September 4, 2007
Michael Spainhour paints on plywood, finds his frames at yard sales and uses house paint to make his scenes and images jump. And people notice. First, you're caught by the colors — the purples, reds, yellows and midnight blues. Look closer, and you...
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September 1, 2007
GREENSBORO — Jacob Moncla can barely talk about it. When he does, he pauses often. He fumbles for words. Later, he admits he can't focus, can't think, because this past week has been one big blur. And no wonder. Bhilial Hykein Lasco — his bes...
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August 28, 2007
It's the simple memorial that Randy Yardley remembers. Two weeks ago, while helping to rebuild a smidgen of New Orleans, he crossed the bridge into the Lower Ninth Ward. And there, at the bottom of the bridge, in the median, is a semi-circle of window...
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August 25, 2007
OAK RIDGE — Kyle Vessa has visited the three lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo a few times this summer. He doesn't notice the gold-lettered plaque with his name on it beside the exhibit. He just stands and stares at the three cubs, particularly th...
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August 23, 2007
GREENSBORO — The graduation essays from the eighth-graders at B'Nai Shalom are serious, sentimental, even funny. One young writer quotes Charlie Brown. Another mentions wading through a knee-deep carpet of cold water in a pitch-black cave. And yet...
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August 18, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM — On the 22nd floor, in a downtown building once occupied by Wachovia, Rob Van Camp keeps the old videotapes in a corner. There are at least 50, stuck in a box that weighs at least 35 pounds. He keeps them because they're necessary. Th...
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August 16, 2007
When it comes to furniture — and trying to deliver a knockout punch to High Point as furniture’s old-school heavyweight — Las Vegas takes it personally. Just ask Ivan Cutler, marketing specialist, college-educated journalist, furniture...
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When it comes to furniture — and trying to deliver a knockout punch to High Point as furniture’s old-school heavyweight — Las Vegas takes it personally. Just ask Ivan Cutler, marketing specialist, college-educated journalist, furniture...
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August 11, 2007
HIGH POINT — You see it in Katherine Moore's scribblings, the cursive, black ink on napkins, envelopes, and purple and red Post-it notes. It's the choice phrase, the snippet of conversation. She writes it down and stores it away before the next time...
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HIGH POINT — You see it in Katherine Moore's scribblings, the cursive, black ink on napkins, envelopes, and purple and red Post-it notes. It's the choice phrase, the snippet of conversation. She writes it down and stores it away before the next time...
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August 9, 2007
HIGH POINT — During a blast-oven afternoon, when a large fan kept his barbershop cool, Robert Hayes flashed his gold-tooth grin and recalled the East Washington Drive he saw in his mind. Back then, black businesses thrived along every inch of the st...
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August 4, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM — And so they came.
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