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Wednesday, March 10,2010

Kick the state out of our bars

By Brian Clarey
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is contemplating the possibility of privatizing the booze business in our state, something I've been complaining about since pretty much the day I moved here.
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Wednesday, March 3,2010

What's in a name

By Brian Clarey
They found Andrew Koenig in a Canadian park, about two weeks after he'd killed himself. It's a tragedy all around: a young man, 41, from a successful family who showed early promise and then lost his way.
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Wednesday, February 24,2010

Rollin' dem bones

By Brian Clarey
In a non-descript strip mall not too far from the YES! Weekly offices, at a storefront tucked between a DQ and a nail salon, I purchased $20 worth of internet time. I then sat down in front of a computer screen, gripped the mouse and began playing slots. For money.
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Wednesday, February 17,2010

Little black bags

By Brian Clarey
Just a week into its mission, the International Civil Rights Center Museum has already accumulated gravitas on the corner of Elm and February One as a bastion of the movement that caught fire here so long ago. But a mile or so down Market Street, another marker on the journey for equality humbly awaits discovery and, perhaps, recognition.
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Friday, February 12,2010

The ghosts of football seasons past

By Brian Clarey
For the first time since the days following Hurricane Katrina, a group of New Orleanian expatriates and aficionados got together Sunday on West Market Street to pay homage to the city they love.
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Wednesday, February 3,2010

After 50 years, a proper tribute

By Brian Clarey
The blanket of whiteness draped over the city on Saturday has by Monday morning turned to jagged ice on the roads that lead downtown. And on this Monday morning in Greensboro, it seems, all roads lead downtown.
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Wednesday, January 27,2010

Of sinners and Saints

By Brian Clarey
There's an old joke they tell in south Louisiana about a couple Cajun fellows named Boudreaux and Thibodaux - actually, there are a lot of Boudreaux and Thibodaux jokes, but this one seems particularly apt today.
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Wednesday, January 20,2010

Some kind of monster

By Brian Clarey
On Friday night in the Smokey Bones barroom, our crowd was starting to get a little rowdy. "I want strawberry lemonade!" one said. "Me too!" "Me too!" So a round of strawberry lemonades is procured for the bulk of our party, who range in age from 2 years old to 14, while their dads make do with pitchers of Red Oak.
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Wednesday, January 13,2010

Where there's fire, nobody gets burned

By Brian Clarey
I am sitting here puffing on a big, fat cigar in the middle of downtown Greensboro just one week after the statewide ban on smoking in bars and restaurants went into effect.
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Wednesday, January 6,2010

crashing THE GATE

By Brian Clarey
he warm afterglow of Christmas lasted exactly eight days in my house, just eight days of exultation in the fellowship and goodwill that usually lingers long after a successful multi-generational family gathering, which also means that the...
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