October 29, 2010
LaPortia McNeil and Jamal McKinley believe they long have been destined to be together.Their mothers, Janet McNeil (hers) and Lolita McNeill (his), met in high school homeroom. They became best friends, and later gave birth just 40 days apart. A photog...
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January 18, 2012
GREENSBORO — Shawn Waddell had little reason to patronize a public library.“I would go to Borders or Barnes & Noble to buy books. I had a computer at home, databases at school,” the N.C. A&T sophomore says. “I didn’t...
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December 13, 2011
GREENSBORO — "Presenting Arts, Preserving History" is the slogan for the Carolina Theatre.The historic downtown theater will do both with an April 19 fundraising gala featuring a performance by Grammy Award-winning singer and North Carolin...
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December 12, 2011
GREENSBORO — Lincoln Financial Foundation, Lorillard Tobacco Co. and VF Corp. have announced pledges totaling $1 million toward the Downtown Greenway project.Lincoln Financial pledged $500,000; Lorillard and VF each pledged $250,000.
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November 24, 2011
“Wake up darling and light the fire,The redbird’s singing on the telephone wire,All the family’s on the way,It’s time to get ready for the gathering day.”— From “The Gathering” by Laurelyn DossettGREENSBORO...
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November 3, 2011
GREENSBORO — If two men rewrote their vows to reflect the limited options for a gay couple, what would they say?On Monday, more than 40 theater groups around the country and beyond will tackle that topic and others in presenting “Standing on C...
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October 6, 2011
GREENSBORO — Shannon D. Stewart’s intricate pen and pencil drawing says much about his life.It depicts a boat, sporting “Team IRC” on its sail, riding rough waves.
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September 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — Marta Richardson vividly recalls her students’ facial expressions as they watched video of the Sphinx Symphony, an all-black and Latino orchestra.“You could see it just resonating in them,” Richardson says. “They...
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September 15, 2011
GREENSBORO — Get ready for 17 days of eye-opening fun.From Sept. 22 to Oct. 8, Greensboro will become the stage for the South’s new annual arts and culture festival — appropriately called 17 Days.Local arts groups and artists will presen...
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August 17, 2011
GREENSBORO — Short on money and on time to raise more, Greensboro Opera has canceled this season’s planned performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” and will lay off staff to cut
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August 8, 2011
GREENSBORO — Chicago displayed its decorated fiberglass cows on sidewalks.Lexington paraded its painted Pigs in the City. New Bern has its Bear Town Bears.Soon Greensboro will have “Pianos Paint the Town.”
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August 2, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM — Monday’s opening news conference of the National Black Theatre Festival offered a show in itself.Stars of stage and screen filled the downtown Marriott Hotel lobby with song, spoken word, laughter and applause to promote the st...
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July 6, 2011
GREENSBORO - Winter Light Gallery & Art Studios at 410 Blandwood Ave. will close when its lease expires Nov. 15, the gallery announced today.
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June 27, 2011
GREENSBORO -- The sign above the door advertises the building’s former occupant, a company called Envision.Sometime this summer, it will display the name of its new owner: Triad Stage.The nonprofit professional theater has bought the building at 172...
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June 14, 2011
Charleston, S.C., has its annual Spoleto Festival USA, one of the country’s top performing arts festivals. Now Greensboro will present 17 Days, an annual fall festival that organizers envision bringing regional and national attention to this city&rs...
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June 3, 2011
HIGH POINT — There will be no “Twelfth Night” this fall for the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival.Because of an expected cut of more than $200,000 in state support, the festival will not produce the Shakespeare comedy at High Point The...
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June 2, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM — Broadway fans don’t have to travel to New York to see the Tony Award-nominated comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest.”Hanesbrands Theatre is joining dozens of other performing arts centers and movie theaters that...
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May 21, 2011
Community Theatre of Greensboro has forged an agreement to purchase the building that houses the Broach Theatre. Allen Broach, who owns the property at 520 S. Elm St., has agreed to sell the building with its 160-seat theater, 10 office suites and Studio...
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May 3, 2011
UNCG alumna Beth Leavel has been nominated for a Tony Award for her leading role in the Broadway musical “Baby It’s You!”
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February 17, 2011
GREENSBORO — He played TV newsman Lou Grant, voiced character Carl Fredricksen in the 2009 film “Up” and now appears in the new CMT sitcom “Working Class.”At 81, veteran actor Edward “Ed” Asner has no plans to pla...
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December 9, 2010
GREENSBORO — The Carolina Chocolate Drops had high hopes for 2010. Earlier this year, the trio of young African Americans specializing in old-time string-band music released its second album, "Genuine Negro Jig."
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October 14, 2010
GREENSBORO — Buff Natural Nail Bar and Salon customers clearly like the way it pampers hands and feet.The nail salon has won annual Readers’ Choice awards since Susan Millikan and Melissa Tankersley opened it four years ago.Here, customers esc...
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September 29, 2010
GREENSBORO — A cross section of the city’s leaders has mounted a new effort to build a performing arts center downtown.
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September 23, 2010
GREENSBORO — As it marks its 10th anniversary season, Triad Stage has another reason to celebrate. The downtown professional theater is among 10 nationwide to receive 2010 National Theatre Company Grants of $10,000 from the American Theatre Wing, kn...
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August 26, 2010
Artist Arnold Mesches knew the FBI had watched him.“I would look out the window of my studio at 10 o’clock at night, and they would be there, and I would wave at the car,” Mesches recalls.He just didn’t know how long and how closel...
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