AltWeeklies Wire
Art vs. History in Washington DCnew
We found Abner Doubleday in his final resting place, on the west side of Arlington National Cemetery beneath a grand marble obelisk amid more humble tombstones and slabs.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-26-2012 |
Commentary
Crashing Myrtle Beachnew
They call it Pirate Land, in Myrtle Beach, SC, a place predicated on family fun, seaside mirth and the pleasures of the outdoors: swimming pools, paddle boats, golf carts, all of it.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-20-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: myrtle beach
In the strip club with Vince Neilnew
By the time I get to the strip club, Vince Neil is already there, plushed out in the VIP section. He’s tucked into a banquette against the wall, surrounded by the kind of women guys like Vince Neil seem always to be surrounded by: leggy, buxom, mostly naked.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-05-2012 |
Commentary
What a Rushnew
Is it too late to pile on Rush Limbaugh, America’s most reviled and celebrated talk-radio host?
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-26-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Rush Limbaugh
Diggy makes Unexpected Arrival in Greensboro
I can hear the screams — high-pitched, sustained, the kind that pierce right through the eardrums and go straight to the brain — from outside the gymnasium of Kiser Middle School, and the kid’s not even inside the building yet.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-21-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: diggy simmons, Kiser Middle School
Tales of an American Homeownernew
It started with the blinds in the dining room — thin, crappy, cheap ones that dangled from the window frames when we bought the house. Over the years they’ve been mashed by chairs, splattered with food flung from the spoons of infants, tattered by our oversized collection of cats.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-24-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: home ownership, house upgrades
The Winter of my Content
I shaved the beard off this morning.
It was a pretty good one, as far as my own history with facial hair goes: a coarse ruff that spread across the hollows of my cheeks with a reddish tinge, a disconcerting spot of gray on my chin. I let it go longer than any other beard I have ever worn, long enough that the spaces at the parentheses on either side of my mouth, the bald patches on my jawline filled in somewhat. My mustache of rusted wheat grew long enough to curl over my upper lip. And under my chin the hair darkened to a deep brown, the color of roasted coffee.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: beards
Remembering the Ship of Fools
I’m talking about column writing, a game I’ve been playing for more years than I care to count — though if I actually sit down and tally it up, the number comes to about 20.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Writing
Not a tent citynew
1961 was a long time ago in Greensboro. The city was still reeling from the 1960 Woolworth’s sit-in that would eventually change history. There was no airport, no mall and lots of unused land.
Things have changed on almost every front. But last week the city of Greensboro issued a letter to business owners citing a forgotten piece of municipal code that dates back to 1961 concerning something that has become commonplace in the ensuing years: tents.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
01-18-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: greensboro tent cities
Seven Years Gone Bynew
Hard as it is to believe, the issue of YES! Weekly you hold in your hands — or the one you’re browsing online — marks seven years of publication for our little newspaper.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
01-04-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: yes weekly anniversary
A Big Boy at Christmasnew
He’s practically vibrating in the seat next to me, this kid. Just 9 years old, recently made privy to the Big Christmas Secret, and he’s beside himself on this, his first Christmas mission on the other side.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-23-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: christmas, santa claus
Late-season Reflections in the ’Domenew
I had the pleasure of sitting behind the river-side end zone in the Louisiana Superdome — excuse me, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome — a couple weeks ago as my beloved New Orleans Saints leveraged a convincing 31-17 victory over the Detroit Lions, paving their way to a division championship and playoff berth.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-15-2011 |
Commentary
Big Time in New Orleans
The bar has anchored this corner in the French Quarter of New Orleans for more than 150 years, and very little has changed — no neon, no Jagermeister machine, not a naked-lady-shaped novelty cup or set of plastic beads in sight. Though it’s still morning, time was when I would belly up to this old, cypress bar — there has never been a barstool in Tujague’s, ever — set my foot on the bowed brass rail and begun the day’s chase.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The holiday bait and switchnew
No, my annual grumbling set in around the same time it usually does: just after Thanksgiving, when the moneyed interests unleash a full blitzkrieg on our weaker impulses with the goal of stripping us of more money that we want to spend. The trigger was a piece on the television news, a spot report issued the day before Thanksgiving from the front lines of the battle on our bank accounts.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-03-2011 |
Commentary
Mermaids in Greensboro
They move inside the cavernous Greensboro Aquatic Center with feline grace, the US Women’s Synchronized Swimming Team, gliding across the deck like a single organism at the city’s newest swimming pool. Beautiful.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
11-23-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: crashing the gate
