July 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Brian Ray’s small apartment near Guilford College is nearly empty. There’s a chair and two laptop computers near his size 11 running shoes, his bookcase and his clean laundry stacked on a kitchen shelf. But not much el...
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July 8, 2009
GREENSBORO – Two friends will hold a benefit Thursday night to raise money for the people who lost everything in the June 3 rainstorm that flooded Wafco Mills.Tahe Zalal and Kristi Benedict will hold “Come Help For High Water’’ fro...
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July 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — I ate lunch with PD on Monday at Stamey’s. They didn’t know me. But they sure knew him. PD had spent nearly three decades behind the cash register, in his green apron, working as the shift manager and ringing up barbecue pla...
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July 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — They’re teenagers, kids really.They stood last week at the downtown corner of Spring and Washington, holding signs with bumper-sticker messages they wrote themselves.Cars honked, parents passed out fliers, and students lined both...
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July 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — You’ll find it in the Pink Room, written in chalk, on a blackboard beside a borrowed banjo. It’s an outrageous edict, a recipe for fun crafted by a twentysomething crazy about “steam punk.’’All day eve...
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June 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — Down West Lewis, a downtown street that feels more alley than avenue, Paul Talley has turned an empty warehouse into Greensboro’s largest nightclub. It’s big — 10,000 square feet, with room for 950 people. Two bi...
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June 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Our city shifts a little when you cross the tracks and go over the hump along South Elm. At first, you might not notice. But slow down, watch and listen. You’ll see. There’s Butch, Downtown Jack, Sharpshooter Sarah and Bossy...
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South Elm stopped at the railroad tracks. Mebane Road took you west; Fayetteville Street (now Martin Luther King Drive) took you east. But around 1890, the city extended South Elm across the tracks for two blocks. That move refocused the commercial sense...
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June 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Erika Villarreal walked South Elm for three days, carrying a big red sack as a blister began to build on her right foot.She toted 100 hand-made fabric bundles smaller than a bag lunch. She made them herself and handed them out randomly...
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June 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — The portrait of John Lennon hangs in the basement of Stan Bullock’s house. It’s from his daughter, Amanda. She gave it to him last year for Father’s Day. She did it herself, in charcoal pencil, while lying on her livin...
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June 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — These days, Mark Kano plays his guitar on his back deck. He’ll sit there, with his two sons, Noah and Emery, picking through new tunes, asking them what they think. But sometimes, he’ll pull out something called “The P...
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June 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — The courtyard at Wafco Mills is empty. Electrical cords snake across inch-deep muck as fans drone from basement condos and taped yellow signs shout the word everyone associates with Mother Nature’s wrath: condemned. A huge Dumpste...
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June 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — Nine months ago, in a beautiful stone house called “The Castle,’’ Hobo Billy was beaten to death before his body was burned in a fire. No one has been arrested. People who knew and loved Hobo Billy still ache and get a...
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June 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Before Marty Goldstein became a respected educator, he became a respected cook. He had to. It started in college, when he was a student with little money. So, he learned to cook, a move that lead him into jobs at places as diverse at th...
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June 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — ChaQuanda Graham felt her heart drop. She saw all those people inside Greensboro’s Special Events Center last weekend, and she felt nervousness rise in her throat. “Don’t cry; don’t cry,’’ she told he...
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June 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — We know their faces, Kent Bates and Greg Kerr. They were two high-profile anchors at WFMY. Bates helped anchor news; Kerr steered sports. Together, almost every night, they told at least 267,000 local households about their local...
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June 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — They’re both the youngest sons of North Carolina farmers, the journalist and the crafty oil tycoon. The oilman is Walter Davis. Don’t confuse him with the hoops star once known as “Sweet D.’’ No, this Walte...
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June 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — There was a time when Marty Goldstein had blond curly hair, felt as hefty as a linebacker and wanted so badly to play first base for the New York Yankees. He’s from the Bronx. He lived above a Chinese restaurant, used cars and sew...
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May 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — Meet Milton, the new face of our tough economy. He’s 44 , a college graduate and a Navy veteran who works in a lab coat. Well, he used to. He got laid off in March. Now, he lives in a cheap motel room near the airport and searches...
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May 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Stare at Lisa Scheer’s portraits, the family pictures she collected, and you see a Greensboro you probably won’t recognize. It’s a Greensboro grounded in the past, along streets like Hubbard and Walnut. The Weavers wea...
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May 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Isaiah Enoch has to get around his small apartment in a wheelchair. But he doesn’t let that stop his busy mind. He collects boxes that once held cereal, detergent and diapers. He cuts them, glues them and decorates them for what h...
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For many of us, summer started with Memorial Day weekend. Not me. My summer started on Thursday, an hour after daybreak, near the spot many of us call The Corner. I was stumbling sleepy-eyed past Key’s Barber Shop, walking my dog along Walker Aven...
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May 24, 2009
It sits 30 minutes south of us off I-85, in a grassy bowl beside a rest stop where the trees, bushes and huge brick façade deaden the roar of interstate traffic. Stand there, surrounded by 36 crape myrtles, and the passing trucks and cars seem so f...
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May 22, 2009
Greensboro got a new radio station Friday afternoon. At 5 p.m., the station known as KISS-FM — the place for Erykah Badu and Marvin Gaye — flipped its format, went Top 40 and began playing 10,000 tunes in a row from artists like Britney Spears...
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GREENSBORO – Local radio personality Busta Brown has started his midnight basketball program for the eighth straight summer to keep kids and teenagers off the streets and away from trouble. He and police Sgt. Alexander Ricketts, Brown’s good f...
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