June 14, 2009
Melinda Waldrup takes a seat on the floor of the maid's quarters at Körner's Folly in Kernersville. She speaks into her tape recorder, noting the time: 9:15 p.m. The lights go out. In the next room Caroline Rogers asks, "Is anybody with us tonig...
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June 12, 2009
Dustin Keene takes pride in the fact that even a director with millions of dollars at his disposal and a cast full of A-listers would be hard-pressed to accomplish what he has done for the past three years and what he hopes to do again next weekend: write...
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May 15, 2009
The price for two tickets, two popcorns and two sodas at Sedgefield Crossing's Cinemas: $9, or roughly the same as a single adult nonmatinee ticket at some of Greensboro's other movie theaters. As personal entertainment budgets have shrunk, the audiences...
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May 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — Michael Townsend eyed a police car as it drove slowly past Zeto wine & cheese shop on Saturday afternoon. Townsend said he’s had people sic the police on him a few times, thinking he was some sort of vandal. But what he was do...
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Pamela Kirby sees her book as a love story. A male "courts his young mate," she writes. "He perches ... He calls. He offers her worms." A lifelong conservationist, Kirby got involved in bluebird preservation efforts nearly 30 years ago...
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April 19, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Ten years ago, the Greensboro Children's Museum tossed aside the "Do Not Touch" signs and let kids pretend they were firefighters, doctors, even grocery store clerks. Now, the museum is breathing new life into its exhibits and has...
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Betsy Grant says not all kids have to love artichokes, broccoli or spinach. But they shouldn't be afraid to try them, either. Grant, chief executive officer at the Greensboro Children's Museum, says she hopes her institution's latest project, the Edible S...
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April 15, 2009
Whole Foods, Houston, 2004. I was nosing around the produce section looking for some mangos when I happened upon a sample tray topped with what appeared to be orange slices. But these were deep purple, like something Prince might have worn circa 1984. Nev...
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March 15, 2009
Enrollment at Leon's Beauty School is maxed out. The same goes for Rockingham Community College, which is busting at the seams with applicants for its health-care programs. And because of high demand, Forsyth Technical Community College briefly considered...
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March 13, 2009
When Travis Bowman moved to North Carolina three years ago, family members told him to visit Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, where his ancestor Peter Francisco was enshrined. Francisco was perhaps the most famous soldier during t...
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February 27, 2009
The closest Ben Best has ever come to playing baseball was in the 8th grade, when he played intramural softball and was booed for nearly knocking out a 5th-grade girl while trying to run to second base. Other than that, he's never showed much interest in...
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February 17, 2009
Tracy Barajas had been a stay-at-home mother for seven years. But when her husband Gabe lost his job at Bill Davis Racing, she decided to raise a glass. She went to bartending school. "We have kids, and I was having a hard time finding something where I...
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February 13, 2009
Kernodle Middle School seventh-grader Chaz McDonnell and his pointer, Rigel, did not make it into the finals in the Junior Showmanship competition at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year. But they still had a good time hobnobbing with some of th...
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February 3, 2009
Rigel is the brightest star in the Orion constellation. Chaz McDonnell hopes that Rigel is also the brightest star in New York's Madison Square Garden next week. The 12-year-old Chaz will lead his stellarly named pointer into the ring for the Junior Show...
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Christian Manelopoulos and Rachel Corbin are used to competing together as handlers and groomers at dog shows. But this year the husband and wife are competing against each other for the Cardinal Crystal Show Dog Groomer of the Year Award. "It's great for...
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January 24, 2009
You turn your machine on and wait for it to boot up. You click your mouse. You get to work. Twenty-five years ago today, Apple's Macintosh revolutionized home computing, doing away with DOS prompts, and making accessible something most computer users no...
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January 22, 2009
A veteran of *NSync, Lance Bass knew how to bust a move. He just wasn't quite sure if he could cut a rug. The 29-year-old singer appeared last season on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," and the tangos, foxtrots and sambas he had to perform on the show we...
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January 4, 2009
Your 401(k) may be in the toilet, your job on the line and your wallet thinning. In these hard times, though, you can still pour yourself a glass of nice wine, nibble on imported cheeses and get good seats at the theater -- without spending a lot of money...
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December 24, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Eggnog, chef Brad Semon says, has much in common with its fellow holiday treat the fruitcake. "They both have a strange consistency, they have sort of an unnatural color, they're probably not too much like anything else you would eat or drin...
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December 2, 2008
David Hall has never seen Miley Cyrus live, but he knows what it's like to be at one of her concerts. The crowds. The screeching. The hands reaching out toward the star. Every time they walk into a room full of kids, he and business partner David Rawlins...
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November 30, 2008
Cameron Bennerman dominated the basketball court at Grimsley High School, Hargrave Military Academy and N.C. State. Now, he hopes one day to score on the catwalks of Milan, Paris and New York. The 24-year-old Greensboro native is putting out a line of T......
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November 23, 2008
Shortly after Helene Cooper moved to the United States, a teacher asked where she was from. Cooper said she was from Liberia. The teacher asked where that was. "West Africa," Cooper said. "You're from Africa?" the teacher replied. "You sound like you're f...
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October 29, 2008
GREENSBORO - Though some of his supporters may like to think so, Barack Obama cannot outrun a locomotive. John McCain may have been a flyboy in his earlier life, but he cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound. But they are, for the moment at least, o...
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October 28, 2008
GREENSBORO- Buddy Matthews is used to being the butt of jokes for his fondness for Yugos, and even makes a few cracks himself about the Eastern European import. "These cars had A/C," he says. "Which was good for cooling your ankles." But the funny looks h...
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October 24, 2008
BURLINGTON — Tequan Richmond is too cool - at least by the standards of Chris Rock. In 2005, the Burlington native auditioned for the lead role in the sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris," which is loosely based on Rock's childhood. When it came time to inte...
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