November 17, 2009
Jim Curry is not leaving on a jet plane, high in the Rocky Mountains, or driving country roads. Last week, Curry was taking a brief break in a Costa Rica hotel, between trips on cruise ships where he performs music of the late John Denver. Curry has devot...
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November 13, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM - Many religious leaders of history, the Rev. John Jackman says, would make boring movie material.“There is too much preaching and praying and reading of books — not very dramatic,” says Jackman, senior pastor of Trin...
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November 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — Steve Sumerford’s contributions to the local arts scene extend well beyond the doors of the Greensboro Public Library, where he serves as assistant director. He directs the library’s literary festivals, “Poetry GSO: B...
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November 10, 2009
GREENSBORO - Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" ranks among the most frequently performed and popular operas in North America. Greensboro Opera has staged it before, too. But not quite like this.
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November 8, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Rain pours outside as controlled chaos reigns inside the Community Theatre of Greensboro rehearsal studio. Dancers practice their tap routines. Actors read lines. Youngsters and parents line the hallways. The oldest arts organization in Guil...
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November 5, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Don Morgan has decorated floors, ceilings, walls and furniture in his years of painting murals and faux finishes. "But I can't say that I have ever painted a violin," Morgan says. Now, he can. Morgan drew on his faux painting talen...
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November 1, 2009
GREENSBORO - Steady rain creates a dreary afternoon outside the O. Henry Hotel. No day for artist Chip Holton to paint an outdoor scene. But that doesn't distract him from his quest. Holton walks the lobby, contemplating nosegays of pink roses set up with...
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October 20, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Vicki King’s voice trembles as she describes her diabetic brother’s renal failure.“He’s only 52. It’s such a shock,” she tells the physician assistant in training. “Do you think that I could...
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October 15, 2009
Whenever Nancy Eudy needs to buy a gift or remembrance, she heads from her Oak Ridge home to The Fat Cat Ltd. "What a wonderful store," Eudy says. Owner Gwenn Lance moved her gallery from Madison to Oak Ridge Commons in 2007.
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October 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — James Barnhill has sculpted some of Greensboro’s most celebrated heroes.His bronze statue of Gen. Nathanael Greene, the Revolutionary War hero and Greensboro namesake, towers over the roundabout at Greene and McGee streets downto...
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October 8, 2009
GREENSBORO -- As local artists prepare for the 12th annual Artstock studio tour this weekend, the troubled economy has colored their approach. Artstock has adopted the slogan, "Stimulate local creativity and economy," and its artists are working...
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October 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — So vibrantly did Linda Tavernise capture color in her paintings, friends wondered whether she could hear it, smell it, taste it. Warm yellows, oranges, yellowish greens, orangish reds. Cool blues, greens, blue-greens.
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September 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — Not making the cut at TV’s “American Idol” tryouts this year did not dissuade Marques Haynesworth from his singing career. “I took the constructive criticism and told myself, 'This is not the end,’ &rdquo......
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September 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — When The Cemala Foundation commissioned Burnsville artist Ron Fondaw to install art on the Greene Street parking deck, they aimed to attract the eye and appreciation of passers-by. As it turned out, the art also attracted vandals. Over...
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September 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Howard C. Jones designs big dreams. So when the Triad Stage scenic designer envisioned a lawn for his set of William Inge's drama, "Picnic," he naturally pictured real grass. But not a lush, plush lawn. "We are in Kansas......
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September 8, 2009
An occasional column about people in the local arts community.GREENSBORO — A symphony orchestra concert changed Fouad Fakhouri’s perspective on music.He was only 11, growing up amid tumult in civil war-torn Beirut. The fourth generation in a...
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September 6, 2009
For the first time in 33 seasons, the N.C. Shakespeare Festival will stage only one play this month, instead of two. Greensboro Opera will cut November performances of "La Traviata" from two to one and will cut back on costumes and scenery. And...
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September 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — Jeanie Duncan will step down Nov. 30 as president and CEO of the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, a post that she has held for six years.Duncan announced her planned departure Thursday to the staff and board of directors of th...
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How "American Idol" Fantasia Barrino became the lead in "The Color Purple" musical has the makings of Broadway legend. Until a producer invited her to watch the show in early 2007, the High Point native says she had never even seen a B...
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August 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Public art advocates gathered Friday at Greene and Washington streets to celebrate the new festive look of the Greene Street parking deck, and to look ahead at the future of public art in the city.Multicolored polycarbonate wheels that...
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August 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — Artists long have created art from found and natural objects: rocks, bones and plants in centuries past; scrap metal, paper and cloth now. “Anything we see around us has the potential to be considered aesthetically,” says Ra...
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August 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Arts organizations felt the uncertainty. They knew that it was a tough time for the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro to raise money to help support their work. They also knew that the arts council had retooled grant criteria to...
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August 4, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — It has been two years since Larry Leon Hamlin passed away. But his presence pervaded Monday’s opening of the biennial event that he founded, the National Black Theatre Festival. His photograph in signature dark glasses flashed...
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July 31, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — The biennial National Black Theatre Festival returns Monday for six days, packed with plays, celebrity sightings, poetry, film, workshops and shopping. Audiences can choose from among 116 performances by nearly 40 black theater compa...
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Kim Wayans displays much more talent than Li'l Magic, a wannabe child actress character she created on the groundbreaking 1990s Fox sketch comedy show "In Living Color." Like several of her famous Wayans brothers, she acts, produces, writes and...
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