September 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — In this half-acre garden, surrounded by our city of concrete, you’ll find just about everything. Tomatoes and eggplant. Sweet potatoes and squash. Cantaloupes and okra. And some leafy thing called stevia that you can slip between...
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GREENSBORO — Lucinda Williams has told folks she loves playing the Carolina Theatre. It showed Friday night. She played for more than two hours and dipped deep into her songbook that spans 30 years of writing about love, sex, death and redemption in...
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September 24, 2009
The curves. The elegance. The grace. She’s a gem in front of the camera. You can see for yourself this weekend at the Carolina Theatre. She’ll be on the big screen, along with a gaggle of young actors and the man hired by Walt Disney to make g...
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September 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — The benches behind Bilbro Street were meant to spark conversation, not confrontation. But now they’re doing just that. Later today, Warnersville residents are expected to ask the City Council to remove those five benches bolted in...
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September 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — He’s Stevo, the kid with the big shoe. He can bowl, golf, swim, play pingpong, throw a change-up, deliver a sweet serve and hit a jumper from beyond the 3-point line drawn in fuchsia-colored chalk on his driveway. He loves nothing...
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September 10, 2009
This week, we’ll remember through a T-shirt, a birthmark and a pair of shoes. Walk into The Claddagh, High Point’s only Irish pub, and you’ll see it just beyond the wooden beam: the makeshift shrine of helmets, badges, photos and T-shirt...
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September 6, 2009
There’s some kind of commotion along West Lee. Harry Im, in his sunglasses, has turned a corner beside Highland Avenue into his own personal gym. At lunch, he shadowboxes, stretching, kicking and punching the air. Meanwhile, Heather Watson loo...
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September 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — Mary Hopkins promised them a ceremony. And she kept her word. She spent $400 of her own money, booked the auditorium at the Greensboro Historical Museum and lassoed a school board member, even the mayor, to help herald the accomplishmen...
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September 1, 2009
Allan Hild stood on UNCG’s new home court last week and felt a tinge of envy. He played for UNCG two decades ago. Back then, he was No. 45, a 6-foot-5 forward. His hoop home? Park Gym, a spot that no longer exists along Spring Garden. It wasn&rsquo......
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August 30, 2009
They’re elusive as Bigfoot, these big, slimy salamanders. You can lift hundreds of rocks, using an old lumberjack tool, and watch divers in wet suits plunge into a mountain creek, sweep their hands across the bottom and come up with nothing. You do...
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August 27, 2009
John Coltrane stands tall in High Point. Charlie Poole hovers like mist over the Smith River in Eden. And Etta Baker hangs in Greensboro on Steve Terrill’s wall right near his front door. Coltrane is jazz. Poole is country. Baker is Piedmont blues.
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August 25, 2009
The water balloon fights have ended at Windsor Center. At least for now. Jalen Hester and a few dozen other summer campers have gone back to school. They didn’t want to. They’ll tell you that. If they could, they’d stay at summer camp fo...
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August 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — “Hi, I’m the pedal boat girl.’’ That’s Stacie Kelly. She tells that to almost everybody. She tends the pedal boats at Country Park. It’s the only spot in our city where you can rent these contraptions...
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August 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — This week, you can expect Mary Beisner to find a few. She’ll be in her backyard, 50 steps from her swimming pool. She’ll probably be sitting near her sweetgum tree beside No. 10, watching the crowd of the Wyndham Championshi...
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August 13, 2009
SEAGROVE — On Saturday, in this stretch of Randolph County where the corn grows tall, 13 potters will start selling 200 mugs, tumblers and tea cups and donate everything they make to a man some call America’s Mother Teresa. And it’s not...
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In this era of rising costs and falling revenue, area hospitals want to go green. During the past year, officials at Piedmont Triad hospitals have put their institutions under a microscope to figure out ways to become more energy efficient and less wastef...
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August 11, 2009
You’ll always find them in Section 101. There’s Alexis Lavine and her husband, Phil. They’ve come to celebrate our city’s summertime ritual and watch the Greensboro Grasshoppers play in our sanctuary to baseball, NewBridge Bank Par...
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August 9, 2009
As our laid-back days wane, I’ll remember the boy with the bloody stump. “Mr. Whoa! Mr. Whoa! Pull my TOOF!’’ At first, I needed a translator. But I looked at Tommy’s bloody napkin within inches of my lunch, and I figured rig...
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August 6, 2009
Welcome to the revolution. North Carolina is the craft beer state of the South. Right now, as you read this, there are 42 breweries operating across the state with at least a half-dozen expecting to open by year’s end. In the big cities of Tobacco R...
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August 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — Jim Dollar keeps them piled in his closet, just a mass of red, green, orange and blue. And purple, too. Every day, he’ll pull out a pair. He uses black for Sunday. He is a minister and all. But he chooses any other color — e...
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August 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — Check out the corkboard in the small office of Sebrina Cooke-Davis and you’ll see a kaleidoscope of thumb-tacked photos of young girls. One is wearing a high school graduation gown. Others are laughing, smiling, mugging for the c...
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July 30, 2009
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. — A quote from Muhammad Ali found taped near a door at the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro. GREENSBORO — Local boxing promoter Walte...
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July 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — You could drive right by and not even notice the 17 empty acres off Meadowview near Interstate 85. But Dave Compton does. The first time he stopped, he couldn’t go down the driveway. It was too painful, too sad. The next time, he...
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July 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — You gotta figure Chris Blackburn loves his older sister. She used to give him loads of grief. She’d poke him, call him names and get him on edge when she babysat him, washed his hair and said, “Look! Something’s wrong...
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July 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Stand in the long hallway — even if a woman gets on the phone and yells, “I have no money to get downtown!’’ — and you can hear it. It’s the tinny sound of an upright piano, slightly off-key. Someone...
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