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• New music venue coming to downtown Greensboro

  07-12-2016 23:18 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Dustin Keene, the entrepreneur who operates Common Grounds coffee shop, is opening a new music venue in the hip south-end area of downtown Greensboro under development by Andy Zimmerman.
  Keen said he hopes to open the music venue, likely to be named the Lewis Street Music Foundry, in April on the back side of Boxcar Bar & Arcade. The building where the defunct Lotus Lounge nightclub was located is currently being renovated to house the barcade.
  Keen said he has a deposit down for the space i
  
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• Real Property a " Seller Knew About - Fraud' At Time of Sale

  07-12-2016 22:39
  
  Dreamstreet Investments Inc. v. MidCountry Bank No. 15-2104, Nov. 30, 2016; USDC at Greensboro, N.C. 4th Cir.
  
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• Criminal Practice a " N.C. Sex Offender Restrictions Struck

  07-12-2016 18:12
  
  John Doe #1 v. Cooper No. 16-6026, Nov. 30, 2016; USDC at Greensboro, N.C. 4th Cir.
  
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• ‘There’s only one chief’

  07-12-2016 09:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Greensboro police Chief Wayne Scott stood stock still in the vestibule of Centenary United Methodist Church as his command staff milled around him, all in dress blues, waiting for their moment.
  When it came, they fell easily into formation, with Deputy Chiefs Brian James and James Hinson taking point. They led the column into the nave, solemnly marching the aisle and turning crisply at the display before the altar, which included tall candles, a large spray of autumn flowers, an American flag fo
  
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• Victoria Victoria warms hearts at the Garage

  07-12-2016 09:29 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Victoria Victoria — a five-piece outfit fronted by singer-songwriter Tori Elliott — took the Garage’s stage with no ado, Elliott lilting into her numbers without introduction. She and the band embarked on their slow burn of a set, Elliott serenading sweet somethings.
  “I live in two cities/ I live on two streets/ And most of my rests are taken in my car,” Elliott sang, vamping on her keyboard.
  A touch of chill had swept into Winston-Salem on Dec. 1 in perfect time fo
  
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• Klan terrorizes Roxboro, side-stepping antifascist protesters

  07-12-2016 09:29 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  A much vaunted Ku Klux Klan “victory parade” to celebrate the election of Donald Trump manifested as a hasty drive-thru in Roxboro as antifascists made a show of force in the group’s hometown and anti-Klan rallies took place in cities across North Carolina.
  Karla McIntyre, an educator in Person County, became frantic when a former student texted to let her know that the Ku Klux Klan was driving through Roxboro, the county seat due north of Durham, around 3 p.m. on Dec. 3.
  The s
  
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• Barstool: Let’s talk about Hush speakeasy

  07-12-2016 09:20 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  “People love places they can’t get into,” a friend told me before we went to Hush, the mysterious, Prohibition era-themed speakeasy in the new Morehead Foundry multiplex on Spring Garden Street near downtown Greensboro. That seemed to be the case on the night of Dec. 3, which drew a large crowd by 10 p.m. as the place devolved into a typical noisy bar.
  There is no signage inside or outside the building, and the Twitter page, @hushgso, doesn’t indicate where Hush is locate
  
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• Violence against police officers cuts into recruitment efforts

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Some police training programs are seeing the number of applicants drop as concerns mount about the danger of policing and public criticism of the profession.
  Addressing the seven cadets in Forsyth Tech’s Basic Law Enforcement Training fall 2016 class, State Highway Patrol Sgt. Joshua Church gave voice to a sense of siege felt by members of the law enforcement community.
  Church said that over his 16 years of experience in law enforcement he’s watched “public support and trust fo
  
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• Unsolicited Endorsement: Treat yo self

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  It’s the season of giving, and most of us are racking our brains and running around to find perfect gifts for the people in our lives who mean something to us.
  As much as I gripe about the commercialization of Christmas, I do recognize the symbolism of the gesture — it feels great to get a nice gift, and nothing beats a nice pair of socks.
  But let’s get real. Nobody is going to get you what you really want: that designer overcoat you’ve had your eye on, those shoes you ke
  
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• Uncuffed: the Greensboro Police Department

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  I spent a significant amount of time with members of the Greensboro Police Department over the last few weeks… none of it in handcuffs.
  The reporting informed this week’s cover story, beginning on page 12. I am grateful for the access afforded me on this piece, which I realize is unusual.
  “A lot of chiefs would never, ever let a journalist talk to them like this,” Chief Wayne Scott told me.
  It started because I sensed a change in the department, which for so many years h
  
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• Trump’s America: The return of Ben Carson

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  We’re getting some idea of what the Unites States will look like under a President Trump through media reports and the man’s own Twitter feed, which has become required reading for every journalist in the country looking for a quick few thousand pageviews.
  There’s much to discuss, hence this semi-regular space in the paper. This week we’ll focus on a single cabinet appointment: Dr. Ben Carson, the literal brain surgeon and Trump’s onetime competitor for the Republic
  
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• Triad City Beat This Week: Dec. 7, 2016

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Chief Wayne Scott takes the Greensboro Police Department in the 21st Century with an unprecedented level of transparency, as Editor in Chief Brian Clarey reports in this week’s Triad City Beat cover story.
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  • Klan terrorizes Roxboro, sidestepping antifacscist protesters
  • Violence against police officers cuts into recruitment efforts
   
   
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  • Editorial: New districts again for NC
  • Editor’s Notebook: Uncuffed: the Greensboro Police De
  
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• The List: 5 non-traditional Christmas movies I love

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  1.  Gremlins (1984)
  It didn’t take long for Christmas to take over this year. For me it began on Nov. 1, with an immediate onslaught of Christmas advertisements and holiday music. While this brazen disregard for Thanksgiving perturbed me a bit, I was excited for the start of holiday-inspired movies to come on the scene. My personal favorite is the cult-classic Gremlins. While the moment that Kate describes the untimely death of her father while attempting to surprise the family as San
  
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• Take this job…

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  I was dragging a rowing machine out of the corner of the gym, trying to figure out how to angle it so no one would be distracted by my dry-heaving face during the workout, when a woman tapped me on the shoulder.
  “I just found something out about you,” she said, the kind of open-ended declaration that could go in any number of terrifying ways.
  “My doctor says it’s totally normal for a human body to look like that,” I said.
  “Wha– ew, no, I heard that you u
  
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• Sportsball: Elite Deacs take out Hokies

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  It was a beautiful moment.
  Wake Forest University senior midfielder Ian Harkes launched a long pass to midfielder Ema Twumasi, a freshman from Ghana via Connecticut, setting him up for greatness.
  The pass came 80 minutes into their Elite-8 matchup against the Virginia Tech Hokies on Dec. 3.
  The whole night at Wake’s Spry Soccer Stadium had been beautiful, but too closely resembled the one a year prior when the No. 1-seeded Demon Deacons men’s soccer team dropped their bid at the Coll
  
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• Revisiting the town of Tuna for Christmas

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Sunday afternoon marked the last of a four-day special production of the play A Tuna Christmas, brought back to the Community Theatre of Greensboro stage by board members and actors George Carson and Doug Heberle to honor the memory of the late Stephen Gee, Hall Parrish and David Bell, as well as the now defunct Broach Theatre Co.
  The packed house clapped wildly as the actors, Carson and Heberle, appeared on the stage to deliver the theater protocol for the evening, which included generating a l
  
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• #PeopleLoveThatStuff: Christmas balls

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Lots of affluent neighborhoods across the country have elaborate Christmas light displays. Greensboro has a simple, more elegant and yet equally majestic play on the idea: lighted Christmas balls.
  I honestly don’t know how they’re constructed, but they’re essentially skeletal spheres the size of kickballs that are wrapped in lights and suspended from old-growth oak trees. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of them spread throughout the gracious neighborhoods that flank the wes
  
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• New districts again for NC

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  After a federal court last week ordered North Carolina’s legislature to draw new, legal boundaries for nine state Senate districts and 10 House ones, newly designated state House Whip Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) was quick to respond to a comment on his Facebook page about his party’s plans for a response.
  He called the ruling “appalling,” and pledged to appeal the decision and “stand our ground to activist judges.” And to his credit, he engaged in some back-and
  
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• Citizen Green: From chain gangs to immigrant detention

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Anne Parsons, director of the museum studies program at UNCG, didn’t anticipate that Donald Trump would be elected president on Nov. 8, the day the States of Incarceration exhibit opened at the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro.
  “Under the Obama administration there was a real shift to de-carcerate prisons, both by increasing probation and shortening sentences, and by reviewing drug crimes,” she said during a tour of the exhibit on Monday. “In a lot of ways
  
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• By the airport, a local snack machine

  07-12-2016 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  As Jeff Soucy steered his older model Ford Focus towards his company’s future headquarters, he offered a sort of disclaimer, the kind you might hear from a politician who is rolling in campaign cash but who insists he hasn’t lost touch with his humble roots.
  It’s easy to understand why Soucy — the manager of product development who wears numerous hats at Creative Snacks — would emphasize the company’s beginning just seven years ago. The new building, desi
  
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