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In honor of our Back to School Issue, we present to you the cadre of bartenders currently working the sticks at Old Town Draught House, nestled neatly within the confines of the UNCG campus. Old Town is not exactly a college bar - most undergrads are not of legal drinking age - but it's symbiotic relationship with UNCG cannot be denied.
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Yep, we've been there and done that. But our undergraduate experiences span three decades, range from large state universities to boutique liberal arts colleges, run from quirky college towns to cosmopolitan urban areas.
There is a school of thought that believes great beauty comes only at the cost of great pain and suffering. The lives of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton are a testament to that axiom. In the summer of 1984, an unknown intruder broke into Thompson-Cannino's Burlington apartment and raped her at knifepoint.
The first was filed by 39 black officers; the second comes from Officer Julius Fulmore, a bitter rival of Scott Sanders, the detective whose job for the better part of three years was to keep tabs on black cops accused of wrongdoing.
Sure, the Piedmont Triad is known for its barbecue. But there's a whole world of cuisine within our borders. Italian, Greek, Chinese, French, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Irish, Mexican, Caribbean, Southern and Middle Eastern restaurants abound.
Everyone loves lists. The Billboard charts, Forbes magazine and direct marketing firms exist because of that fact. Well, maybe not all lists are great, but here's one that won't end up filling your mailbox with ads for the Publisher's Clearing House or male enhancement: the 100 Greatest North Carolina Songs.
Luis pointed out the new washing machine and telephone in the kitchen of the two-bedroom house where he and two fellow immigrant farmworkers stay six months a year while working on a vegetable farm just outside Creedmoor. A single, bare lightbulb illuminated the wood-paneled kitchen as Luis spoke after preparing dinner on May 8.
This year's Carolina Blues Festival, the 23 rd annual fete put on by the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society on Saturday at Greensboro's Festival Park, has something for everybody. We've got contest winners, local heroes, piano heroics, guitar wizardry and a couple bona fide legends all gracing the stage.
The Marines offers an alternative with better pay and benefits, personal development and opportunities for advancement and education. But to join the Marines, he must graduate from high school. For Brian, the opportunity may be too distant and the challenge too hard. Sergeant Long asks where he wants to be five years from now.
It's that time of year again, when we mine the collective preferences of our readers and then print the results for all to see. We got more entries this year than ever before, thanks in large part to our new internet voting system at www.yesweekly.com
When the lights go down in the Stevens Center next Wednesday night, and the first frames of the romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer begin to flicker on the big screen, thus will begin the eightday RiverRun International Film Festival in the city of Winston- Salem.
Going to plant a weeping willow, On the banks green edge it will grow, grow, grow Sing a lullaby beside the water, Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll These words had heft, meaning… a kind of common-man poetry that still influences my writing to this day. In summer 1986 I went to my first Dead show. They were paired with Bob Dylan at Giants Stadium. I drove out to Jersey with Silly, and we scored tickets in the parking lot, where several dozen kids from our high school were partying and making deals.
As Corey Weaver prepares for another gig with his bandmates in Bloodline Severed, the curious nature of the venue doesn't strike him as being the least bit ironic.
The place: Festival Park; downtown Greensboro The buzz: The folks at the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society survived several years of inclement weather and venue changes before finding their groove and a home in downtown Greensboro One(s) to...
For Mexicans, mainly from the indigenous south, traveling to the United States to work without authorization means one illegal border crossing. For Central Americans, it means at least two. And it means crossing hundreds of miles of Mexico, mainly by rail, imperiled by the possibility of dismemberment under the wheels of the cars; robbery, rape and violent assault by bandits; and extortion and violence by police and railroad employees.
Maria Mendieta entered the Information Systems Building at Wake Forest on Feb. 21 with her 15-monthold daughter, Eliana, on her hip and with her 2-and-ahalf- year-old son, Oswaldo, in tow.
What's in a name? Maybe nothing, maybe everything and the administration, staff and board of the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem are hoping it's a little bit of both.
They stood in line for Scott Sanders friends, relatives and the cops who once worked by his side in the Special Intelligence Division and other branches of the force. They hugged him tenderly, crying. They clasped him roughly and thumped his back. Some laid their heads on his shoulder.
On Stratford Road every morning from six 'clock until noon, Donald Daniels sits on top of two crates beside a stack of newspapers. He smiles to the drivers and waves to most cars that pass; and he's constantly rising up from the crates, paper in hand, and limping to car windows.
I set out to salvage the holiday, to reclaim its essential significance from the marketing parasites that manipulate our personal insecurity for their own commercial gain.
The marquee above Rocco Scarfone's N Club, the only electronic billboard on Elm Street, displays a visual sequence showing sharks nosing around the depths of the sea, then an infantry line of orange taxis in an urban scene that evokes New York City's 8th Avenue, before announcing, "Welcome to Greensboro's Times Square."
They’re all out: folks from their twenties to their sixties, and they’re shivering from the evening chill, yes, but also they shake because this event, this party, has been 10 years in the making. And they’re here not only to celebrate, but also to pay tribute to the two guys, both named Chris, that have helped them usher in the mornings since their unlikely debut in 1999 on Rock 92.
Courtroom 501A of the Forsyth County Justice Center fell eerily silent on the morning of Jan. 8. Danielle Marquis Elder of the NC State Attorney General's Office and David Pishko, the attorney representing Kalvin Michael Smith, had just completed their closing arguments during a plea hearing for Smith to receive a new trial.
Surveillance video from the night of July 2, 2008 shows Lankford Protective Services Lt. Byron Wayne Meadows striding briskly behind 22-year-old Russell Kilfoil past the double doors that open from the waiting area inside the Greensboro transit hub onto the sprawling shed where buses idled as the drivers prepared for the final run of the night.
Past the stone gate of Chandler Point, Burnside Street rises into the pastoral hills of Rural Hall. It is joined by other roads with bucolic names like Aurora Glen Drive and Whisperwood Street to make the groundwork of a model suburban community. There are sidewalks, streetlights, walking trails and, below ground, sewers and wires.
At this time of year, more than any other, it becomes very clear the fabric of our society is held together in large part by the work of agencies and individuals who endeavor to assist those in need. This is the essence of the Christmas spirit. YES! Weekly.
"It's the magic that's kept me in it," says Hayes, as he greets another regular by name. "Original music is a hard road to travel, and it depends on family and friends to support it. Anyone can go to a cover club." Onstage, Icarus is launching into a set of such rock and roll, having passed muster with Kindred. Things run smoothly at the Tavern; the next band, Death Proof (the name is a reference to their Christian beliefs, not the Quentin Tarantino film), is already setting up their gear next to the stage while Icarus plays, assuring a relatively seamless transition between acts, while the opener, Vaughn Street Glee Club, have already broken down their equipment and moved it out of the building.
After a history of presenting its shows at various venues throughout the city, including Wake Forest University and the last dozen or so years at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Theatre Alliance finally has a little home to call its own.
On Friday nights in the Whiskey District, the music pours out onto the streets. When the weather's nice, chatter floats above the patios and open doorways of the bars and cafe when it's not so nice folks traipse across Walker Avenue from one warm, dry watering hole to another.
Amber and her 10-year-old daughter Brooklyn sit in the hard plastic chairs that circle the round table, a centerpiece in their one-room home. Two sets of bunk beds line opposite walls. A double bed, carefully made with a blue and white quilt, nestles in the corner near the large, blinded window.
The percussive sounds of an activist drum corps echoed off the brick walls of the Hampton Homes housing project in Greensboro the Saturday after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. A parade of people roughly 175 strong made its way north along Ashe Street towards downtown.
On Day 16 of The 5th Quarter’s production schedule, the film adaptation of the story of former Wake Forest football player Jon Abbate and the loss of his younger brother, Luke, during the Demon Deacons’ 2006 dream season, crew members worked quietly and efficiently in and around the Gold’s Gym off Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem. As grips, electricians and set dressers worked in a cramped workout room, preparing for a scene featuring Ryan Merriman, who plays Jon Abbate in the film, a sense of peace and calm fell over the 100-member crew. Despite the fact the film company had a good number of scenes to capture before day’s end, the set felt less like a Hollywood movie and more like a family reunion. There were several reasons for that.
The editorial staff of YES! Weekly enthusiastically endorses Kay Hagan for US Senate. Hagan's election could help the Democrats achieve a super majority in the Senate. In the current fiscal crisis, Democratic control of Congress is critical.
John Gladman is an outsider to the political arena. Hes worked for more than a decade to help improve the lives of those living in poverty. Gladman, the assistant director of social services for the Salvation Army, said hes seen first-hand the trickle-down effect of decisions made by the Forsyth County Commissioners during his 13 years of service.
Almost every old rental house in Greensboro is said to have a ghost by the college students who live in it, and for some reason those ghosts are always female and prefer attics.
