Deloris Davis, a technology support specialist at UNCG who lives in the new Meadow Oaks subdivision in south Greensboro, was reeling from a city council vote the night before as she settled into her couch and opened a folder containing correspondence and city planning reports detailing the battle that has consumed.

There’s something you should know about the stage at Time Out: If you cross it during a drag king performance, you will be slapped. The bartender issues this warning twice before the first king ever sets foot on the polished parquet placemat that passes for a stage at the tiny lesbian hangout on Bellemeade Street in Greensboro.

“A woman, somewhat intoxicated, grabs the microphone and starts chanting ‘Sixty Eight Months! Sixty Eight Months!’ to the crowd. The first few times it was funny… but after the seventh or eighth time, we had to kindly let her know that it was not the name of our band.

the radio hit that’s been stuck in your head all week, “Our Song.” Other plans Saturday night? No worries. They’re playing the following day in Charlotte at the Verizon Amphitheatre. Tickets are available at www.livenation.com..

It’s raining, just slightly. We drove through worse on the way here. Besides, it’s good to look at a house in the rain. It puts the realtor on edge a bit — he can’t count on sunshine and a lovely view to cloud your judgement. Also, you can spot leaks.

The arrest of Graham Public Library employee Marxavi Angel Martinez has the makings of a cause célèbre: a sympathetic subject, a murky law enforcement decision and a flashpoint of controversy. Following a couple weeks of reporting by the Burlington Times News.

We all know at least one. That person who is good at pretty much everything they try. And good at a level that makes them money, not just “entertaining your friends” good. Zooey Deschanel is best known for her roles in major motion pictures such as Almost Famous, Elf, The Happening.

Shalini Chatterjee spent the summer of 1989 hand painting animation cells at New York University. Nineteen summers later the former film student cradles an oversized videocassette inside her West End office and muses on the march of moviemaking technology.