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Grave Concernsnew
A zombie comic book series wants your braaaains.
Eugene Weekly |
Aaron Ragan-Fore |
02-17-2012 |
Art
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
Some of the Most Important Black Films Ever Madenew
Black film (or films dealing with black reality) didn't start with '70s blaxploitation. There was black film in the early part of the 20th century, and not just any film: Oscar Micheaux tackled race issues almost a century before the advent of Melvin Van Pebbles, Spike Lee, and John Singleton.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Black History Month, Black Films
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
Black History Month: Eleven Films to Watch in February and Beyondnew
Black History Month is a great excuse to watch some of the best music-related films there are. Those of you who haven't seen these gems will thank me forever.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Black History Films
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
'Six Degrees of Separation': Sometimes the stranger is closer than bloodnew
Inspired in part by a real-life incident in which a young black man charmed his way into the homes of wealthy white New Yorkers by pretending to be the son of a famous actor, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation explores the strangeness of the people we are related to, and the mysterious recognition that can spark between strangers.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
02-16-2012 |
Theater
Watching really, really good pingpong at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trialsnew
Slams are said to approach 80 miles an hour. As impressive as these shots can be, even more impressive is how often they're returned. It's hard to do justice to the freakish reflexes that were on display at Bond Park.
Tags: Pingpong
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
Greetings From the Puppy-Play Capital of the Worldnew
Meet Scott Moats, the globe's top designer and fabricator of realistic dog masks used for the fetish known as "puppy play."
San Diego CityBeat |
Enrique Limon |
02-16-2012 |
Culture
Tags: Puppy Play, Scott Moats
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
Whitney Houston: A (Very) Personal Tributenew
I've been a music journalist for nearly three decades, and yet my reasons for mourning Whitney Houston are much more personal than pop-cultural. Whitney's life and career have overlapped with mine many times and on multiple levels in the past 28 years.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Mark Kemp |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Whitney Houston
Mardi Gras 2012: The Beernew
Jeremy Labadie, aka the Beer Buddha, on where to find the best brews near parade routes.
Gambit |
Jeremy Labadie |
02-14-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Mardi Gras Beer
