My week started off with the hopes of going to a show at a venue that I had yet to write about. Upon checking schedules and talking to friends, I recognized a slightly familiar band name from the past: King Khan the Shrines (myspace.com/kingkhantheshines).

Terri Green started working for Coil Plus, a steel company, about two weeks ago in the ordering department. And because she values her job, she gave us an interview in the company bathroom while on a break. Got to love the backstory. Her MySpace page says she divides her time between Greensboro and Myrtle Beach.

Winston-Salem police found 15 sticks of dynamite on July 3 in the basement of a duplex on Reynolda Road. A family cleaning out the basement discovered the explosives around 1:30 p.m. and called 911.

After languishing for two years in the Irish legislature, the Nuclear Test Ban Bill of 2006 has recently been rethought and refurbished, according to a June report in the Irish Independent. Originally, the bill codified the UN Test Ban Treaty, adding some provisions specific to Ireland.

While Iran's leaders saber-rattle and quote the Quran, the country's multitudes of young adults are embracing New Age self-help, as exemplified by the best-selling books and sold-out seminars of motivational guru Alireza Azmandian, according to a June Wall Street Journal dispatch from Tehran.