AltWeeklies Wire
Obama Campaign Pours Resources Into North Carolina Triad Regionnew
A capacity crowd packed the Obama campaign's Winston-Salem headquarters during a grand opening on Feb. 29 in which organizers urged volunteers to sign up for phone banking with neighborhood team leaders.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
03-08-2012 |
Elections
Triad Gymnasts Go Big Timenew
Kristin Aloi was a standout student at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, finishing as class valedictorian in 2010. While in high school, she also acted in the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but she had another passion besides the stage, one which ultimately became her main extracurricular activity.
YES! Weekly |
Tilly Gokbudak |
03-08-2012 |
Sports
Tags: gymnastics, NC State
Style and experience set apart conservative candidates in N.C. District 74 GOP primarynew
Forsyth County Republican voters will get the opportunity to choose among three conservatives, including two experienced politicos and one newcomer, in the primary contest to determine who succeeds Rep. Dale Folwell in NC House District 74.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
03-08-2012 |
Politics
Greensboro Residents make noise about proposed ordinancenew
Greensboro City Council won’t vote on proposed changes to the city’s noise ordinance until March 6, but residents are already fired up.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
03-05-2012 |
Politics
Muslim parents and Guilford schools join forces against bullyingnew
Karen Mujali sat at a table apart from her three children, who crowded into a booth at Nazareth Bread Co. Bakery and Restaurant with the children of the restaurant and bakery's owner on a recent Friday night.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
03-04-2012 |
Politics
Leap Year by the Numbersnew
We say that a calendar year is 365 days, and it is, more or less. But it takes just a little bit longer for the Earth to make its lap around the sun, about 6 hours, making a full year 365.24219 days. So we add a day every four years, a process known as intercalation.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-04-2012 |
Features
Where Hot Dogs Become Haute Dogsnew
Hot dogs get no respect. You can buy them for a dollar on the street. They look like phalluses. Nobody takes them seriously.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-02-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: greensboro hot dog
Tree cuts anger Fisher Park residentsnew
Kay Lovelace stood under a small tree, only a few feet over her head, on Olive Street in Greensboro’s Fisher Park neighborhood. Looking up at it and pointing to where it had been cut back from the power line, she said, "I planted this pear tree."
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-27-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Fisher Park
No Grammy, but Eric Church is still our ‘Homeboy’new
You could say that Eric Church's North Carolina homecoming went a lot like the lyrics to his recent No. 1 country single "Drink In My Hand." He filled it up, he threw down and, judging from the careful attention he paid to the red Solo cup full of whiskey on his mic stand, he likely got a little hungover.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Eric Church
Winston-Salem council okays incentives for local company Inmarnew
Members of Winston-Salem Council unanimously approved an "aggressive" incentives package for a local company, while lamenting a skills gap preventing many unemployed residents from taking advantage of the new jobs.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-27-2012 |
Business & Labor
Tags: inmar winston-salem
Opponents Rally Against N.C. Marriage Amendmentnew
If anyone thought North Carolina's Amendment One would quietly pass, changing the legal recognition for domestic partnership and further solidifying a ban on same-sex marriages, the last few weeks in Greensboro have signaled strong community opposition to the proposed state constitution amendment.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-27-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: DOMA, Amendment One
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
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
Greensboro Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Second Anniversary
The legacy of the Greensboro sit-ins and the first years of the museum have given the community much to commemorate and celebrate, including steady attendance, increased programming and possible new funding sources and exhibits.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
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
