February 6, 2012
A Florida native who moved to Greensboro in 1998, Lolita Malave worked as both a middle school English teacher and stay-at-home mother before seeking a career as a Realtor.
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December 30, 2010
The films in my top 10 list pretty much fell into place this year with very little debate and consideration.
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December 16, 2010
GREENSBORO — As some Greensboro music venues closed their doors in the last few years, it left musicians with fewer opportunities to perform live shows.
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October 21, 2010
After working on three movies and a TV series with Tyler Perry, the greatest lesson Tasha Smith learned from the self-made entertainment mogul is to “put your money where your dreams are.”
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July 22, 2010
New York has “Saturday Night Live” and the Upright Citizens Brigade.Los Angeles has the Groundlings.Chicago has The Second City.And Greensboro has Mon Frère, a sketch comedy troupe founded last year by five friends.
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April 15, 2010
Few could blame Michael Stephenson for spending his adolescence and young adult years trying to forget the summer job he had as a kid. The job involved playing the lead role in "Troll 2," one of the worst movies of all time.
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With 51 feature films from 33 countries, it can be difficult to decide which movies to see at this year's RiverRun International Film Festival. So to help with your decision-making, we've chosen nine films that caught our eye this year. For additional fil...
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In late spring 1999, a young filmmaker named David Gordon Green set out with a group of friends to make a largely self-financed motion picture in Winston-Salem. The film was "George Washington," a haunting, lyrical story about an interracial gro...
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March 25, 2010
At exactly midnight on March 17, college students Jathan Pugh and Guy Gunn were "infected" with a virus that turned them into brain-hungry zombies. The following morning, they spread the infection to 17 students on UNCG's campus. Forty-eight hou...
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March 18, 2010
Writer Holly Goddard Jones believes it's difficult finding readers who are interested in fiction these days. The Internet, video games, movies and TV occupy people's lives, leaving few who read books in their spare time. But of those few, even fewer are i...
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The members of Israel Darling have seen two major changes since they appeared on the cover of Go Triad in January for a story about the challenges facing the Greensboro music scene. Since the piece published, local musicians have reached out to the band......
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March 4, 2010
By day, Aubrey Lockard is a college junior majoring in international and global human rights at UNCG. By night, she transforms into Molly Flogger, a tattooed, fast-skating and hard-hitting enthusiast of the contact sport on wheels known as roller derby......
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February 11, 2010
Seth Olinsky, Akron/Family singer and guitarist, believes the digital music revolution has not only changed how young people purchase and listen to music, but also what they listen to.
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Most people know Bruce Piephoff as a singer-songwriter. But for Piephoff, who has released 18 albums, the music is only an extension of his true identity as a poet. "I heard somebody say to Townes Van Zandt, 'You're a poet,' " Piephoff says. &qu...
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February 4, 2010
As a theater major, Kati Frazier could not have picked a worse time to graduate from UNCG. The year was 2008, the nation's economy was tanking and unemployment was at an all time high. "I was just looking for a full time job with office work or somet...
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January 28, 2010
Todd Fisher currently has no paintings hanging on his office walls. Instead, he taped up signs that read: "Put Your Art Here!"
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When "Children of the Hunt" has its theatrical premiere on the big screen, Patty McIrvin hopes one person will be there in spirit: her son, local film producer Adam Ross. "That's something to celebrate," McIrvin said. "I hope he's...
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January 21, 2010
In 1981, filmmaker Matthew Barr wrote the script for the Wes Craven thriller "Deadly Blessing," which featured Ernest Borgnine as the leader of a murderous Amish gang. Now, almost 30 years later, Barr is taking on the real-life horror of world h...
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Greensboro octet Israel Darling has given a lot in the pursuit of playing original live music. They've rehearsed four hours a day, five to six days a week; spent $50 on gas to travel to non-paying gigs in Asheville and Boone; and lost a side window on the...
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December 31, 2009
For the first time since I've been reviewing movies, the spring and summer movie seasons were just as strong -- if not stronger -- than the fall and winter which are supposedly when Hollywood finds most of its yearly awards contenders.
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December 3, 2009
Winston-Salem actor Michael Huie is getting Scrooged again. The local thespian will play Ebenezer Scrooge in the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival's annual production of "A Christmas Carol," which opens Friday.
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It's a challenging Monday afternoon for a group of students at Bluford Elementary. For the 25 fourth- and fifth-graders enrolled in the African dance and drumming workshop sponsored by N.C. A&T, this is the first time they will wear their multi-colore...
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November 26, 2009
The Radio City Rockettes are more than just their trademark kick line, especially since lead choreographer Linda Haberman revamped their annual Christmas show in 2007.
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November 12, 2009
As the operating manager of Acme Comics, Jermaine Exum may very well have one of the coolest jobs in Greensboro.
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Brian Michael Bendis carries a reputation for being very approachable, which was certainly the case with this conversation.
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