October 19, 2008
GREENSBORO -- That someone would be shooting it out over a barrel of oil isn't such a farfetched notion nowadays. And so the fighters of Rogue Cell, Red Star and Team Krisis head into the woods near Sedalia to duke it out for the sake of humanity's energy...
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DANVILLE, Va. -- Not too long ago I got my chance to stand up for big oil -- or at least a fictional version of it. The members of Rogue Cell invited me to take part in the battle for Energy Corp., "a group of corrupt, power hungry politicians" who appare...
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October 8, 2008
REIDSVILLE -- Joy Thomas says she's always wanted to run a pastry business. That business has now gone to the dogs. Working out of her home in Reidsville, Thomas bakes her own dog treats, flower and heart-shaped biscuits with carob and yogurt vanilla fr...
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October 7, 2008
Lily Tomlin doesn't mince words when it comes to politics. She's unapologetically liberal and makes no secret of her dislike for the current administration during a 45-minute telephone interview. But when it comes to telling jokes, she hopes to score poin...
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September 28, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- The last passenger train pulled out of Union Station almost 40 years ago. But its waiting rooms may soon again be buzzing with travelers and its ticket windows, terrazzo floors and marble walls restored to their former luster. Under a pla...
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September 4, 2008
Aimee Mann may not be a "smiler," but nor is she an unhappy artist. With a catalog of melancholy tunes featuring themes such as drug addiction, alcoholism and "the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone," the singer-songwriter gets tagged by bot...
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August 23, 2008
Rick Luebke, showroom manager for the Architectural Salvage of Greensboro, once had someone come in and tell him that he should be ashamed of himself. The organization, an arm of Preservation Greensboro, strips old buildings, slated for demolition, of the...
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August 20, 2008
Swimmer Michael Phelps was reportedly consuming 10,000 calories a day in the run-up to his winning eight gold medals in Beijing last week.A fair number of those calories probably came from the kitchen of Greensboro chef Matt Brown.The 38-year-old Brown i...
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August 17, 2008
Rebecca Clark knows just how a dirty a job filmmaking can be. The director of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission was showing Anthony Minghella a property near Belews Lake in 2003 when he was scouting locations for reshoots on his movie "Cold Mountain." Sh...
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August 14, 2008
In an era when playlists are often dictated from afar, finding a local or indie band on the dial can be a bit like trying to find an LP at a Best Buy. But the likes of Jews and Catholics, Glissade and Paleface are still being spun at WUAG (103.1 FM) and a...
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August 3, 2008
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mad Libs word game, we asked readers to send submissions for an original Greensboro Mad Libs story. And you obliged, with some pretty amusing results. Here are some of our favorites:
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July 29, 2008
Jeff Swanson has been playing guitar for 27 years and says he doesn't need a virtual crowd to cheer him on. But he acknowledges that virtual crowds, along with virtual stages and virtual guitar strings are planting the seeds of musicianship in many of his...
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Jon Whitley, 23, has 10 years of guitar-playing experience under his belt and was recently admitted into the Berklee School of Music, one of the most prestigious music schools in the country.But after less than a minute into "Spanish Castle Magic" on "Gui...
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July 13, 2008
In 1996, Bernie Mann, a longtime veteran of the radio business, bought The State magazine. The Charlotte-based operation had been around for more than six decades, but had little name recognition, a circulation of only about 20,000 and a full-time staff o...
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June 24, 2008
Shooting on film and manually developing prints in a chemical solution may rapidly be losing its commercial viability. But working in the darkroom, Guilford College photography instructor Maia Dery says, is in no danger of becoming a lost art. "It's...
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Shooting on film and manually developing prints in a chemical solution may rapidly be losing its commercial viability. But working in the darkroom, Guilford College photography instructor Maia Dery says, is in no danger of becoming a lost art. "It's like...
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June 20, 2008
Leonard Stern drives a car with MADLIB on the licence plate. Every once in a while someone will honk at him while waiting at a red light. He'll roll down his window, and the other driver will ask if the license plate has anything to do with the word game.
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Leonard Stern drives a car with MADLIB on the licence plate. Every once in a while someone will honk at him while waiting at a red light. He'll roll down his window, and the other driver will ask if the license plate has anything to do with the word game.
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May 23, 2008
The fedora is gracing the big screen again this weekend in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." But the hat, along with other retro styles such as the newsboy, the bowler and the porkpie, is also providing cover for a generation...
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May 9, 2008
On her 39th birthday in 1996, Charlotte Fox reached the top of the world. From the summit of Mount Everest, the Greensboro native said she could see the curvature of the Earth. All the other surrounding peaks, which had once seemed so formidable, now appe...
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May 7, 2008
The imbibers at Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem aren't swirling or spitting. But neither are they chugging. Rather they are engaged in quiet conversation over lentil soup, with 6-ounce glasses of gold, red and black ales next to them. One could be forg...
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May 6, 2008
Bill Cosby has made many enemies in recent years for airing the black community's "dirty laundry" and calling out what he sees as its apathy toward teenage pregnancy, dropout rates and obscene rap lyrics. But he says he "couldn't care less."
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Bill Cosby has made many enemies in recent years for airing the black community's "dirty laundry" and calling out what he sees as its apathy toward teenage pregnancy, dropout rates and obscene rap lyrics. But he says he "couldn't care less.
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April 25, 2008
Kathy Carter can't tell you where the bodies are buried, but she can say where Michael and Kay Corleone do their Christmas shopping (Best and Co.) and how many cigars Frankie Pentageli had in his pocket (three). That knowledge paid off recently in AMC's U...
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April 23, 2008
The fruits of your labor, Bernie Kenan says, are sweeter than anything you can buy in a plastic carton. The 55-year-old part-time teacher is preparing to welcome pickers to her strawberry patch on Jonquil Drive. What they'll find, she says, is a riper an...
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