A little Russia in North Carolina

Rico says his mother, who's trying to get the locals in her home town to spruce up the place so it doesn't dry up and blow away, says she's gonna propose they try a little Potemkin village behavior. More power to her. (And ain't it nice to have a mother who's so smart and so tough?) Rico says he thinks the abandoned tobacco warehouses in town could be converted to artists' live-in space, but we'll see...