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THURSDAY
Jazz Ensemble Concert @ UNCSA (WS) 7:30 p.m.
The Jazz Ensemble of the School of Music at UNCSA presents its first concert of the season under the leadership of recently appointed director Steve Alford featuring big band music of Thad Jones. Purchase tickets and find more information at uncsa.edu/performances
Women In Motion Meet-Up @ Carolina Core Wellness (HP) 8:30 a.m.
Join Women in Motion for a morning of coffee and networking during this meet-up. Register on the Facebook event page
Frankenstein @ Greensboro Masonic Temple (GSO) 7:30 p.m.
Goodly Frame Theatre is excited to announce the production of Frankenstein reimagined by local playwright Jay Smith. Purchase tickets at goodlyframe.org
FRIDAY
Latin Dance Night @ High Point Arts Council (HP) 6:30 p.m.
High Point Arts Council and Vinmark International Dance are teaming up for its International Dance Night Series where you can learn different styles of dance from various world cultures. Learn Latin dances like
salsa, bachata and merengue. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information and to purchase tickets.
Taylor Swift Laser Dance Party @ The Ramkat (W-S) 8 p.m.
Swifties and friends are invited to a two-hour dance party full of hits by the 12-time Grammy-winning pop star. Tickets on sale at theramkat.com
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SATURDAY
Social Saturday @ Paddled South Brewing Co. (HP) 4 p.m.
Come out to Paddled’s social saturday and enjoy mingling and store and drink specials at the Blooming Board, Southerland’s Cigar Lounge and other trolley stops.
Camille Thurman @ SECCA (W-S) 7:30 p.m.
Piedmont Jazz Alliance is hosting a performance by saxophonist, vocalist and performer Camille Thurman. She’ll be joined by the Darrell Green Quartet, providing an evening of soulful jazz melodies. Visit piedmontjazzalliance.com to purchase tickets.
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SUNDAY
High Point Autumn Rowing Festival @ Oak Hollow Lake (HP) 8:30 a.m.
The High Point Autumn Rowing Festival, presented by Bethany Medical and the Lenny Peters Foundation, features rowing competitions between youth, men and women’s collegiate and other divisions. Entry is free with upgrades to the Regatta Lounge available, where you can spectate matches with coffee, lunch, alcoholic refreshments and more. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.
CROP Hunger Walk @ Greensboro Coliseum (GSO) 1:30 p.m.
Greensboro Urban Ministry is hosting the 43rd annual CROP hunger walk to fight hunger and food insecurity locally and globally. Kick-off and registration starts at 1:30 with the walk beginning at 2:30. More information at greatergreensborocropwalk.org
A Totally Paw-some Murder @ Tucker’s Tap Yard (W-S) 7:30 p.m.
Mystery Men Productions invites you to unleash your inner detective and help solve this 80s themed murder mystery. Sorry pups, this fun is for humans only. Purchase tickets at mysterymenproductions.com
MONDAY
The Lab: An Experimental Space for Underground Art @ Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (W-S) 7:30 p.m.
This monthly showcase, curated by the DOSE Artist Collective, allows artists an experimental space to showcase work, develop projects, network professionally and more. Tickets are pay-what-you-can. Find more information at intothearts.org/the-lab
THURSDAY
American Body: The Solo Show @ Stephen D. Hyers Theatre (GSO) 7 p.m.
One-woman show American Body is written and performed by Deonna Keli Sayed. Through eleven characters, Sayed “reveals how size, race, the American diet, and ancestral history intrudes upon our bodies.” Head to Eventbrite to purchase tickets.
Martin Clark, The Plinko Bounce @ Scuppernong Books (GSO) 6 p.m.
Join author Martin Clark for a discussion of his newest book The Plinko Bounce, jam-packed with crime, murder, mystery and more. Visit scuppernongbooks.com for more information.
FRIDAY
Queer Fear Film Festival @ a/perture
cinema (W-S) 8 p.m.
The Queer Fear Film Festival prides itself in showcasing films featuring queer creators, actors, plots and more. Enjoy three days of films divided into a horror shorts block, weird & wild shorts block and light horror shorts block. Learn more about the films and purchase tickets at queerfearfilmfestival.com
Hispanic Heritage Month: Noche de Baile @ Stock + Grain Assembly (HP) 6 p.m.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by dancing under the lights at the Stock + Grain Plaza. There will be live dance instruction, music by DJ Lares, food and more to enjoy. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.
Halloween: The Musical @ WinstonSalem Theatre Alliance (W-S) 7:30 p.m.
WSTA is hosting an “off-beat, campy, unauthorized” musical version of the 1978 film. Will you survive the night? Purchase tickets at theatrealliance.ws/box_office to find out.
SATURDAY
2023 Charity Car Show @ Summit
Credit Union (HP) 9 a.m.
All makes and models are invited to show off during this
charity supply drive and fundraiser to benefit BackPack Beginnings and Summit Credit Union’s Hamilton Scholarship Fund. There will be face painting, icy treats and shopping opportunities from vendors Goose on the Loose, 32 N’ Below and others. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.
Public Observation of Annual Solar Eclipse @ Kaleideum (W-S) 12 p.m.
Forsyth Astronomical Society is hosting a public astronomy observation for you to witness the annual solar eclipse. Solar telescopes and eclipse glasses will be provided. Check Forsyth Astronomical Society’s Facebook page for weather updates.
Men Can Cook... with a Twist @ Greensboro Coliseum Piedmont Hall (GSO) 5:30 p.m.
The Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro is hosting its annual Men Can Cook competition with a twist this year. In addition to signature dishes from more than 50 self-proclaimed chefs, try a curated tasting of handcrafted, small-batch wines. Purchase tickets at the door or online at womenscentergso.org
SUNDAY
RWA: No Apologies @ Southside Recreation Center (HP) 2:30 p.m.
Revolution Wrestling Authority is hosting a live professional wrestling event featuring 6-time Impact Knockouts World Champion Angelina Love, Impact Wrestling Superstar Caleb Konley and others. Visit the event page on Facebook to purchase tickets.
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his past weekend, as I went out and about town, I ran into people who thanked me for my work, many of whom I didn’t recognize at first by face.
It’s a good feeling.
As a lot of you know, being in journalism is not a financially lucrative career. Money is not why most of us get into the field. It’s not really for the recognition either, especially as print journalists, who aren’t as visible or recognizable compared to TV anchors or even radio journos whose voices become familiar to their listeners.
Tthe people in the community — the ones who walk the streets, the ones who lead the protests, the ones who show up to city council meetings, to school board meetings, to county commission meetings, the ones who speak out when there’s injustice — we wouldn’t have much to write about.
Our work exists because of you.
Brian likes to think about the work of journalism as two symbols: the lantern and the mirror. One shines a light into the darkness while the other reflects society back on itself. But most times, I like to think about the work that I do as a megaphone. An amplifier.
Our work exists because of you.
I think of myself more like a conduit, a vessel through which stories are told. A translator of sorts.
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We do it because we love it.
Of course, seeing your byline in print is still a thrill all these years and articles
So when people thank me on the street or send notes of gratitude, I always thank them back and save them when I can.
But I wanted to take some time to thank you, too.
Because really, without the work of
And like a vessel, my role is to hold things and let them pass through me. As a translator, to make stories more easily understood and digestible. But I’m not creating the story. That’s on you.
So thank you for the work that you do. For the efforts that you put into this community to make it better. Because I wouldn’t be here doing what I do, without you doing you.
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me personified as food. It’s my history and my family’s history in Virginia and what it means to be Asian American in the
Trigger warning: This article describes acts of racial terror including a lynching and a police killing.
hat do we hope to uncover from soil?” asks poet Demetrius Noble, his voice steady, echoing as he stands in the sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro on Sept. 30. “What answers might we discover from our toils of digging dirt and enshrining earth? And memorializing the massacred? What are we after?”
He’s positioned himself in the crossing of the church, the glow of mid-morning light working to penetrate cream-colored stained glass windows adorned with deep purple grapes that span the height of the walls.
He goes on.
“Specifically, what answers are hid in this history that we aim to locate upon the bloodied ground of a lynching tree?”
On this Saturday morning, more than 200 people gathered within the church, sitting in the pews to listen to community members commemorate the life and tragic death of Eugene Hairston, Guilford County’s only recorded lynching victim. It happened on Aug. 25, 1887. He was 17 years old.
A dedicated group of activists and scholars — including members of the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project, or GCCRP, who have worked for years to
uncover Hairston’s history — gave speeches that touched upon Greensboro’s ugly history and the effects that Hairston’s murder had on the community.
Much of the work stems from the group’s connection to the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, which works with local organizations to identify and honor lyching victims.
In attendance was Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who spoke about her visit to the museum and memorial, as well as Councilmembers Sharon Hightower and Nancy Hoffman, who also went on the trip. Former Guilford College scholar James Shields’ deep voice rang out through the church walls as he sang Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “Lift Every Voice,” while UNCG student Ruth Hullette reflected on how her whiteness can and should be used to help those who are marginalized.
At the end of the morning’s event, community members took turns pouring scoops of dirt, dirt that was collected from the approximate area where Hairston was hung, into a large glass jar.
But one of the most striking moments that took place on Saturday didn’t happen within the church’s walls or near the lynching site at all. It took place nearly a mile and a half away, where another memorial was to take place.
im McKenzie stooped down to take a look at the rock, running her fingers along its marbled surface. She touched it more than once to make sure.
“You can’t move it,” she said. “It’s solid; it cannot be moved.”
Her face was partially obstructed by shadows cast by the trees that surrounded the rock over which she stood. On its surface, a simple metal plaque read: “This memorial is dedicated in loving memory of Marcus Deon Smith with funds for this dedication provided as an expression of respect and reconciliation by the City of Greensboro.”
McKenzie is Marcus Deon Smith’s younger sister. And since 2018, the same year that the GCCRP and Greensboro councilmembers visited the Legacy Museum, McKenzie has been living without her brother.
Less than an hour after more than 200 people commemorated the death of Eugene Hairston at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, a much smaller group gathered at the Interactive Resource Center to commemorate the new memorial for Marcus Deon Smith. In addition to McKenzie, other members of the Smith family were in attendance, including Smith’s mother, Mary Smith; his father, George Smith; and his brother, Leonard Butler. All had traveled from out of the city to be there because they had been waiting for this day.
As TCB and several other news outlets have extensively reported, Marcus Deon Smith was hogtied and killed by police on Sept. 8, 2018. For much of the last five years, the family had been embroiled in legal battles with the city of Greensboro, fighting for justice, ultimately winning a $2.57 million settlement in early 2022. And on Saturday, one of the final pieces of the story played out as the community gathered to honor Smith’s memory at the newly installed memorial plaque at the day center for the unhoused community where Smith often hung out.
“This can be a place that people can come to understand Greensboro,” said Flint Taylor, one of the attorney’s for the Smith family who flew in from Chicago to attend the event. “To understand the history of Greensboro, to understand what the center means and understand the struggles that are going on now….”
As attendees, some of whom had just come from the Eugene Hairston memorial, paid their respects at the marker, it was impossible to not contextualize both deaths and reflect on how Greensboro has responded to acts of racial terror throughout the years.
After Mayor Vaughan took the time to recite a speech at the earlier Hairston memorial, her absence at Smith’s remembrance was notable. And that’s because the two deaths of Eugene Hairston and Marcus Deon Smith aren’t unrelated; there’s a direct throughline here.
From the first slaves who were forcibly brought to Guilford County’s soil in the mid 1700s, to those who fought against their oppressors during the Civil War, to Eugene Hairston’s killing in 1887, to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement and the A&T sit-ins, to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the 2018 killing of Marcus Smith, Greensboro’s deep and troubled history doesn’t start or end with Hairston or Smith.
“If our efforts are to be more than symbolic and extend beyond a pompous acknowledgement… then we gotta connect the blood spattered dots of Eugene’s Hairston’s lynching to the… mundane monstrosities that we suffer daily,” Noble continued at the first memorial. “What is the historical arc of bloodthirsty madmen mobbing at dark?”
ugene Hairston was at a house in Kernersville, where he lived with his mother, stepfather, three sisters, a baby brother and a boarder, when he was arrested for the attempted rape of a 17-year-old white girl on Aug. 23, 1887. According to old newspaper reports, authorities said “he fit the description.”
After rumors that a lynch mob was forming, Hairston was transported from the jail in Kernersville to one in Greensboro, near where the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant now stands. Less than two days later, a mob of 30-50 white men broke into the church and lynched Hairston from the tree outside, repeatedly shooting his body afterwards.
Later, Hairston’s family traveled from Kernersville to Greensboro by horse and cart to retrieve his body.
Marcus Deon Smith was a 38-year-old unhoused Black man who suffered from a mental health episode the evening of Sept. 8 in downtown Greensboro.
As he staggered along Church Street, police officers stopped him to see what was the matter. Smith told them he needed help. After putting him in one of the patrol cars to take him in for a mental health evaluation, Smith became panicked and eventually was let out after kicking the car windows. Right afterwards, police restrained Smith using a Ripp-Hobble, hogtying him with his chest to the ground and hand and ankles strapped together behind his back. He died before he reached the hospital.
While Smith was killed at the hands of police in Greensboro in 2018, 131 years prior, police did little to nothing to stop the white mob that came to take Eugene Hairston from the Greensboro jail.
Newspaper reports at the time noted that those in favor of lynching Hairston were “the best citizens in Piedmont Carolina.”
Until body-camera footage came out, the city of Greensboro — including the mayor and police chief at the time, Wayne Scott — continued to push the false narrative that Smith simply “became combative” and “collapsed.”
No mention of Smith being hogtied was included in the first official police press release.
On Sept. 10, 2018, the News & Record printed the words from the press release as fact, noting that “while officers were attempting to transport Smith for mental evaluation, he became combative and collapsed. Both EMS and officers began rendering aid. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died.”
At the Hairston memorial, UNCG student Ruth Hullette connected the dots.
“Eugene Hairston was falsely accused, thrown into prison, kidnapped, tortured, riddled with bullets and finally put on display as a spectacle of fear and intimidation for all to see,” she said. “Today, that mindset manifests itself in things like police brutality…. Guilty until proven innocence, guilty with no chance to prove your innocence.”
In the ensuing years after Smith’s murder, the city spent more than $3.7 million defending the officers who were named in the lawsuit brought against the city by the Smith family. City staff, including members of city council, worked to minimize their accountability and to this day, none have apologized for Smith’s death.
In the aftermath of Eugene Hairston’s death, a grand jury was called to interview witnesses but none of the perpetrators were ever identified or charged.
Seven of the eight officers responsible for hogtying Smith — which was the cause of his death — got merit raises last year. And a condition of the settlement is that none of the defendants must admit liability.
Still, Mary Smith told TCB that she is waiting to hear those words.
“We would like to know if the city of Greensboro will apologize to the Smith family,” she said. Or will it take decades to acknowledge and apologize.”
For the 1979 Greensboro Massacre victims, it took more than three decades.
As part of the unimaginable task of lowering, untying and transporting Eugene Hairston back to their home, members of the Hairston family witnessed first-hand the impact of racial terror on the 17-year-old’s body.
In the case of Marcus Deon Smith, the only member of the family who watched the police body-camera footage was George Smith. Mary Smith has repeatedly said that she didn’t have it in her to watch.
“George had to suffer through something that no father, no person should have to suffer through,” said attorney Flint Taylor at the memorial. “He had to see that video. He’s the man… who learned what happened to Marcus Smith because the city lied; the city wouldn’t tell them what happened. This man, his health has suffered from it, his spirit has suffered from it, but he stood with us. He made it here, he made it everywhere every time, so we have a special place in our hearts for George along with Mary for having the strength.”
On Saturday, George Smith attended the event with an oxygen tank that beeped periodically as he sat in a fold-out chair.
“It wasn’t even about the cash,” George said at the event. “It was about finding out what happened to him. I thought he had had a heart attack, but when I saw the video, I was shocked. I had never seen him like that.”
Mary Smith, the matriarch of the Smith family, congratulated local journalist Ian McDowell, whose book, I Ain’t Resisting, chronicles the Marcus Smith case. Smith said that for her, having everything that happened to her son and her family documented, recalls to her Emmett Till.
“The book kind of reminds me of what Emmett Till’s mother said,” Smith said, paraphrasing. “I want to leave my son’s casket open to let people see what they have done to my child. I want this book to represent the same thing that Emmett Till’s mother felt. I want everybody to know what they did to my child.”
This wasn’t the first time Till’s name had been invoked that day.
In the sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro an hour earlier, Dr. Deborah Barnes asked visitors what they imagined Eugene Hairston to look like.
“I want you to picture Eugene in your mind,” she says. “He died before he could leave a social, political or economic footprint so we will have to make his life up for him. Here’s the little we know: He was Black, 17 and allegedly physically disabled. What does he look like in your mind? Does he look like Emmett Till? Trayvon Martin? Or does he look like your son? Your nephew? Or your neighbor?”
Barnes takes the atrocious historical event of Hairston’s killing and humanizes the boy into existence. If alive today, he would have been a high school kid or one just getting ready for college.
Does he look like Fred Cox Jr.? Nasanto Crenshaw?
Marcus Smith loved playing basketball and often cut hair for people at the IRC. He had plans to one day attend barber school. His sister said that she wasn’t even aware that Marcus was living at an unhoused day center, because whenever she would call to update him on her life, he had nothing but supportive words to say to her.
“He was just always my cheerleader,” McKenzie said. “But he was here, and he had his own people that he was cheering on.”
Now, Smith’s memory lives on in the plaque installed on a small hill next to the IRC’s parking lot.
But as poet Demetrius Noble recited during the Hairston memorial, no amount of commemoration, whether through soil or marble or metal plaque, is enough to right the wrongs of the past or fight the injustice of the future. Instead, he calls for lasting, transformative change.
“If we won’t remain silent, and if we’re serious when we yell, ‘No Justice, No Peace,’ then this dirt demands that we fundamentally change this land, and not just the topsoil,” Noble recites. “But deep down beyond the roots of the tree that Eugene Hairston hung from until we all are free.”
In the first seven months of this year, the city of Greensboro’s Behavioral Health Response Team responded to 1,437 calls for service.
“The goal is to decrease interactions with law enforcement officers,” said Latisha McNeil, the manager of the city’s newly created Office of Community Safety. “We didn’t want people calling back repeatedly.”
The behavioral health response team, shortened to BHRT, is the city’s attempt to move away from traditional methods of policing when responding to mental-health related calls. The creation of the unit is a direct response to a national conversation around policing in the wake of the 2020 Uprisings.
Last year, the team responded to more than 1,200 calls and provided almost 1,000 hours of follow-up services, according to city data.
And while McNeil and others associated with the program say it’s working, they say they need more support from city leaders, including more funding, to keep it going.
“Currently we are only able to respond to a limited number of calls,” McNeil explained. “When you look at other similar teams doing this work, you will find that we are severely understaffed.”
According to McNeil, BHRT started in March 2020 as a co-response model in which mental health providers ride along with police on select calls that require a mental health-related response.
The way it works, according to Erin Williams, the lead of BHRT, is when a call comes through 911, the dispatcher can call the team and see if there is a counselor available to respond to a call. Other times, police officers themselves who are listening to the radio can self initiate, meaning they can call the team to request a mental-health professional.
“We are flexible based on needs,” Williams said.
As of right now, the team has only six crisis counselors who work Monday through Friday between 8 a.m-5 p.m. or 1 p.m.-10 p.m. If there’s an incident that takes place outside of those days or hours, police have to respond without the counselors.
On the police department side, there are nine officers who are trained to be a part of BHRT.
“Mental health calls are happening 24/7,” Williams said. “I think our ultimate goal is to have enough counselors where we can respond 24/7.”
Currently, due to the small size of the team, there’s usually just one person working the later shift, meaning that they can only respond to one call at a time in the entire city. They have to triage which calls to prioritize.
“It’s not a great place to be,” Williams said. “If we don’t connect with people during that call-for-service, it’s a 50/50 chance that we’re able to respond and then we miss the opportunity.”
The fix? More money, says McNeil.
According to the 2023-24 adopted budget, the city spent $627,518 to fund the Office of Community Safety for the 2021-22 fiscal year. For the 2022-23 year, the budget increased to $916,940 million. For the 2023-24 year, the adopted budget lists $1.18 million and the projected amount for 2024-25 is listed at $1.22 million.
When looking at other offices in the budget, the Office of Community Safety’s allocation is the fifth on the list, behind the Economic Development and Business Support office ($5.34 million for the 2023-24 adopted budget), the City Manager’s office ($2.89 million), the Office of Sustainability ($2.39 million) and the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs ($2.03 million).
The budget also shows that while the Office of Community Safety has 11 full-time employees, its budget is smaller than other offices who have much less staffing such as the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, which employs 8 full-time employees, and the Office of Sustainability, which has seven.
According to both McNeil and Williams, they say they need more staffing to do the work effectively. In Durham, for example, McNeil said that their team has 47 counselors The city has a slightly smaller population of 285,527 as of the 2021 Census, compared to Greensboro’s 298,263.
An increase in staff would help, especially when it comes to the follow-up calls, Williams said.
“The follow-up is critical and time consuming,” she said. “For example, we have a
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Greensboro safety stakeholders say they need more funding, staffing for current co-response policing model and, potentially, a police-free model
very high utilizer; they call more than 10 times a day. That takes up four hours in my day. And that’s just one person. To do these things that make a difference it takes these chunks of time.”
Right now, just one person on the team is tasked with follow-up calls for the entire BHRT team. According to Williams, he has hundreds on his caseload.
“He is not going to be able to follow up with these individuals on a meaningful basis. At the minimum, BHRT needs to be twice the size that it currently is.”
On Sept. 30, Mayor Vaughan told TCB that the BHRT team “probably could use more funding and use more officers,” but did not state whether there were concrete plans to increase the group’s funding.
Data from across the country has shown that co-response or alternative response models of policing work to decrease negative interactions with police.
According to a study conducted in 2020 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the University of Cincinnati, research found “primarily positive impacts across the outcomes of enhancing crisis de-escalation, increasing individuals’ connection to services, reducing pressure on the criminal justice and health care systems, and promoting cost-effectiveness.”
And at least one significant person in Greensboro wants to take the model even further.
Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson told TCB that he’s excited at the work that BHRT is doing and that he wants a non-police team, too.
“I think [BHRT] is a phenomenal program,” Thompson said. “It’s been two-plus years that it’s been in place and I would like to expand that program to have a non-police response to mental-health calls.”
He pointed to the fact that in the last few months, Winston-Salem has developed their own alternative response team, known as BEAR, that deploys just mental-health counselors on select calls, no police.
As TCB has reported, Winston-Salem’s BEAR team has been in operation since
May and has received 526 calls, as of early August. The city currently has seven crisis counselors as part of the program. The initiative is a 1-year pilot program financed through $700,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funding.
That’s something Chief Thompson wants to see in Greensboro, too.
“I feel like we need to develop that non-police response,” he said. “I think it just takes a commitment from our elected officials to say, ‘We want to fund this program.’”
According to Thompson’s estimate, it would take anywhere from three to five counselors to start such a program.
“I just think it would take some staffing and some money behind it,” he said.
“We’ve talked about the need internally for it,” Thompson added. “I’m not sure if it’s made it over to elected officials for their discussion.”
Mayor Vaughan said that if the chief has an idea to expand BHRT, that the city is open to the idea.
“They’ve got to give us a plan first,” Vaughan said. “When they come up with what the plan looks like, I’m sure we’ll fund it.”
However, Council person Sharon Hightower said that she’s not yet sold on the idea of a completely police-free alternative-response model. Hightower, whose daughter is a social worker, said she wants to make sure counselors who respond to the calls are safe.
“I’m not quite ready to put her in that type of environment without some type of protection,” Hightower said.
In order to do that, both Hightower and Vaughan said they would like to see more training of the 911 operators who would make the determination to send just social workers on a call.
“I think if you talk to 911, they are not necessarily the ones that want to make the call to just send a social worker, and then it goes bad,” Vaughan said. “So they need to be involved in the process as well because they are the first line of first responders.”
“That to me, would require some intense training,” Hightower added. “You can’t just take a four-week course to understand mental health. So I think we’d have to be very careful on how they would direct that call.”
Still, both Vaughan and Hightower acknowledged a need for additional support for officers during mental-health incidents.
“We all agree that police officers are not clinicians,” Vaughan said. “That’s not what they’re trained for, and I think we’ve been told somewhere between 15-20 percent of calls are calling 911 for non-criminal issues. And the sad part is that they just have nobody else to call.”
In the meantime, Thompson said that the police department has applied for a $500,000 grant that would help the city further their behavioral-health models.
“If we got it, we could start to expand that non-police response,” he said.
McNeil agreed with the need for such a program and noted how she hears from police officers themselves who want different options.
“For too long police have stood in the gap of a lot of social issues that weren’t their issues to deal with,” she said. “We have, as a community and as a society, utilized 911 for police to come and do something…. This would give us the opportunity to stand up as a society to help in community safety. Law enforcement and public safety is not just the responsibility of the police; it’s the responsibility of society.”
The BHRT team is housed within the Office of Community Safety, a new city office that was created in September of last year.
“The goal was to provide a space for alternative responses for calls to service and to really provide a place where alternative responses can reside,” McNeil said.
In addition to BHRT, the office also includes the Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission, a violence prevention team and the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD. The justice advisory commission, otherwise known as GCJAC, is the oldest of the four entities, originating in 2018, and is made up of nine city councilappointed community members who identify issues within the police department and make recommendations. In the past, those who have been associated with GCJAC have spoken out about how the group’s recommendations often go ignored and how the group “doesn’t have any teeth” or subpoena power, due to its powers being limited to making recommendations, which city council may choose not to implement. The website for the commission makes clear that the entity does not investigate police department complaints.
The violence prevention team, which is the newest part of the office, employs a model similar to Cure Violence, a national response to gun violence in America. While the city of Greensboro already has a Cure Violence branch, McNeil said at this point, the office isn’t coordinating with the existing group.
“They focus on a specific area and the violence in our city is transient,” McNeil explained. “We knew we wanted to do more to diversify prevention in the city.” Lastly, the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, involves a group of officers who work to keep people out of the criminal justice system by connecting them with social services rather than arresting them.
“Let’s use something like trespassing,” McNeil said. “Instead of an officer charging that person with that, this is a symptom of a much larger issue. So instead of arresting them and taking them to join, what they would do is make a referral to our LEADS program and the coordinator would meet with that person and talk to them about what services they need and see what got them to that spot. It could be a housing issue, mental-health issue, substance-abuse issue. Whatever those issues are, we are trying to connect them with those services so they don’t end up going into the criminal justice system.”
According to McNeil, LEAD began taking referrals and had connected at least five individuals as of the end of August.
All together, McNeil says, the goal of this newly created office is to minimize the community’s interactions with police when it’s not necessary.
“All of these programs, while they may be different in their initiatives, are about creating opportunities to divert someone from interactions with the criminal justice system,” McNeil said. “It’s about providing alternatives.”
But McNeil and others say that in order to have a more robust office, they need more support.
“We need more to be able to do this,” she said.
The city of Winston-Salem will soon be pursuing a new avenue for increasing affordable housing in the city.
During a Sept. 25 council meeting, Interim City Manager Patrice Toney gave the council a look into the city’s future Housing Trust Fund, or HTF.
According to Investopedia.com, HTFs are publicly financed programs specifically designed to increase affordable housing, often operated at the state or local level and aimed at creating low-income and extremely low-income housing.
Toney said that the fund will be created within this fiscal year, which runs from this July to the end of June 2024.
According to the Housing Trust Fund Project, HTF revenues generated by cities across the country exceeded $1 billion in 2018. There are a total of 608 city HTFs nationwide according to the project.
Nearby municipalities such as Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh are already involved in some form of trust fund dedicated toward housing.
The housing developed from Winston-Salem’s trust fund would serve households making less than 80 percent of the area median income, or AMI. According to the city, the median family income in Winston-Salem is $68,900. A family of four with an annual income of $55,100 would qualify.
The types of housing developed by Winston-Salem’s HTF would be multi-family rental, single-family homeownership and rehabilitation/preservation. The affordability period would be 15 years for single-family homes and 30 years for multi-family dwellings.
Both for-profit and nonprofit housing developers would be eligible to apply. The funding cap per project would be $50,000 per door for single-family homes, $30,000 for multi-family dwellings and $3 million for total gap financing.
Toney said that they haven’t yet had a session with developers who are interested in learning more, but that “it’s been really one-on-one” because they range in size from individuals to full companies.
The city could start their fund with around $11 million in seed money using nearly $6 million in unspent housing funds while receiving $5 million from a community donor that, according to Toney, Mayor Allen Joines has been in contact with. In the future, the city could use sales tax, property tax and a potential bond referendum to generate revenue for the fund.
The city needs to choose how funds would be managed: an internal fund managed by the city, or an external legal trust fund managed by a third party on behalf of the city. With the second option funds would be permanently earmarked for affordable housing and unable to be unwound, for example, in the case of a crisis.
Toney proposed the first option with city staff managing the program internally and city council overseeing funding decisions. However, Councilmember Jeff MacIntosh said that an outside organization managing the funds may be a better option because they would have more expertise in this specific type of work.
“The speed at which an outside organization could react is much faster than ours,” MacIntosh said.
Toney noted that if they use an outside entity to manage the funds, they could be more “restricted to their rules,” she said.
“We could manage it in-house, the projects can come before the city council to vote the same way we do now for gap funding — developers come, they apply, fill out an application, internal staff assess the application and then we bring it to the city council,” Toney added.
Councilmember Robert C. Clark requested that each council member be individually interviewed to get their input, and then council members would be “prepared to see a specific item” at the community development/housing/general government committee meeting on Oct. 9.
The HTF “could be done so many different ways,” Toney said.
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Following a Winston-Salem city council decision on Monday, 2.77 acres sweeping the corner of University Parkway and Laura Avenue have been rezoned from a mixture of residential, limited business and highway business designations to strictly highway business, which is primarily intended to accommodate retail service and distributive uses. Council voted 6-2 with Councilmembers John Larson and Robert C. Clark dissenting.
The land, located in the Northeast Ward, is being sold by mother-and-son duo Linda and Scott Needham, who are also partners at Needham Holdings LLC. Scott Needham currently serves as a town commissioner in Pilot Mountain, a town around 20 miles from the property. Linda Needham formerly served as town commissioner and first took office in 2007, according to the Winston-Salem Journal
Northeast Ward Councilmember Barbara Hanes Burke said during the meeting that the Needhams have had a plan to sell the property for years and they were going to sell their property “no matter what.”
In an interview with TCB on Wednesday, Scott Needham said that the reason his family bought the property decades ago was because University Parkway is “a very busy street.”
“It’s our belief that all that property on that street should be commercial,” Needham
said. “It’s just the best use for that property…. It was our intent this whole time to sell that to a developer like we’re doing right now. It was a business investment.”
The rezoning was recommended by the planning board in a 6-3 vote following a public hearing on June 8.
In the wake of the rezoning, the two homes at 106 and 110 Laura Ave. along with Pelican’s SnoBalls and a building that serves as a nutrition shop will be torn down to make way for a bank and a sit-down restaurant.
On Monday around 5:30 p.m., the area was quiet and peaceful, save for the noise from the steady stream of cars heading along University Parkway. Families ordered snow cones from Pelican’s SnoBalls, and the building holding a nutrition shop was closed.
During Monday’s meeting, the city’s Planning and Development Director Chris Murphy said that the proposal “does not meet the recommendations for low-intensity office and single-family residential uses on several of the parcels as shown in the North Suburban Area Plan update.”
Murphy added that while planning staff had recommended denial, the planning board said that the “plan does not comply with recommendations of the area plan.” However, the board “recommended approval anyway,” Murphy noted.
Along with two residential homes, this building that houses a nutrition shop will be torn down due to the rezoning decision. PHOTO BY GALE MELCHEReveral neighbors spoke out against the rezoning during Monday’s meeting. They voiced concerns that the changes would impact the “safety” and “integrity” of their neighborhood. The residents at 106 and 110 Laura Ave. who will have to move out are long-term residents, one of whom is 88 years old, several neighbors said.
“We’re diverse racially, culturally, generationally,” resident Martha Jones said. The neighborhood “includes original homeowners in their 80s and 90s and homeowners with small children.”
Some homeowners have lived there for several decades, Jones said.
“We have a lot of residents who walk their dogs on those streets, they walk to grocery stores, walk to the bus stop, we have one wheelchair-bound resident who uses Laura Avenue,” Jones added.
A petition resisting the rezoning circulated throughout the neighborhood.
Judi Griffin, who has lived in the neighborhood her whole life, 61 years, said that there were a total of 41 households in the area and they got one signature per household.
Communication regarding the rezoning wasn’t great, Griffin said. The initial meeting with the developer was held virtually and the flyers notifying the neighborhood were sent out in English only, she said. This wasn’t helpful for the neighborhood’s population, which includes many elderly and Hispanic residents, she said.
One of the considerations the city must make when considering zoning requests is whether or not the requests align with future plans for the city.
The North Suburban Plan states that area plans convey a community vision and general goals to the Planning Board, elected officials, and other community leaders.
As a general recommendation, the plan asserts that “neighborhoods should be protected from inappropriate residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional encroachment.”
“The development, in my opinion, is the pure definition of commercial encroachment,” Griffin said. “Already some neighbors have spoken about moving if the development occurs, as they’re concerned with their safety and privacy.”
The city has area plans like the North Suburban Plan that are designed to provide assurances to people, Councilmember Larson said. “Neighborhoods need protecting, and this is a perfect example of where we’re changing the rules on them,” he noted.
The developers have plans to minimize traffic by making the entrance and exit points on University Parkway, and using trees as a landscape buffer to reduce sound pollution and increase privacy, but residents still have concerns.
“The best-laid plans will not be able to control the noise and light pollution, the overflow parking issues that might develop, vagrancy [and] nuisance traffic that would be created by a bar restaurant combination this close to a residential neighborhood,” Griffin said.
Resident Yvette Spears said that drivers are already using Laura Avenue as a cutthrough, and worried that the situation may get worse.
“My concern with the possibility of turning this into a commercial area is that people will presume that there is less residential facility back there so there is no need to regard the safety needs of pedestrians or the individuals that live there,” Spears worried.
“This has been one of the most difficult decisions that I have had to make,” Councilmember Burke said, adding that she has talked with the neighbors on Laura Avenue and driven through the community.
“This is a well-established nice community, Laura Avenue is. It is a street where I would live, without question,” she said.
In an interview with TCB after the meeting, Spears quipped, “I wonder if she would live there after [the restaurant] was built.”
Councilmember Larson stood firmly against the rezoning.
“In a time where we are trying to protect housing, I’m having a difficult time understanding why we’re destroying two perfectly good houses and allowing commercial development into a neighborhood that needs protecting and fostering,” Larson said.
TCB asked Scott Needham why they had decided to demolish the existing homes, to which he replied, “I don’t have any comment on that.”
Resident Sherry Cochrane called residents’ homes their “sanctuary.” Soon, they’ll have new businesses as neighbors when they move in next door.
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orth Carolina just got a bit less hostile for people seeking an abortion.
$250,000.
by Brian ClareyAs one of the last states in the South that allowed for safe and legal abortions after the repeal of Roe v. Wade, the NC Legislature passed the Care for Women, Children and Families Act, which became state law after an override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto in May. It made abortions illegal after 12 weeks except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s health, as well as other provisions that further limited access to reproductive healthcare.
On Saturday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that, for now, blocks two provisions of the law: One concerns prescriptions for medicationinduced abortions, commonly known as the morning after pill. The new law said that doctors must “Document in the woman’s medical chart the probable gestation age and intrauterine location of the pregnancy….” Failure to do so could result in criminal charges, including a Class D felony and a fine of up to
“The act does not provide a clear standard by which providers can make this determination, the provision is open to differing interpretations and does not provide reasonable notice of what is prohibited, and providers are subject to arbitrary accusations that they have violated the provision and the the penalties that accompany those accusations,” US District Court Judge Catherine Eagles wrote in the decision.
The other piece concerns the part of the law requiring those seeking exception to the 12-week ban to have the procedure performed in a hospital to protect the mother’s health, rather than in an abortion clinic. In the document, the judge explained that surgical abortion is the same procedure used to manage miscarriages, often performed at Planned Parenthood and other clinics, “and that the risks of those identical procedures are the same whatever their purpose.”
This is what happens when people who are largely ignorant about the basics of reproductive health make laws restricting it. The architects of this bill should be embarrassed about their lack of knowledge. Instead, they’ll likely bounce this back to the courts, hoping to get in front of a judge for whom human biology is as mysterious as it is to them.
First, you want to gently wet the outer edges of the wrapper in a semicircular motion. But not too much water, or the dough will get soggy. Then, carefully add about a tablespoon of filling. Again, not too much, or the parcel won’t hold.
Next, delicately fold the wrapper in half and press the edges together where you applied the water to create a tight seal. If you’re gutsy, you can then fold over the edges, one on top of another to create a pleated pattern. As you run out of space, carefully clamp the ends so the whole thing closes up properly.
You’ve just made your first dumpling.
When Megan and Josh Lemon first tried their hand at making dumplings years ago, they said they didn’t look quite right.
“Our first dumplings were really ugly,” Megan laughs.
Now, years later, the two have folded thousands of dumplings, (“Probably over 10,000,” Megan estimates.) as part of their relationship and their business, the Southern Wok, a Winston-Salem-based dim sum pop-up that focuses on bringing Chinese dumplings to the Triad, with a Southern twist.
These days, Megan in particular is adept with folding all different types of dumplings — she’s got the parcel fold, the soup-dumpling fold, the gold-ingot fold down pat. Now they call her “the dumpling master.”
“It’s my tiny hands,” she says.
But the story and the connection to dim sum stems from Josh’s family lineage. His grandmother, Irene, was born in Hong Kong and married Josh’s grandfather, Dan, or “Pops,” after they met during his time in the Marines. Although Irene passed away a
few years ago from pneumonia, Josh looks back fondly at his relationship with his grandmother, who he says was the quintessential Asian caretaker, meaning she showed her love through food
“If you were eating at her house, you didn’t actually want to finish your food or she’s going to put more on your plate,” Josh recalls. “If you’re full, just leave a few bites on there.”
After his grandmother immigrated to the US, Josh says she had a hard time staying connected to her heritage. She was brought to the “middle of nowhere, Virginia,” as Josh describes it, and helped open and operate a country store with Dan. Then, when his father was young, Josh says he didn’t feel a strong desire to connect with his Chinese background. He was a half-Asian kid growing up in rural Virginia who just wanted to fit in.
“I think my grandma struggled with my uncle and my dad having more Western ideas,” Josh says.
That meant that Josh was introduced to Chinese-American cuisine first before he really experienced the kind of Chinese food his grandmother grew up eating. The name of their business comes from his love of classic Chinese takeout.
When Josh was 11, he visited Hong Kong with his grandmother, who took him through the streets, stopping at various food vendors, introducing him to soup dumplings and bao and sweet custard buns. That experience changed his life.
“I realized that it was something that I needed to explore myself because my grandma and my dad really didn’t,” he says.
When Josh and Megan met in 2017, Josh wooed her by making her dumplings any
Josh and Megan Lemon started The Southern Wok to bring their mutual love of dumplings to the masses.chance he got. When they got engaged a few years later, Josh proposed to Megan over a homemade dim sum meal, complete with handmade dumplings and tea; she said yes.
“Food became our love language,” Megan says. “It’s turned into how we communicate; it’s how we show love now.”
The business got its start in 2019, around the time that Josh was taking the bar exam after law school and Megan was finishing her arts and entrepreneurship degree from Wake Forest University.
The two would go on taco and beer dates and over dinners, would often daydream about opening their own food business one day. Then the pandemic hit and to fill the time, they made their favorite food — dumplings.
“There wasn’t anywhere around here that we could get it so we made it ourselves,” Megan says.
Having experienced the more robust dim sum and Chinese cuisine scene in Virginia, the two knew that they wanted to bring something like that to the Triad, and in July 2022, the two started the Southern Wok.
As a pop-up business, the menu is streamlined with four different kinds of dumplings: veggie, chicken and cabbage, pulled pork and shrimp shumai. Other items like pimento crab rangoons and spring rolls round out the dim sum offerings. Pretty much everything is made from scratch, from the dumpling dough to the eight different kinds of sauces offered.
The menu exemplifies a balance between Chinese cooking and Southern flavors, shown through items like the pulled-pork dumplings.
“It’s me personified as food,” says Josh, who grew up smoking pork. “It’s my history and my family’s history in Virginia and what it means to be Asian American in the South.”
Other items, like the country fried rice, complete with lima beans, corn and bell peppers, and the smoked greens, which blend smoked collards and Chinese mustard greens, marry the two backgrounds.
In addition to being a physical manifestation of Josh’s identity, the blended menu allows for customers who aren’t familiar with dim sum to find ways into the cuisine.
“It was about, ‘How can we take the food we love and dim sum and get people interested in it and get them educated in it?’” Josh explains.
But the cooking styles, like the dumpling folds, are all authentically Chinese, Megan says. They use what’s called the wok hei, or a method of cooking over an open flame that imparts a smoky flavor to the dishes. Plus they incorporate key Chinese ingredients like shaoxing wine, white pepper, black vinegar and Chinese hot mustard into the food.
As part of their business, the two also offer classes that allow for those interested to experience the communal aspect of folding dumplings. In the future, they would love to own a bed and breakfast where they host dim sum on the weekends. But for now, the two are raising funds to get their food truck, which is in Virginia, fixed up and transported to the Triad so they can share their love of dim sum with more people.
Megan points out the fact that the word dim sum translated from Chinese into English means “to touch the heart.”
“That’s what we’re trying to do with this food,” Josh says.
“It’s a labor of love,” Megan says.
Learn more about The Southern Wok at thesouthernwok.com or follow them on Instagram at @thesouthernwok.
On Oct. 18, the Southern Wok will host a takeover at Neighbors in Greensboro starting at 7 p.m. Contribute to the food truck fund at indiegogo.com/projects/the-southern-wokfood-truck.
Diego Figueiredo has some practical advice for aspiring jazz guitarists.
First thing in the morning, he says, spend two hours practicing all major chords and learning all of their inversions, which are variations on that chord’s bass note, as well as learning every spot on the instrument where those chords can be played. Then spend another two hours drilling every minor chord with their inversions— experimenting with how they each sound when you add a flat ninth, a sharp 11th, a 7. After a short lunch, the aspiring jazz guitarist should spend another two hours working on the harmonic minor scale — trying it in every key, every mode, every position on the guitar all the way down the neck.
“It’s no secret”, he says with a chuckle. “Everyone asks me, ‘How do I improvise?’ You just study the scales and the chords eight hours a day for 10 years.”
Now, Figueiredo is able to think about his music vertically, he explains in a presentation given on the Sunday afternoon as part of 11th annual Southern Guitar Festival, held over the weekend at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
Figueiredo is an award-winning Brazilian guitarist who fuses his jazz, bossa nova, and classical music influences into his unique style. He has performed at hundreds of locations all around the world from China to Portugal and even on a cruise to Antarctica. He’s released 28 CDs, and he has a book on improvisation called New Patterns
The festival, directed by respected guitarist Marina Alexandra, was originally held in Columbia, South Carolina. It has been held in Winston-Salem since 2021. Featuring a competition, concerts, workshops and the opportunity to meet and talk with extremely talented guitar builders, the event attracts guitarists locally and from across the country — the majority of which were classical players.
The classical guitar world is a relatively small community. There are only a handful of reputable programs to study it in the US. Many of the professionals and luthiers have known each other for years. Most serious players or professionals spend countless hours practicing and performing all by themselves. The Southern Guitar Festival and other events like it give the community opportunities to meet up, share information, showcase talent, and foster artistic growth for all players.
For the uninitiated, classical guitar is both a style of playing and a type of guitar. The guitars themselves are strung with strings of soft nylon, giving them a darker sound than steel stringed guitars. They are almost always fully acoustic, meaning they cannot be plugged into anything — although Figueiredo plays a classical guitar that can be plugged directly into an amp. While some classical guitars are mass produced, most serious players will have one that was handmade by a luthier for a high price. The most seasoned players will know how each type of wood subtly affects the sound of the guitar.
Classical guitar luthier Waddy Thomson gives a presentation explaining some aspects of how he builds his instruments, using a half-built cross section of a guitar for demonstration. Building just one takes him over a month, with hundreds of hours of
work going into each guitar.
The way he explains it is just like a very complicated woodworking project. He has to carve thin spears of wood tapered on both ends to create the 7-fan bracing, he has to use heat to bend rectangular strips of wood to make the sides of the guitar, he has to carve out a guitar neck with indents for frets. Even making the bridge of the guitar is a major project, he says.
The final product is pristine, as seen by the showcase he has of his work in the lobby.
One might think that the type of music people play on the classical guitar is all Bach, Mozart and other long-dead, Eastern European symphony composers. But the guitar has a rich history in Spain and France, as well as Brazil and other Latin American countries.
On Saturday night in the Watson Hall of UNCSA, Diego Figueiredo showcases the breadth of variety afforded by the instrument. After wiping his brow and smiling after performing his arrangement of “All the Things You Are,” the jazz hit originally written by Jerome Kern, he engages his audience in a kind of game.
“Okay,” he says, “Something I like to do in these concerts is improvise a whole piece on the spot. So you know I’m not lying, I’m going to ask you all what key I should play in, and in what style. Samba, choro, tango, bossa nova, bolero, anything.”
Audience members shout out letters and genres. Figueiredo is tasked with playing a samba in G-sharp minor, transitioning it into a tango in A major.
“I will try my best,” he says.
He starts to play a G-sharp minor chord with a samba rhythm, his eyes looking to the ceiling searching for inspiration. Ten, 15 seconds go by with him repeating just that chord, and a member of the audience laughs.
Suddenly, he adds an exquisite seductive samba melody on top of the tonic chord. Never to get bogged down in one thing, the melody gets constantly altered and extrapolated, the style subtly shifting.
He blazes through multi octave scales with a sound like a lawnmower engine revving up. And he performs all of it with an unmatched looseness. He sways from side to side, as he looks up at the crowd with a raised brow when he hits something he knows is impressive. He even throws in a quote of what sounded like Beethoven’s “Für Elise.”
His performance is fiery, always surprising and engaging.
When he plays his last note, he cuts the sound with his whole body and explodes to his feet, letting out a loud triumphant laugh through his wide grin.
Diego Figueiredo performs at the Southern Guitar Festival held at UNCSA over the weekend. PHOTO BY BECKETT CLAREY
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1. “Amor vincit ___”
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11. #1 bud
14. Friendly New Orleans address
15. “90210” actress Spelling
16. Shapiro on NPR
17. Annoying consumer levy
19. “What’s in the ___?!”
20. Jeopardized
21. Exert some effort
23. Beverage suffixes
24. With authority derived from one’s position, in Latin
30. Baltimore player
31. Word in a fall forecast, maybe
32. Word in a fall forecast, maybe
35. La Mediterranee, e.g.
36. “Mater” intro
37. They’re quintessential
41. ___-lock brakes
42. ___ Gatos, CA
43. Old U.S. gas station still seen in Canada
44. “Things are not always what they ___”
45. Anaphylaxis treatment
48. 114-year-old gas station logo
50. “To be,” to Bizet
2. Baskervilles beast
3. Attack from a distance, in Overwatch
4. Zaps, on “Jackass”
5. Epps of “House, M.D.”
6. More tree-scented
7. Played the restaurant critic
8. Hotel suite extra
9. Noteworthy time period
10. Like ESP, sense-wise
11. Toys that may wet themselves
12. “To” opposite
13. Awkward situation
18. 161, to Claudius
22. “Previously on” segments
25. “Here! Take a chair”
26. “It’s... Little ___ Horne!”
27. “Trillion” prefix
28. ___ Void (“Never
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57. Name on 1950s campaign buttons
59. Payment down to the penny (or what the theme entries exhibit?)
63. Play on linear TV
64. “Sonic & Knuckles” publisher
65. Follower of multi- (or if it’s a gadget criticized by Alton Brown, uni-)
66. “Unforgettable” singer ___ ‘King’ Cole
67. High-altitude seat feature
68. Like clothes after a workout
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