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Combat Experience Spurs Student’s Artistic and Theological Journey
The women are cast in a warm glow, vessels of dignity and courage — either ancient or timeless, depending on one’s angle of view. They are flawed beings each in their own way, but blessed protagonists in God’s drama.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Art
Tags: war art
One Man’s Trash: Repurposing for Art’s Sake
The impulse to emulate Mother Nature is, at its heart, an artistic inclination. In the case of Greensboro artist Adrian Boggs, it’s his life’s work.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Art
Tags: adrian boggs, greensboro art
Here’s to Reynolds Price, a Great Southern Writer
A North Carolina native son, spectacular author, poet and playwright, Reynolds Price is certainly a man deserving honor and respect, especially among the theatrical and literary crowd of his home state.
YES! Weekly |
Lenise Willis |
02-16-2012 |
Performance
Tags: Reynolds Price
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
A Dream Deferred
Tonight the dream lives in the auxiliary basketball court at Winston-Salem State University, a perfectly serviceable expanse of seasoned hardwood, with rudimentary bleachers and old-school fiberglass backboards.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Sports
Clams vs. Oysters in Winston-Salem
Pound for pound, Winston-Salem is the best food city in the Triad. That’s just an opinion, of course, but one informed by a decade of discriminatory eating in the area.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Food+Drink
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
Spaz is Snooki's manager? Whaddaya nuts?
How does a reality TV mega-star choose a minor-league baseball team’s mascot to be her personal manager?
Hint: Appearances are not always what they seem.
YES! Weekly |
Ogi Overman |
11-23-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: snooki
