say, Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils. I feel like that kind of respect can only come from someone who wholly lives and truly loves the game.

It’s a respect I may never know.

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The Grandmaster Splasher — Solo Copius Cupsius: Generally only the male variety of this suds-spewing creature is visible in crowds. He’s the sloshed sidewinder who wends his way to the front of the crowd leaving a sticky trail behind him — usually on your sandal.

The Native Grammarian — Folklorius Pretensius: You know this guy or gal. Also known as Tthe Native Know-it-All, they are usually in volunteer garb (the hall monitors of events like this) and full of copious folkloric details about the performer on hand but with no idea of where the bathroom is.

The Glow Stick in the Mud — Ravius Drunkius: Some creatures, regardless of sex or age or event content, take every post-sundown outing with the general public to mean a re-enactment of the raves of the 1990s by wearing, twirling, drinking or slinging anything that glows in the dark. Most of these items end up in your local landfill.

The Dream Snatcher — Po-Po-ius Bluelightius: Also known as the Dream Police, these elements of authority are often seen traveling in packs, wearing black and giving dozing festival-goers and or lingering homeless the wake up what fors.

The Pottery Barnacle — Claynatius Dirtynailius: These red clay gamblers, mountain mamas and Jugtown jugglers have been throwing pots for so long they are beginning to look like their own work. The pits and crackles and glaze faults of their creations have worked themselves into their kiln-fired faces and hands so skillfully that they themselves are masterpieces.

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The Haute Hippy — Spendsalot Toolookpoorius: The female of this tribe is ubiquitous in college towns, has experimented with both lesbianism and watercolors and has a walk-in closet filled with dung-colored hemp hammocks that she drapes on her sagging frame daily along with sensible shoes that cost more than your Uber driver’s wheels.

The Hackneyed Sacker — Suckedalotius Atskateboardius: Males over 40 doing this in public.

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The Bohemian Catastrophe — Tie Diehardius: Birds of a feather often flock together and you will frequently see these psychedelicately plumed creatures traveling in couple form. Whether they are khaki couples in event splurge tie-dye or whimsically layered unreconstructed hippies, they are never hard to spot.

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host city in many ways.

The free to the public, large-scale, three-day outdoor cultural extravaganza is orchestrated to celebrate the roots, richness and diversity of American culture and this year it brought together more than 300 of the nation’s musicians, dancers, artists and entertainers.

From the granddaddy of hip hop Grandmaster Flash to Texas Telecaster master Bill Kirchen all the way to Québécois hipsters Le Vent du Nord — the talent pool was a melting pot bubbling over with mellifluous sounds, sights, tastes and experiences.

It also brought a veritable clusterfolk of locals, volunteers, artisans and tourists topping the 100,000 marker. Here are a few of the specimens not on the list of performers who are sure to be remembered from this year’s event.

their own catch-and-release system down to a science.

They simply trap you, strap you with an armband and keep you coming back for more.

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Me: It was like God dropped her lacy panties over LeBauer Park.

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Restaurant Lineup Mozelle’s Fresh Southern Bistro 6th and Vine Hutch and Harris Sweet Potatoes Dewey’s Bakery/Blue Ridge Ice Cream Atelier on Trade

Black Mt. Chocolate Bib’s Downtown Meridian Restaurant Mellow Mushroom Milner’s American Southern The Porch

Finnigan’s Wake Providence Restaurant & Catering Local 27101 Quanto Basta Rooster’s A Noble Grille Camel City BBQ

SEPTEMBER 17 & 18 • DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM • TEXASPETEFEST.COM