October 4, 2008
Wade through a Southern jungle, and you'll find the five dilapidated houses within a few dozen steps of one another. There's a collapsed roof, a collapsed floor, broken furniture, broken boards, empty liquor bottles, sun-bleached beer cans and an old Roll...
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October 2, 2008
HIGH POINT — In a womblike room at Theatre Art Galleries, you think you’re looking at a funky circus. Reds, yellows, greens and blues jump from the canvas. Horses, bulls, rabbits and pigs spring from the space, too. But look closer, and you’ll see t...
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September 30, 2008
GREENSBORO - Britteny Williams keeps her poems in a yellow notebook. Ben Jensen keeps his drums in a corner of his midnight jam room, beneath a poster of jazz singer Billie Holiday. They don't know each other. But they blossom from the same branch. Ben's...
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September 27, 2008
CLIMAX — See Ginnie Tate, “The Goat Lady,” and you can tell something’s wrong. She still gets around pretty well. She climbs into her golf cart, with her two rat terriers, Ben and Jerry, and checks out her cheese-making operation beside the twisti...
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September 25, 2008
Prostate cancer can be a scary, sensitive thing. Just ask Bob Page. He’s beaten it. At least, he believes so. He caught it early enough. Still, he remembers the first 24 hours last fall after he found out he had the most common type of cancer that attac...
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September 23, 2008
Climb a tree. Build a fort out of sheets, sticks and a few big boards. Turn crab apples into sidewalk chalk. Or fill your pockets full of rocks, shells, feathers, acorns, even seaweed. Don't put them through the wash. It'll ruin everything. Put them in a...
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September 20, 2008
GREENSBORO - Head into Greensboro, and you'll see the billboard beside U.S. 421, right before the trio of fast-food restaurants and the spiderweb of overpass concrete. Go fast or get distracted, and you'll miss it. But slow down and look right, and you'll...
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September 18, 2008
GREENSBORO - Angela Martin wears a bone in her hair. Now, it's a rawhide bone - $3.99 from PetSmart, painted hot pink and hot-glued with pink sequins. But as you read this, she's on her way to Los Angeles to hobnob with celebrities and hang out at the Emm...
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September 13, 2008
GREENSBORO - Their dance with language started, of all places, in a dimly lit bar. A few years back, Amaris Howard stood inside L's Sports Bar on Randleman Road and saw a man as big as a door walk onstage in jeans, a baggy T-shirt and a fitted hat pulled...
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September 12, 2008
GREENSBORO - Six Guilford County middle school students were honored Thursday night for their work in promoting peace, diffusing violence and becoming role models at their school.Win-Win Resolutions, a nonprofit that helps area students fight prejudice an...
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September 11, 2008
GREENSBORO — At first glance, you think it’s just a room. It sits across the railroad tracks on South Elm and occupies 2,400 square feet of exposed steel beams and bricks painted white. It’s our city’s newest meeting space, and you can bet it’ll...
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September 9, 2008
We’ll know him as Mo. He wants it that way. He became Guilford County’s new superintendent Monday. He’ll oversee the education of 72,000 students, be the boss for 10,000 employees and sit in the hottest hot seat in our county — a position fraught...
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September 6, 2008
Katie Quinn loves watching her video. She’ll curl her legs underneath her, sit in a big, cushy chair and say every few seconds: “This is my favorite part! This right here! Right here!’’ She’s only seen it three times. She just got it last week.
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September 4, 2008
GREENSBORO — Maybe you’ve seen her. She’s 15 feet tall, as willowy as a spiral of smoke, with steel rebar as her skeleton and steel metal trimmings for her skin, hair and legs. And appropriately enough, she now stands at the spot known to some of us...
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GREENSBORO - Advertising executive Allen Broach unveiled on Thursday a new event space in downtown Greensboro that feels more like New York than North Carolina.He calls it Studio B, a two-level spot off South Elm with polished rails, bistro tables and 17......
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September 2, 2008
After the long Labor Day weekend, the unofficial door-slam of summer, some thoughts on food and nourishment. ... Sweet potato muffins Like many, I worried about the future of the historic Old Mill of Guilford. It’s easy to understand why. Heidi and Char...
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August 30, 2008
GREENSBORO — John Bury, they’ll remember you next weekend. At least 3,000 people will come from all over the world and descend on the downtown Marriott to continue what you started 14 years ago . The convention floor was your place. Like a tattooed k...
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August 28, 2008
GREENSBORO — Michael Keith Cooper died alone last week beside one of our busiest roads, surrounded by a bank, a convenience store and two churches.He was homeless.Michael lost his battle with an ailing heart and the bottle. Initial autopsy results show...
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August 26, 2008
GREENSBORO - Today, we get busy. We - the parents of 72,000 students in Guilford County public schools - will lose our laid-back summer. We'll crowbar kids out of bed and move them toward the door for another year at 120 schools countywide. Our schedules...
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August 23, 2008
When I see birches bend to left and right … I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. — Robert Frost, poet ASHEBORO — Thank you, Liz Mann. I was doing the typical journalism thing — watching and writing — when Liz, a 7-year-old from Pineh...
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August 21, 2008
The rising sun brushed clouds the color of bubblegum Wednesday morning by the time Jamie Cosson headed toward the shed beside Turtle Lake. He led 15 campers, all sleepy from their third night in the woods. Cosson knows that early-morning look. He’s run...
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August 19, 2008
We'll talk nature and kids this week. You'll meet a local camp director from Australia, and you'll see a new plan for Randolph County's Purgatory Mountain. But today, in this first of three installments, you'll hear how a former newspaper columnist who lo...
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GREENSBORO - BB's is done.BB's Compact Discs will shut its doors Aug. 31 and end a 19-year tradition of selling new music and becoming a must-stop for musicians and many music fans near Guilford College."It's hard to put into words,'' Duncan Dunn , BB's...
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August 16, 2008
ASHEBORO - Michael Weese will leave today for N.C. State. He'll take his laptop, his Emergency Medical Services flag, even his foot-tall doll of Superman. Then he'll begin his long-awaited quest, something he's thought about since he fished with a Mickey...
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August 14, 2008
GREENSBORO -- I hate that sign. I see it in the window, and I can’t help but think of all the other independent record stores, all those cool spots of conversation that helped anchor our city, give it personality and draw every discerning music hound I...
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