Summer, a 5-month Blue Persian, was among the feline show animals at the Central Carolina Cat Fanciers’ Annual CFA Allbreed Cat Show in High Point in January. (photo by Kenny Lindsay)
Greensboro country-pop artist Lisa Dames promoted her CD, No One Like Me, by aggressively cross-promoting with local franchises such as the Waffle House restaurant on Big Tree Way in Greensboro. And working hard. And refusing to take no for an answer. “I’m not drop-dead gorgeous like Shania, not a genius like Steven Jobs, and certainly not the best singer out there, but I will work my fanny off trying to make people think I am. My whole thing is that I’m average, I’m attainable, there’s nothing about me that’s extraordinary.” (photo by Ogi Overman)
Tattooist John Bury, known to many as “Little John,” took his own life by gunshot. He died Jan. 30. Our writer, Ogi Overman, described Bury as “a renaissance man, a world traveler, a modern-day Will Rogers who never met a man he didn’t like. He fancied himself a pirate, but one who was able to glide easily among social strata, never bothering to differentiate the cultivated from the hoi polloi, the pure at heart from the miscreant, the high achiever from the outcast. A former Navy man, he weathered the storms of life with the dignity of an admiral but with the humility of one who’d been battered by the unforgiving sea.” (courtesy photo)
Darryl Hunt won $2 million from the city of Winston-Salem after two years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Brian Clarey spent some time with the newly minted millionaire in February to document his third act: “After half a lifetime coming up in Winston-Salem’s east side and half a lifetime behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, Darryl Hunt finds himself in a corner office on the third floor with views of the courthouse and the jail. He looks pretty good, bulky after years of prison workouts and fit enough to cut a figure in a patterned jacket, pleated slacks. He still speaks in an easygoing monotone, and his face still makes sunshine when he smiles.” (photo by Daniel Bayer)
Boba Fett, one badass Mandalorian, is flanked by a biker scout, a TIE Fighter pilot and a straight-up stormtrooper outside the Radisson in High Point, where the 32 nd annual Stellarcon sci-fi convention was held in March. Other notable guests included some Tusken raiders, lots of clones, a handful of Jedi and Darth Vader himself. (photo by Kenny Lindsay)
Followers of Christ come in all forms the Piedmont section of the Bible belt: Scotty Irving, who performs under the moniker the Clang Quartet melds performance art, extreme percussion and industrial noise to invoke the resurrection of Christ at the Werehouse in Winston-Salem on the day before Easter. (photo by Jordan Green)
Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory and Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue appeared at the Embassy Suites hotel near Piedmont Triad International Airport on April 9 before a group of regional business leaders. McCrory (pictured) and Perdue respectively went on to win the Republican and Democratic primaries. In the general election, McCrory, who grew up in Jamestown, did not even carry his home county of Mecklenburg, and Perdue handily won the contest. (photo by Jordan Green)
Writer Dave Roberts described the peculiar alchemy of a club scene in his May 14 report on working DJs in Greensboro: “There is no other entertainment venue that engages so many instincts. A bar hasn’t the pumping blood exertion; a gym lacks the spontaneity; concerts don’t possess a tenth of the sexuality. Only clubs combine all these and more into one dizzying cocktail of visceral experience.” (photo by Daniel Bayer)
Winston-Salem’s Heavy Rebel Weekender takes place in the Millennium Center for three days every July. It is a cacophony of rockabilly, outlaw country, tattoos, muscle cars and Zippo lighters. (photo by Brian Clarey)
Stephanie Sherman, Neraldo de la Paz, George Scheer, Alain Guerra and Mary Rothlisberger [sp?] converge under “Six Trannies In Heaven,” a textileart installation by Miami artists de la Paz and Guerra at Elsewhere in Greensboro. (photo by Jesse Kiser)
Editor Brian Clarey was part of a film crew that eventually placed in the international 48-Hour Film Project, resulting in a screening of their short film “JoBeth” at the Cannes Film Festival in June. Pictured here in front of the Palais Festival are Director Matt McNeill (left) and Producer Dustin Keene. (photo by Brian Clarey)
Fighter Allen Greenway works out at Champion Muay Thai in Statesville before a bout at Mayhem in the Cage on May 31 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum Annex in Winston-Salem, the first professional mixed martial arts match in the Triad since 1995. Such fights were illegal until the NC General Assembly overturned a decade-old statute in August 2007. (photo by Kenny Lindsay)
Sean Coon, promoter and ringleader of the Dotmatrix Project (right), and crew members prepare to post live concert material on the internet from one of the group’s productions last summer. (photo by Jesse Kiser)
Greensboro’s improvisational comedy theater, the Idiot Box, moved its digs from the Empire Room across Elm Street to the corner of McGee Street in September. Hilarity ensued. (photo by Brian Clarey)
