AltWeeklies Wire
Redistricting and Retirement Opens Forsyth Legislative Races
When Gov. Bev Perdue issued a statement on Jan. 26 that she would not seek re-election, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines was inundated with e-mails, text messages and phone calls from friends, colleagues and supporters.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Elections
A Many Splendored Thing
Love is beautiful.
It lets the heart sing, defies reason or intellect, makes the world go round.
Love is eternal. Love is a flame. Love is what we are all searching for, and what the lucky few of us have found.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: gay couples, lesbian couples
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
'Green Shoots,' Creative Destruction
I have never had the pleasure of meeting Keith G. Debbage, professor of urban geography at UNCG, but I greatly respect anyone who thinks deeply about the intersection of economy and public policy and marshals intellect to "foster positive growth in the local economy."
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Economy
Tags: urban geography
Elisabeth Motsinger Looks to Unseat U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx
On Jan. 12, inside the well appointed home of Stephanie Pellet and her husband Rajesh, Elisabeth Motsinger quietly launched her campaign for US Congress.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Elections
Jeff Mangum Thrills Chapel Hill Crowd
It took some coaxing from the unassuming Jeff Mangum before the murmur of voices was mildly audible, and it wasn’t until nearly the end of his set that his hundreds of new back-up vocalists actually raised their voices to meet him.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Mangum
Paying Respect to the Queen of Soul
She sang at Obama’s inauguration. She sang at King Curtis’s funeral. She even sang at Wrestlemania in its golden years, but after a lengthy wait and serial cancellations, Aretha Franklin finally came back to sing for North Carolina.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Aretha Franklin
Forsyth revaluation expected to cut into county budget
The Forsyth County budget is expected to take a $11.4 million revenue hit in two years following the scheduled 2014 tax revaluation, which is anticipated to show a 12-percent depreciation in aggregate property values.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Forsyth county budget
Get to know this guy A$AP
By about 12:10 a.m. early Saturday morning at Greene Street Club, the scene on stage had essentially crumbled. What was at one time a sold-out hip-hop show by one of the brightest up-and-coming rappers out there had become an unidentifiable onstage cluster of iPhone documentarians, dumbfounded security, a few random dudes smoking kush, and the show’s headliner hovering in the mix. Dirty South hip-hop is legendary for shows like this, but that it was Harlemite A$AP Rocky is what makes it all the more curious.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: A$AP
My Sundance 2012 Experience
Every January, I make my annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, to work on the Sundance Film Festival. This year marked my 10th time working on the most prestigious film festival in North America. And this year’s crop of films was as impressive as any lineup I’ve seen since my first Sundance way back in 1999.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Sundance festival
Greensboro Exploring Options for a Performing Arts Center
Everyone seems to agree the War Memorial Auditorium at the coliseum complex has seen better days, a fact that has become increasingly clear over the past few years as the number of events dropped dramatically and necessary repairs went untouched.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Downtown Winston-Salem contends with growing pains
City leaders hope to avert a collision between the interests of residents and business owners in downtown Winston-Salem by revising the city’s sidewalk café ordinance as the district’s vitality reaches a new level.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Downtown Winston-Salem
The Passion of the Whites
“I can’t half see straight,” Mamie White declared the moment after being handed a microphone Friday night at Johnny & June’s Ultra Saloon. “I’m just kiddin’.”
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: The Whites
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
