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What it is, is football

by Brian Clarey

I want to talk about football, primarily because my beloved New Orleans Saints are riding a hot streak (Who Dat, baby!) and also because I’ve got nowhere

else to go.

There are approximately zero football fans among my office staff these days, and my kids have their own brand of passionate disinterest in the sport. When I called my oldest, a freshman at Appalachian State University, to congratulate his school’s Mountaineers on being named to the NCAA Top 25, he had no clue what I was talking about. They have since dropped to No. 37, something that everyone who gives a damn should already know.

But somebody’s watching the NFL besides me and my wife — who became emotionally invested after last season’s tragic playoff loss to Minnesota — despite the legions of goobers who swore they’d never watch again since the whole take-aknee thing, the same folks who put duct tape over the swoosh on their Nikes after what was one of the most impactful advertising campaigns this country has seen in a while.

Television ratings are up for the NFL, despite what Trump would have you believe, because it’s a fantastic product, with

compelling narratives, tight competitions and more or less unpredictable outcomes.

I myself watch NFL games for all those reasons, and also out of habit, allegiance and identity, and because it’s the only sport I have time to follow these days.

Following baseball is like having another job.

I worry about what will happen with football now that it’s become politicized, through the protests touched off by Colin Kaepernick and also the revelation, in 2017, that 99 percent of the men who had played the game at a professional level had chronic traumatic encephalopathy — irreversible brain damage.

My kids aren’t the only ones who don’t care about football. A whole generation of young athletes look to softer sports like soccer, tennis, lacrosse or even baseball to express their talents, leaving the gridiron only to those willing to sacrifice their gray matter to play the game.

It’s important to remember that it is just a game.

And maybe, eventually, the best talent will go elsewhere. And maybe the league will turn into a violent caricature of itself or, perhaps just as bad, a neutered version of two-hand touch.

But we’ve got a spot in Boone for the App State game next weekend, and the Saints are on a six-game winning streak.

I’ll think about next season when this one is over.

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But tonight, we understand that this is not only a Jewish problem. The past few years has seen the ripping open of a vicious underbelly of bias, bigotry, racism, homophobia, sexism and antisemitism in our country. The fabric of American society has been severely torn.

— Rabbi Fred Guttman, in Citizen Green, page 12

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CITY LIFE Nov. 1-7, 2018

by Savi Ettinger

Thursday

Corey Smith @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Gingerbread Craft Fair @ Masonic Center of Winston-Salem, 9 a.m.

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Corey Smith takes the stage for a folksy concert. With more than a million digital singles sold, this country artist is sure to entertain, using elements from alternative for a Southern-rock sound. Find the event on Facebook.

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Sip free cranberry tea and browse products from quality crafters during the 37th annual fair. While the fest goes through Saturday, enjoy lunch or dinner in the café, or pick up fresh-baked goods each day. Door prizes will be up for grabs on the hour. Learn more on Facebook.

Yali Romagoza @ SECCA (W-S), 6 p.m.

Friday Holiday Market @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex, 10 a.m.

Get some holiday shopping done with this weekend long festival.

For 29 years, the Holiday Market has featured vendors ranging from food and wine to arts to home decor. Come out and get some gifts, or something for yourself. Buy tickets and learn more on Facebook.

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Aggie Fanfest @ War Memorial Stadium (GSO), 4 p.m.

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This weekend-long fest offers treats, drinks and other goods from more than a hundred vendors. Jam out to live music including a drumline, and head back on Saturday for the homecoming football game against Norfolk. Learn more on Facebook.

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Join Cuban artist Yali Romagoza in the Main Gallery to view her performance piece, “Monument to a Great Living Artist.” As a piece of Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure, and Pain, this show explores the themes of misogyny and racism as they intersect with the experiences of immigrant women. Learn more at secca.org.

Peter Mastro reception @ Jacob Raymond Custom Jewelers (GSO), 6 p.m.

Delve into the abstract for this artist reception as a part of First Friday events. Meet Pete Mastro and be the first to browse the exhibit or check out jewelry work by Jacob Wosinski. Food will be provided by Climax Kitchen. Find the event on Facebook.

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First Anniversary Purrty @ Crooked Tail Cat Café (GSO), 7 p.m.

The Mel Brooks musical mashes humor with Mary Shelley’s iconic work. The musical mashing humor with monsters follows Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson as he decides to continue the experiments of his grandfather. Performances run through the weekend, with more next weekend. Purchase tickets and more at thelittletheatreofws. org.

Cat lovers be sure to stop by to commemorate a year of North Carolina’s first cat café. Finding homes for adoptable cats from Red Dog Farms has made this shop a staple. Cake and drinks add to the feline fun. Reserve a spot or learn more on the event on Facebook.

Saturday

Timothy Myers Conducts Tchaikovsky @ Stevens Center (W-S), 3 p.m.

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Young Frankenstein @ Scott Dunn Auditorium (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Watch as conductor Timothy Myers leads pieces by Higdon, Mazzoli, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. The conductor excels with broad experience in symphonies and opera and visits the Stevens Center for two performances. Find tickets, and more at wssymphony.org.

9pm Sunday November 4th TV Club: The Walking Dead Season 9 The word is out, Andrew Lincoln will be leaving The Walking Dead in Season 9. So the question remains, how is Rick Grimes going out of the show?!? Find out with an AUDIENCE OF FANS when TV CLUB Presents the newest season of The Walking Dead!

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Celebrate the newest Miss America, Nia Franklin, with a series of events. The UNCSA alum will host a performance and panel discussion earlier, at 11 in UNCSA’s Watson Hall. Then, grab a seat for the parade starting in Bailey Park at 3. For more information, visit Facebook.

Newcomer’s School presentation @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 3 p.m.

Poetry and fiction from both current and former students of the Newcomer’s School are showcased at this reading. As part of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, the event dives into the immigrant experience through the written word. Find out more on the event on Facebook.

Note that while our event space will be ALL AGES for Family Board Game Night, the seating area in our bar becomes 21 & up after 9 p.m.

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Brewery chili cook off @ Porch Kitchen and Cantina (W-S), 3 p.m.

Seven local brewers use their beers in the making of new chili recipes. Cast your vote for your favorite culinary creation, play yard games or just grab a beer. Find the event on Facebook.

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Miss America Nia Franklin parade @ Bailey Park (W-S), 3 p.m.

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Dia de los Muertos @ High Point Museum, 12 p.m.

Even if you don’t celebrate it, come out and learn all about the Day of the Dead with the High Point Museum and the YWCA Latino Family Center. The interactive experience includes sugar skulls, kids’ activities, and honoring loved ones who may have passed with altars. Find the event on Facebook.

Friday November 2nd Family Board Game Nights @Battle Pub They say that the Families who Game together STAY TOGETHER! That’s why Battle Pub will be hosting Family Board Game Night in our Event Space FRIDAYS from 6 p.m. to Midnight.

So come out with your friends and families and enjoy hours of fun from our collection of more than 100 board and card games! Admission is simply a $5 Battle Bucks purchase, which can then be used to buy any food or beverages from our menu.

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Grand Opening @ A Special Blend (GSO), 10 a.m.

The newest local spot for coffee offers both a caffeine perk and employment for people with developmental disabilities. Come out for the ribbon cutting and grand opening, with activities going all day. Enjoy a cup of joe, baked goods, and giveaways. Find out more on Facebook.

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Thursday November 1st Totally Rad Tacos & Trivia The Triad’s biggest, most entertaining pub trivia game RETURNS to Thursday nights at an ALL NEW TIME 7:30 p.m.! $3 buy in, up to six-playerteams! And like every Thursday, Battle Pub offers $1 off all domestic beers and half-off all tacos!

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Cashavelly Morrison

by Jordan Green

The show is lodged in my sense memory for a number I heard the duo at the final Phuzz Phest in April 2016. I’ve of reasons. One, it was my last assignment as a regular loved the quality of the music that suggests Appalachian music writer for Triad City Beat. Two, it was a couple ballads from a century past, and the novelistic texture of nights after the 2016 election, and the atmosphere at the the Morrison’s lyrics. And I witnessed the couple admire Garage was suffused with a sense of shock and dread, but Lera Lynn, for whom they opened that night, and Maalso a warm circle of friendship, as if bound by a pledge cLeod emulate Lynn’s western noir sound, which would that everybody would get through the next four years carry into the new album due this week. together.

But it was that night seven months later at the Garage But mostly it was the music: First, Cashavelly Morrison that helped me forge a personal relationship with the (both the performing name music. It was the end of a good of the singer-songwriter and and satisfying run for me as a the name of the musical projmusic writer, and the beginning ect that includes her multiof a sobering and scary time in a Cashavelly Morrison celebrates instrumentalist husband), broader social context. the release of her new album Hunwhose lustrous and beguiling Beyond the actual horrors of ger at the Ramkat in Winston-Savoice effortlessly filled the the past two years — too many lem on Saturday. The Genuine and room. Then, Ryan MacLeod, to itemize here — from my own said multi-instrumentalist and entirely subjective viewpoint, the the Collection share the bill. husband, whose searching Trump years have not only polarand inventive guitar playing ized the country as a whole but paid the perfect complement strained the bonds of solidarity to his wife’s voice while pushing the music in unexpected among the fractured ranks of the opposition. I sense the directions. Then, the crack band, which that night interrible toll that’s already been exacted. cluded drummer Aaron Bachelder, bassist John Ray and So it’s fascinating to hear the fruits of Cashavelly Morguitarists Daniel Seriff and Luke Payne, who fleshed the rison’s labor over the same period. In addition to a more songs into their full dynamic potential. expansive sound than their 2015 debut, The Kingdom I loved Cashavelly Morrison’s music from the first time Belongs to a Child, the songs on Hunger bloom with the

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cryptic integrity of good short stories, but the concerns of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the March for Our Lives and the election lurk not far below the surface.

I have a feeling I’ll be listening to this album a lot in the next couple months, like getting reacquainted with an old friend. It’s not surprising that the gestation period for this album has been more than three years. The MacLeods are perfectionists, and they juggled recording the album with raising children and earning a living. In many ways, Hunger feels like a document of the damage done, and somehow there’s some strange comfort in taking stock of it.

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Election season is a busy time for president described it on Twitter as “an a guy with a functioning BS detecinvasion of our country.” tor and the wherewithal to point it at There is no migrant invasion, of something. course. But Trump has pledged to send This year, the lies have run so thick 5,000 troops to our southern border as to be almost impenetrable, all in anyway, and this week pledged to issue service of the looming election. That’s an executive order to rescind the part because neither side knows exactly of the 14th Amendment that describes what will happen — only the Russians the terms of naturalized citizenship: know for sure — and If you’re born here, the water is only goyou’re American. ing to get muddier.

You cannot nullify There is no Locally, the largest, the US Constitution migrant invasion, of steamiest plate of by executive order. course. But Trump BS has been served And while I’m at it: up by Rep. Ted The connection behas pledged to send Budd (R-NC) as he tween Trump rallies 5,000 troops to our defends his Congresand rhetoric to the southern border sional seat against MAGA Bomber, the anyway. challenger Kathy temple shooter and Manning. It comes the guy who wouldn’t in the form of a TV shoot white people at ad that somehow the Walmart cannot casts the expenses for Greensboro’s be denied. Also, entitlement spending downtown performing arts center as a does not affect budget deficits. Voter budget loss, and then pins the whole fraud is not, with a few exceptions, thing on Manning. committed by individuals at the ballot But Trump remains the king of BS, box. And Jamal Khashoggi did not and his election-season pile is perhaps pick a fistfight with a group of Saudi his finest work thus far. First, his coopagents. erative media has painted an seasonal Whew. It’s election season, and I’m a migration of poor and suffering people busy guy. into an urgent national crisis. And our

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Outside groups pour millions into 3 pivotal NC Congressional races

by Jordan Green Outside groups are sloshing money into advertising campaigns in an attempt to sway voters in the three competitive congressional races.

The ad has only one purpose: Dampen enthusiasm among people who are otherwise inclined to support Democrat Kathy Manning in the closely matched 13th Congressional District race.

The 30-second television spot, which began running on local stations in early October, superimposes a photo of a triumphant Manning celebrating her Democratic primary election victory over a bird’s eye view of the palatial home in Greensboro’s Hamilton Lakes neighborhood that the candidate owns with her husband. The deadpan narration, coupled with the ad’s imagery, sends an unmistakable message: This candidate and her husband are wealthy elites, and she doesn’t care about ordinary voters.

After the setup comes the body blow.

“Now, they want a luxury hotel,” the narrator intones. “But they want taxpayers to help pay for it. So they got nearly $2 million in government money from Greensboro. But it wasn’t enough. So Kathy took part in a $30 million scheme for a parking garage — next to their hotel.”

The first part of the claim is blatantly false. The second part is merely misleading.

It’s true that Randall Kaplan, Manning’s husband, was part of a hotel development group that stood to benefit from a $2 million incentive package approved by Greensboro City Council in 2014. But the project didn’t go forward, and the partners didn’t collect any of the money. The second part of the claim references a December 2017 vote by city council to approve $30 million to construct a parking deck to benefit the restarted hotel project. The ad cites a Feb. 1, 2018 Triad City Beat story to support its claim.

Viewers might infer that the City Beat story revealed that Manning was “part of a scheme” to obtain support from city council for the project. In fact, the story reported that nightclub owner Rocco Scarfone and two partners alleged in a lawsuit against the city that the developers and Manning as a spouse were “scheme participants” who “improperly influenced city officials” to support the project. The story also quoted a spokes-

person for the developers as saying that the plaintiffs made “outrageous and unsupported claims,” adding that Manning “has never been involved with the hotel project and has never spoken to any city official on behalf of the hotel group.”

The ad omits the fact that the plaintiffs never presented any evidence to back up the claims in court, and voluntarily dismissed the suit in May after reaching an agreement with the city through a court-ordered mediator. Then, in August, Kaplan pledged that all profits from his stake in the hotel go towards a fund to support local charities.

The attack ad was financed by America First Action Inc., a so-called super PAC established in April 2017 to back President Trump’s agenda. Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, joined the committee as a spokesperson and senior advisor in June. After four days, WXII 12 and Fox 8 WGHP stopped airing the ad, but the Budd campaign continued to run an ad that made similar claims. Politifact declared the Budd ad to be “false.”

The America First Action ad attacking Manning over the Greensboro parking deck is part of a slurry of campaign spending by outside groups designed to influence voters’ decisions in three competitive Congressional races in North Carolina, which also include the 9th District outside of Charlotte and the 2nd District in Wake County. The America First Action ad is distinguished not only for its loose relationship with the truth, but also for its cost. The $601,660 media buy stands as one of the highest expenditures of any independent election group in the three North Carolina Congressional races to date.

The Trump-aligned committee has raised $33.9 million since April 2017, and spent $26.8 million of it trying to sway races in favor of Republican candidates. The list of contributors, including casino owners, real-estate developers and energy-company owners, some of whom have spent $1 million or more to finance the committee, seem like unlikely watchdogs for the interests of Greensboro taxpayers. Topping the list is Geoffrey H. Palmer, a Los Angeles developer known for building heavily fortified multifamily housing for the wealthy, who contributed $4 million. Behind Palmer, Lorenzo J. Fertitta and Frank J. Fertitta, two brothers who respectively own Station Casinos

Kathy Manning, the Democratic candidate for the 13th Congressional District, is joined by US Rep. John Lewis.

and Red Rock Resorts in Las Vegas, each kicked in $1 million.

Second only to Republican Mark Harris in the 9th Congressional District, Manning has drawn more negativeadvertising fire than any other candidate in the state’s three most competitive congressional races, as of press time.

To date, the 13th District race has attracted $3.9 million in spending to date by outside groups, including expenditures to oppose and support both candidates, while the 9th District has drawn $2.3 million and the 2nd District has drawn $1.8 million. Spending on negative advertising aimed at Manning totals $1.5 million, compared to $1.0 million spent against her Republican opponent, Ted Budd.

In the 2nd District, Republican George Holding has drawn more than $1 million in negative advertising from outside groups, and in the 9th District, Republican Mark Harris has drawn $1.5 million.

In contrast, Democrat Dan McCready has drawn only $479,725 in negative advertising by outside groups in the 9th District, and Democrat Linda Coleman in the 2nd District has yet to attract any negative expenditures.

Despite setting the pace for spending by outside groups, the contest for the 13th Congressional District, which stretches west from Greensboro and High Point

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out to Iredell County, is not rated by political oddsmakers as the tightest among the three. The website FiftyThirtyEight. com rates the 13th District as “leans Republican,” giving a 2.7-point advantage to Budd. The website gives Republican Holding a higher advantage — 6.5 points — in the 2nd District, and rates the 9th District a “toss-up,” giving a 0.4-point advantage to Republican Harris.

Brandon Lenoir, a political-science and communications professor at High Point University, said that counter to conventional wisdom, negative advertising has been found to increase turnout.

Because attack ads are memorable, he added, they provide voters with information, however inaccurate, that helps them make a decision. But negative ads typically either reinforce partisan leanings or demoralize the opposition, as opposed to influencing voters to switch sides.

“A lot of these types of elections are decided by those people who are weak partisans or unaffiliated,” Lenoir said.

“Both sides are drawing blood. We’re talking campaign strategy here. You win elections clearly by getting the most votes. How you accomplish that is you mobilize your supporters and you discourage your opponents’ supporters. If you can get someone to stay home who supported my opponent, by default that’s

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Mobilizing the youth vote Not all expenditures by outside groups go towards negative advertising.

NextGen Climate Action Committee is the most generous outside group spending money to support Democrat candidates Manning and McCready.

The super PAC has spent $106,897 on ads to support Manning and $76,209 to support McCready out of $51.8 million raised in this cycle. By far, the committee’s largest source of financial support — $41.3 million — comes from California billionaire Tom Steyer, best known for his campaign to impeach President Trump.

“We’re pushing the power of the youth vote, how the number of eligible voters 18-25 is the same as the Baby Boomers,” said Josette Ferguson, the state youth director for NextGen North Carolina.

One of the ads doesn’t even mention Manning or McCready. But the combination of messenger and target audience implicitly leans towards voting

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sylvania to be misleading. The website reported: “While some lawmakers have talked about reducing the growth of those programs to lower deficits, there’s no plan being debated now, and GOP leaders say they don’t think it will be on the agenda this year.”

Last week, Vote Vets, a political action committee that works to elect veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, waded into the 9th District race. The PAC has endorsed Democrat McCready, who served in the Marine Corps. The ad opposing Republican Harris, a pastor, spells out the implications of the candidate’s position in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act, arguing, “Mark Harris supports a healthcare plan that would drive up healthcare costs and gut coverage for the 300,000 people with preexisting conditions that live here.” The ad concludes, “Mark Harris — too big of a risk to represent us in Congress.”

The ad buy cost $574,597. Federal election reports reveal that much of the group’s $11.2 million fundraising total comes from other Democrat-aligned groups, including $514,425 from the House Majority PAC, and labor groups.

“With most negative ads, what they use is messaging that is red meat for their base,” Lenoir said. “The primary attack on Democrats is that they are elitist and out of touch. The primary attack on Republicans is that they are in bed with special interests, and they are self-serving and not responsive to their constituents.”

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Democrat air cover Democratic-leaning groups are also leveraging large contributions from wealthy donors to undercut Republican opponents.

The Women Vote! super PAC has spent $675,025 over the past month on ads to oppose George Holding, the Republican candidate in the 2nd District, and $261,943 against Budd. LCV Victory Fund, a super PAC aligned with the League of Conservation Voters, has spent $374,335 on ads to oppose Budd.

Women Vote!’s top donor is Dr. Karla Jurvetson ($5.4 million), a Silicon Valley physician; followed by Donald Sussman ($2 million), a Florida financier; and Michael Bloomberg ($1.5 million), the former mayor of New York City, and a prominent advocate for climate action and gun control. Bloomberg is also the top donor to the LCV Victory Fund, with a $2 million contribution. As a testament to the overlapping donor lists of Democrat-aligned super PACs, Sussman also contributed $3 million to the House Majority PAC, which has spent $402,751 on ads opposing Budd.

On Oct. 23, Women Vote! released an ad highlighting a 2012 campaign pledge

by George Holding, the Republican candidate in the 2nd District, when he

said, “I’m not going to take any money from special interest PACs.” A narrator cuts in, saying, “But what does Mr. Holding do? He goes to Washington and takes hundreds of thousands from the insurance industry and Big Pharma, and votes to raise our insurance premiums, increase costs for people with pre-existing conditions like diabetes and cancer, and charge older Americans five times more.

“George Holding, North Carolina can’t afford any more of your lies,” the narrator concludes.

The content of the ad closely follows an earlier spot released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of the House Democrats. Campaign finance records on file with the Federal Election Commission indicate that $1.5 million of the $2.7 million raised by the Holding campaign in the current cycle comes from political action committees, or PACs, corroborating the claim made by the ads.

The largest share of negative advertising against Mark Harris, the Republican candidate in the 9th District, comes from a group called Patriot Majority USA. The website for the 501(c)4 nonprofit describes the group’s mission as “to protect American freedom, resist authoritarianism, and create jobs and economic opportunities, while restoring the American Dream for all families.” The Democrataligned group, which is legally considered an “independent expenditor,” has not disclosed its donors, despite spending $22.6 million in the current cycle to oppose and support candidates. On Aug. 3, the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling ordering such groups to report contributions. The guidance issued by the Federal Election Commission earlier this month requires independent expenditors to report all contributions going forward.

Patriot Majority USA has spent $944,060 over the past month on advertising to oppose Harris. The “Simple Protections” ad released by Patriot Majority USA on Oct. 1 assails Harris for supporting the tax cut signed into law by President Trump last December, arguing that it “could force a $500 billion cut to Medicare and Social Security.” Charges that the Republican tax cut will result in cuts to Medicare and Social Security, both popular entitlement programs, have been a common talking point among Democrats. FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, deemed a similar claim in an attack ad against a Republican candidate in Penn-

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Republican firewall The conservative Club for Growth Action PAC has also spent money to oppose Manning, along with negative advertising against her Democratic counterpart, Dan McCready, in the 9th District. Club for Growth’s ad opposing Manning points out her past political contributions to Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians in an effort to undercut the candidate’s pledge to vote against Pelosi for House speaker — part of a strategy to position herself as an independent who puts country before party. And on Oct. 24, the PAC unleashed a $435,000 ad campaign called “Dirty” focusing on McCready’s solar-energy business, and attempting to link campaign contributions to supposed tax breaks that the candidate received.

Club for Growth Action spent $498,988 in early 2016 to support Budd,

helping the candidate break out of a crowded pack of 13 candidates in the Republican primary. And this year the PAC — whose top donors are Richard Uhlein ($5 million), owner of the Chicago-based shipping materials company Uline, and Jeff Yass ($2 million), managing director of the Philadelphia-based global trading firm Susquehanna International Group — has spent $502,364 to help Budd defend his seat.

David McIntosh, Club for Growth Action’s president, said North Carolina is one of the top two or three states for the organization’s members in importance for this election cycle. McIntosh said donors took note from the start that Democrats were targeting the 13th and 9th districts, and sought to counteract Democratic mobilization by supporting Budd and Harris, whom he called “strong economic conservatives.”

“If both of them win, you’ve got a larger group of fiscal conservatives in the House who will be able to do a better job of standing up to [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and the other Democrats in the Senate,” McIntosh said. “If they were to lose, that’s key to Democrats winning control. A lot’s at stake in terms of who controls the House and sets the agenda.”

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a vote for me.”

Negative emotions often make a more lasting impression than positive messaging.

“In studying voter behavior and studying campaigns, emotions are very powerful, and the most powerful emotions are fear and anger,” Lenoir said. “It’s really hard to counter fear and anger with a positive message. Oftentimes what ends up happening in a campaign is if one side is attacking, the other side will cry foul and say, ‘The other side is dirty.’

They try to reframe it where it’s a reflection of the candidate doing the attacking rather than the deficiencies of the candidate being attacked.”

That’s the tack taken by the Manning campaign in response to the tandem attack by the Budd campaign and America First Action over the parking deck. In an ad called “Pulled” that launched on Oct. 26, a narrator says, “Ted Budd’s attacks are so dishonest, two local TV stations concluded they’re false and pulled them off the air.” The narrator continues, “But lying isn’t the only way Budd went Washington,” going on to accuse the candidate of taking trips funded by “special interests,” who received favorable legislation from Congress. The ad concludes, “Ted Budd’s gone Washington in the worst way.”

A comment from the Manning campaign for this story echoed the messaging in the ad.

“Congressman Budd and his allies are trying to buy this race and deceive voters with millions in outside, special interest spending on false attack ads,” Communications Director Hailey Barringer said.

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Democrat. The ad couples footage of a young, African-American man performing a pirouette with audio from a recent speech by former President Obama saying, “There are more eligible voters in your generation than in any other.

Which means your generation has more power than anybody to change things.”

Other ads paid for by NextGen educate young people on what Congressional representatives do and positively contrast Manning against Budd, Ferguson said.

Ferguson said the committee employs six organizers working on college campuses to register voters, explain the purpose of voting and mobilize them to participate in early voting or vote on Nov. 6. The committee has spent $202,203 in North Carolina since early 2017, most of which has gone to cover organizers’ salaries.

Consistent with the demographic NextGen seeks to mobilize, the committee is focusing on digital platforms.

“Hulu and Pandora and Spotify,” Ferguson said. “Any place you can put a digital ad.”

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Top spenders in North Carolina’s 13th, 9th and 2nd congressional districts

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1. Club for Growth Action: $1,207,879 — pro-Budd (R-13), anti-McCready (D-09), anti-Manning (D-13) 2. Women Vote!: $1,151,993 — anti-Holding (R-02), anti-Budd (R-13), pro-Coleman (D02)

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Wade attack ad tars opponent with migrant caravan

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An attack ad aired by Republican Trudy Wade’s campaign selectively highlights a handful of people from Mexico, El Salvador and Haiti who illegally voted in the last election to whip up fear around immigration.

Opponents of Republican Sen. Trudy Wade are speaking out against her recent political advertisement.

A 30-second ad running on Greensboro-area TV stations targets immigrants and plays on fears of the “migrant caravan” approaching the US-Mexico border and concerns about voter fraud.

A few local Democrats are crying foul.

“Trudy Wade should be ashamed of herself for putting this out,” said Catherine (Kelly Jo) Netter in a post on Facebook. She shared the ad after watching the CBS Sunday morning show on WFMY News 2.

“When speaking you should always consider your audience,” Netter said.

“Some people are not mentally stable when interpreting this type of racial rhetoric as has been seen in our communities when this type of propaganda is answered in gun violence by someone thinking they have been called to stop what Trudy Wade is describing in this campaign ad.”

Netter, a vocal opponent of Wade and one of Democratic candidate Danny Rogers’ campaign staff members, called the ad “not only irresponsible, but dangerous.”

The video opens with scenes of what the ad calls “a mob of illegal immigrants marching towards our border” then cuts to images of Wade’s Democratic op-

ponent, Michael Garrett. The ad claims that Garrett knew about 19 “illegal immigrants” who were charged earlier this year after an investigation by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement found that they had voted illegally in the state during the 2016 election. The ad then points out in block letters three specific nationalities from the list of those arrested: Mexicans, Haitians and Salvadorans. The ad continues to say that Garrett opposes a proposed constitutional voter ID amendment on the ballot this year. The ad wraps up by rallying supporters to vote for the amendment and makes statements like, “Only you can stop the mob,” and, “Only you can protect your vote.”

Many who watched the video on Facebook expressed concern over the ad’s highly racialized fearmongering messaging, especially given the recent politically-motivated attacks like the bombs sent to Democrats and opponents of President Trump and the mass shooting at a Jewish synagogue over the weekend.

The Wade ad targets the three nationalities, which constituted six out of the 19 arrests. The 11 other nationalities on the list are those from the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, the Philippines, Panama, Guyana, Grenada, Japan, Italy, Korea, Germany and Poland.

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Communications Committee shows that Wade is also running the ad on WXII and WGHP and has spent almost $200,000 to run the ads on the stations from mid-October through Election Day. Garrett says he’s not surprised by the ad.

“Senator Wade’s entire campaign has been juvenile and in the political gutter,” he said. “If you look at her entire her campaign, it is a last desperate gasp from a desperate career politician who will say anything to achieve power.”

Garrett, who garnered nearly 47 percent of the vote in a losing bid against Wade in 2016, says the one thing the ad gets correct is his stance on the voter ID. “In my opinion, it’s a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist,” Garrett said. “It discriminates against the poor and the elderly. The whole argument from this General Assembly has never been about voter security. The true motivations have been about keeping certain people from voting.”

While the federal investigation found that 19 foreign nationals had voted illegally, more than 4.7 million votes were cast in the state in the 2016 election, making the percentage of those who voted illegally a miniscule 0.0000039 percent of the voting population.

Calls and messages to Wade’s office were not returned for this story.

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They filled the sanctuary at Temple Emanuel beyond its 900-person capacity. Some of them sat on the floor in the aisles and others took seats in the wings or milled in the foyer.

The line of cars heading towards the Greensboro synagogue

by Jordan Green backed up two blocks on Jefferson Road, sending attendees down side streets in search of parking.

A rough survey of the crowd gathered to remember 11 Jewish worshipers massacred during Shabbat services on Oct. 27 at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh revealed that roughly three in four were non-Jews. Clergy from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu faiths came to honor the victims and the divine light that holds all life sacred.

Dozens of politicians of both parties, from Mayor Nancy Vaughan (D) to US Rep. Mark Walker (R), salted the crowd. Fred Guttman, the senior rabbi at Temple Emanuel, gave them an opportunity to state their name and the office they hold — or the one they seek as a candidate — but admonished the audience that it wouldn’t be appropriate to applaud them.

Guttman’s words were pointed. The massacre was a “wake-up call,” he said, alluding to the shooter’s post on the social media platform Gab indicating that his crime was motivated by a hatred of the organization Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which he accused of bringing “invaders” to the United States. Guttman said the massacre “came in the midst of an incitement of fear against immigrants — men, women and children — whose only desire is to come to this blessed land. The fear of an immigrant mob seeking to overtake our country is not well founded, and appeals to the basest prejudices of many.”

Anti-Semitic events have increased by about 60 percent over the past two years, by the count of the Anti-Defamation League.

“It was slightly more than a year ago when Klansmen and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville saying, ‘Jews shall not replace us,’” Guttman recalled. “We have also seen politicians demonizing wealthy Jewish donors and the so-called ‘Hollywood elite.’ These dog-whistle attacks deserve to be called out for what they are: vicious appeals to the worst impulses of antisemitism. Whenever we see attacks on people like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and others, we should realize that by pointing out Jewish donors only, candidates for office, politicians and our leaders are encouraging antisemitism.

“But tonight, we understand that this is not only a Jewish

problem,” he continued. “The past few years has seen the ripping open of a vicious underbelly of bias, bigotry, racism, homophobia, sexism and antisemitism in our country. The fabric of American society has been severely torn.”

He pledged that “Jews will not cower in fear.” He said Jews will continue practicing their faith and following the tradition of tikkun olam, which means “to repair the world.”

Later, when the Rev. Julie Peeples read a statement from the Greensboro Faith Leaders Council calling “on all elected officials to publicly reject the hate speech and fearmongering so prevalent in our current political climate,” the crowd responded with sustained applause. And when she followed by saying, “We publicly denounce the rising tide of white nationalism,” they rose to their feet.

Despite the unity of spirit at Temple Emanuel, there was little sense of safety. And nor should there be.

Kathleen Belew, whose masterful book Bring the War Home traces the history of the white power movement from the Greensboro Massacre through the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that the Pittsburgh shooter was clearly motivated by white power ideology, whose components include not only antisemitism, but also “anti-immigration, white supremacy, white theologies and violence.” To ignore the other components “contributes to understanding such events as one-off attacks, acts of lone wolves, madmen, etc.,” she wrote.

“The historical archive shows us that these events tend to be connected not only to one another, but to more publicfacing rhetoric and activism.”

For antifascist activists who have been tracking and combating the rise of the so-called alt-right since Trump’s election, the carnage at Tree of Life comes as bitter and sorrowful vindication.

Emily Gorcenski, a data scientist who was drop-kicked by a member of the white supremacist group Rise Above Movement during the torch rally at the University of Virginia on Aug. 11, 2017, issued an anguished tweet storm hours after the Pittsburgh shooting.

“There will be more of this,” she wrote. “Some of us put everything in our souls to fight against this. I don’t know what to tell you right now. I don’t have words. I just have the body of work I’ve dedicated the past two years of my life to. We have to fight, we have to pick sides, because his won’t get better. I put every moral weapon in my arsenal into play to try to prevent this. I shouted about Charlottesville. I shouted about the court cases. I shouted about the terror networks forming in plain site on Gab…. All of this to say: This was preventable. We could have prevented this.

We could have stopped this.”

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Over the weekend a public shaming they used picket signs and fliers to spread of sorts took place across several socialthe word about the fascists among them media threads and channels, concerning and those who empowered them.

Greensboro tattoo artist Jason Spainhour, Now we just put them on blast. who posted a “Proud Boy” forearm text These social consequences — created, tattoo to his Instagram. developed and enforced ad hoc by the The Proud Boys — a violent, racist and outraged public — become a powerful chauvinistic faction of the movement tactic when willing participants are able loosely defined as the alt-right — sent a to be mobilized so quickly. It’s a moderncrew earlier in October day version of tarring and into Manhattan, where feathering. they engaged in a It wouldn’t have worked street brawl outside the if people in Greensboro — Metropolitan Republia blue city with a history People are begincan Club on the Upper of civil-rights action and, ning to realize that not unrelated, race-related East Side.

Spainhour has violence — didn’t sense it’s not enough to publicly apologized for an imposing threat in the it, to varying degrees Proud Boys and their ilk, plead ignorance of satisfaction from the who clearly have no place when it comes to outraged. And there’s here. some fertile ground to The lesson of the fascism and those Spainhour be mined here about incident is this: who perpetrate it. the power of symbols, Pushback works. Spainparticularly in politically hour expressed regret The policy is zero charged times, and the on social media for his responsibility of those decision. Thousands of tolerance. And it’s who truck in them.

Triad residents now realize time to take a side. who the Proud Boys are But there’s a larger point here, one that and have become aware of goes beyond a local their despicable presence Proud Boy and a tattoo among us; many are at artist trying to make a work ferreting them out. buck, having more to do with the social People are beginning to realize that climate, the speed of communication and it’s not enough to plead ignorance when the power of pushback. it comes to fascism, its iconography and This has happened before, of course. philosophy, and those who perpetrate it.

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CULTURE From the Jukebot, an annual masquerade

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glowing, green Venus flytrap twisted its hips in a corner while Frida Kahlo swayed back and forth, her red-flower crown accentuating her face. A few feet away, a handmaid dressed in a bright red dress with obligatory white hat gazed towards the stage while a giant inflatable dinosaur awkwardly bumbled around the corner. Despite the rapidly dropping temperature and close-to-freezing rain outside, they had all dressed up to come see Jukebot, the annual Winston-Salem Halloween group at the Ramkat on a recent Friday evening.

Moms and dads and teachers and salesmen shed their customary garb and had instead, shown up as the Queen of Hearts or the Mad Hatter. It’s the one night a year, around Halloween, that Winston-Salem gets a little weird. Well, weirder. And they like it.

Jukebot, which is more of a collective than a band, transcends genres, playing everything from rock to punk to metal and even a little pop. The group has been playing the Halloween show for five years and this year’s show at the Ramkat would be its sixth.

James Tuttle, the former guitarist for Winston-Salem’s claim-to-fame punk band Codeseven and Echo Crush, says that Jukebot is more than just a concert and can better be described as “one big party.” In fact, he claims that it was the best party the city has seen in years.

Inspired by the Halloween party that the Werehouse (now Krankies Coffee) put on every year, a group of musicians from Winston-Salem bands like Codeseven, Echo Crush, Uzzard and Mortimer decided to start their own party a week before the legendary Werehouse event and host it at the nowdefunct Garage.

“We didn’t want to try to compete,” says promoter Tucker Thorpe, the former owner of the Garage. “But some friends came up to me and said that they wanted to do a Halloween party too but one that was more heavy, more rock and roll. We’re children of the ’80s, and we’re influenced by the ’90’s and 2000s you know? We’re all a little bit emo.”

Tuttle admits that after the Garage closed at the end of 2017, he wasn’t sure Jukebot would survive.

“We originally thought we weren’t going to continue,” he says. “But then the Ramkat opened up and we got one night to get together again.”

Many of the members of Jukebot no longer play music regularly. They have other jobs, families, different lives.

Dan Marshall, a Jukebot founder who played in Uzzard and Mortimer, was dressed

Jukebot hosts an annual masquerade of weirdness and rock that began from the dregs of the Halloween party at the old Werehouse, then moved through Tucker Tharpe’s Garage before landing at the Ramkat.

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as Leatherface and was excited that the project had found a new see some of their favorite band members taking the stage again after home. a year.

He now works in IT testing software and Jamie Leighthal and Chris Livengood plays music when he has the time. For him, jumped up and down at the very front of Find out more about Jukebot on the Jukebot Halloween show is the one night the room, pressed up against the stage. of the year that he gets to really let loose.

Chafin, who sing-shouted lyrics from the group’s Facebook page by “It always draws us back in,” Marshall says.

Led Zeppelin and the Cars, pointed the searching @JukebotNC. “The ambiance, the overall feeling.” couple out during a break between songs.

“It’s a Winston-Salem tradition,” adds “Hey! Shout out to Chris and Jamie.

Chris Chafin, the vocalist for Echo Crush.

They got married last year!” Chafin ex“We get to dress up as adults and get goofy.” claims, his skull face paint slowly melting from his sweat. “We missed As the group took the stage, the crowd began to cheer, excited to you guys last year.”

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“Trade Street had nothing back then,” continues Leighthal. “The growth has come from those punk curb kids hanging out.”

The two, who own Ember Audio and Design, a specialized audio shop, say that Jukebot allows them to fully be those punk kids again.

“They give everyone permission to enjoy themselves,” Leighthal says. “You can be a dork over metal. It’s like communion.”

“It’s the closest thing we have to church,” Livengood concludes. “It’s really loud musical therapy.”

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The newlywed couple who recently moved back to Winston-Salem after living in San Francisco, said they wouldn’t have missed the Jukebot show for anything.

“Jukebot is life for us,” says Leighthal, who was dressed as a warmlooking panda. “We cried when we missed it last year.”

Both Leighthal and Livengood say they grew up in the city and watched the punk community contribute to the city’s growth.

“Winston-Salem’s growth can be attributed to the ’80s and ’90s punk-rock spaces,” Livengood says.

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CULTURE A Triad holiday pie sampler

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s the holidays approach, the recipe books get dusted off. Halloween, centered around candy, passes, and as the final months of the year arrive, all thoughts turn to the comfort of pie.

Often the dessert table bears no leftovers. As the cold weather comes in, local shops To Your Health, Sweet Shoppe and Spring Garden Bakery prep for fall pies to brighten dining rooms.

Sweet Shoppe, a High Point bakery, has been turning out pies and other pastries for 72 years. The shop opened in 1946, focusing on quality baked goods.

The Georgie Porgie hits off year-round — a thin layer of white cake underneath a chocolate-chess pudding and German chocolate icing. Other pies featured include their pumpkin and sweet potato.

Made from a recipe thought up in the ’70s, the sack apple pie leaves customers counting down the days until autumn.

The bakery forgoes the pie tin in favor of baking the apples, picked in the North Carolina mountains, in a bag to help retain as much moisture as possible. They then top the juicy apples with a crumble of butter and sugar to finish it off.

Though reminiscent of a cobbler, the sack apple remains the star of the Sweet Shoppe show, and has been a bestseller for years. The classic taste reminds patrons of simple delights and days gone by.

In Greensboro, Spring Garden Bakery showcases an assortment of different items each day but features a few pies especially for the season. The whole pies promise freshness, as they are made to order. The shop prides itself on foot traffic and offers slices in shop the week of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

They find the most popular order to be pecan, and amp up the recipe for the cooler months with bourbon mixed into the filling, along with chocolate chips. The bourbon kicks the flavor up a notch, presenting warmth for the winter.

The locally-owned family bakery offers traditional fruit pies but blends a variety for their Harvest Fruit pie. Blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and cherries come together for one of their most popular treats. The combination stands out as a timely dessert, with the spices and seasonings one would find in a pumpkin pie melding with the natural zest of the berries.

In Winston-Salem, To Your Health Bakery aims to make the table more accessible — but just as delicious — for those with dietary restrictions. Year round, the shop specializes in glutenfree and vegan treats, catering to those with allergies and sensitivities who still want to satisfy their sweet tooth.

Baker Anna Simeonides dreamed up a homerun from meshing her two childhood favorites — pumpkin and pecan. She enjoys the flavors so much she requests them for her birthday each year. The pumpkin praline pie folds pecans, candied in shop, into a creamy pumpkin filling, balancing crunchy and

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smooth textures.

Cranberries in a signature apple pie offer another option.

The taste draws inspiration from the holiday of Thanksgiving, and cuts sugar with a bit of natural tartness.

For those who prefer non-fruit pies, the s’mores pile a homemade toasted marshmallow on top of French silk chocolate. This fall is the first time it will be available in whole pie form. Like everything else on the menu, each pie is made from scratch without additives, preservatives, or corn syrup.

It only helps that, as her co-worker said, the baker “dreams in food.”

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The classroom is both the setting and the art itself for a night at None of the Above: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipelines on display at the Greensboro Project Space.

Change, especially institutional change, is slow and shaky but there are signs of progress. As of December 2019, the state will cease automatically charging 16- and 17-year-olds as adults; until then North Carolina still has the lowest age of juvenile court jurisdiction among all states that specify a minimum age. Six-year-olds can still be tried in delinquency court for “disorderly conduct.”

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among a storm of individual testimonies, research findings and juvenile disorderly conduct petitions filled in with infractions or which real North Carolina students faced legal consequence: firing a spitball, bumping into a teacher, pulling an arm out of the principal’s grasp and missing the trash can.

One paper cutout reads: “In one North Carolina county, 6.6% of white students were suspended for first-time dress code offenses as compared to 38.3% of black students.” The use “There’s nobody wealthy getting prosecuted,” an attorney of infants also serves to remind viewers that 13-year-olds are says. “It’s poor kids. It’s overwhelmingly children of color. Our more child than adult and implies that these courts are a dumping grounds for students’ fates were somewhat sealed upon social problems that if you have birth into a certain racial caste. means are going to be dealt with Learn more at “We live in a society that’s very punishin some other way.” greensboroprojectspace.com oriented,” a juvenile justice staffer says. “Why? According to KidsCount Data Because that’s easier than looking at our own and hiddenvoices.org.

Center, approximately 1 in 4 roles in how the system got set up. By punishNorth Carolina children live in ing someone, we disconnect them from everypoverty and half live in lowone and drive them away. It sends the message: income households. Jennifer Feather, a UNCG English profes‘You don’t belong here,’ and that’s a terrible message to send sor, takes on the role of a legal aid attorney who underlines to a young person. If all you have is a hammer, every child will the United States’ long history of withholding education to look like a nail.” preserve a white supremacist socioeconomic caste system.

After the performance attendees mosey through the ex“People talk about the school-to-prison pipeline like it’s a hibit, then out into a cold drizzle, and the classroom quiets on new phenomenon,” she says. “Really it’s a new phrase for a its last evening in town. The mouths of cold metalloid desks 400-year-old problem.” whisper: How many more stories do we need?

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sea of vertical portrait photographs — a teacher wagging a finger, students sullen and jubilant — envelop the growing crowd, two rows of school desks and a teacher’s model. Notebooks lined with real students’ stories sit inside. Collages of statistics and poetry decorate the desktops.

This scene rests in the Greensboro Project Space which hosts None of the Above: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipelines, an interactive exhibit that is the outcome of Hidden Voices’ 3-year collaborative multimedia project exploring race, poverty and incarceration through the lens of education policy in North Carolina. The evening of Oct. 26, Greensboro locals wove performance art into the exhibit as they embodied students, teachers, parents, school resource officers, advocates, community organizers, defense attorneys and incarcerated people during a series of monologues in front of an intimate audience. Hidden Voices’ founder and director Lynden Harris wrote the scripts based on scores of interviews with North Carolinians in more than 20 counties.

They spoke of long-term suspensions and “zero tolerance” policies, directing funds to police officers instead of school counselors. Some voluntary actors are more comfortable wielding the mic than others, more artful in their delivery, but each display certainty in their moral righteousness. A defense attorney’s monologue mournfully decries these practices as “terrorism against young people, an assault on the bodies, minds and spirits of the very kids who are most vulnerable in the first place.”

In 2016, African-American children represented only 25 percent of the population below age 18 but were subjected to 49 percent of delinquency complaints and 63 percent of detention center admissions, according to the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Numbers tell but a fraction of the story.

“There’s money attached to keeping people uneducated,” a black mother’s monologue says. “Some of the same people up high making decisions… they’ve got ties to companies making orange suits for prisoners. Ties to security companies…. You want to talk about gangs? They’re gangs. They’ve got their own little system and they write their own rules. So, what I wanna know is who’s gonna fix the gangs at the top?”

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Show | 7:30pm / Doors | 6pm

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, John Berry, rose to stardom on the country charts of the ’90s with such mega hits as Your Love Amazes Me, Standing on the Edge of Goodbye, and She’s Taken a Shine. His 22nd annual Christmas tour will brighten the holidays for thousands, as will his stunningly beautiful rendition of O’ Holy Night. Perfect for the entire family!

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RYTHM BILLY Show Tickets & Gift Certificates Available.

QUEEN’S OF THE “CRASH” DANCE CARTOONISTS CRADDOCK Acts and dates are subject to change. For tickets and updates, go to HighPointTheatre.com or call 336.887.3001