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Last week I drove out to Lexington for a visit with Chef Dion Sprenkle with just two questions on my mind: How did Sprenkle, a relative unknown — at least to me and literally everyone I asked about him — manage to win Best Chef in our Best of the...

Roberts, who hails from the outskirts of Charleston, SC, attended culinary school at L’academie de Cuisine outside of Washington DC. He served as the executive chef at the Twin City Club in Winston-Salem for more than six years, but he realized his dream in 1998 in the Gate City.

The craziest part of an eating challenge is the focus: ignoring the clock, ignoring the people around you. At one point, your body and mind become singularly intent on forcing the food into a crowded spot. By taco No. 5, I still brimmed with confidence, but the fear mounted quickly.

To contextualize, residents of Salem had previously been allowed to let their pigs, primary sources of food at the time, roam freely throughout the town. Winston prohibited this in an ordinance that was eventually adopted and enforced once the two towns merged.

If you cup your hands against the panoramic picture windows on the ground floor of the RJ Reynolds Building in downtown Winston-Salem, you can still see the lobby: three kinds of marble; flourishes of Benedict metal, an alloy no longer manufactured;...

“Lawrence Joel was a military hero of the first magnitude,” Mayor Wayne Corpening said during the opening of the coliseum named in honor of him and all US military veterans in 1989. “His valor has been equaled by few soldiers throughout the history of the United States of America, and exceeded by none.

It’s a good time to be reading comics. The industry has been revitalized thanks to an influx of interest from blockbuster movies and video games, and readers are flocking into stores. Sales have been steadily climbing, and March’s numbers for print sales show that comics are making a strong comeback.

ARTS & LEISUREBest Movie Theater: The Grande Luxe, GreensboroRunner-up: Carousel BattlegroundNotes: The new restaurant/theater takes first in its debut. Best of Winston-Salem is the Grande 18.Best

Guy Clark didn’t mince words when he sang, “I have seen the David/ I’ve seen the “Mona Lisa” too/ I have heard Doc Watson/ Play “Columbus Stockade Blues.” It might be decades before Watson’s legacy is completely unraveled, but the festival that he founded and steered into one of folk’s great commodities feels the impact of his loss right now.

Since coming to Winston-Salem more than a decade ago, the festival has become an ingrained component of the city’s cultural and economic landscape, as noted by both Winston-Salem mayor Allen Joines and Milton Rhodes, the outgoing president of the...

The gig: Big Lick Bluegrass Festival The site: biglick-festival-park.com The place: Big Lick Festival Park, Oakboro The buzz: Traditional bluegrass festival at a “wide spot in the road between Charlotte and Albemarle. “Worth going just for the T-shirt.”.

Amidst rumor and several VatiLeaks reports, Pope was fingered as the architect of a long-running campaign to elect Pope Francis. Funneled money from wildly successful North Carolina campaigns ended up in the hands of Super PACs who smeared European papal candidates.

The debate was so divisive that several city staff members remarked that it was reminiscent of the previous council, which was known for bickering. Speakers from the floor, including several local bloggers, said this was an attempt to eliminate opposition to the performing arts center.

For months the school board has resisted calls by members of the community for an investigation, but even moderates such as board member Jane Goins relented when an journalistic exposé by the online publication Camel City Dispatch disclosed that...

All four blogs, she said, will be immediately shut down and their web addresses redirected to a new blog started by the company, which will keep readers updated with press releases and “user-generated content… viral videos, instagrams, that kind of thing.

In fewer than 30 seconds, Miami’s superstar Shane Larkin drops a three on the other side of the court, putting Miami ahead 29-27. Larkin’s father Barry won a World Series with the Cincinnati Reds in 1990; he’s sitting right there in the stands behind the Miami bench.

Curtis McLaurin, a driver for the Winston-Salem Sanitation Department, steered truck 459 into the parking lot at Cedar Cove Condominiums off Peace Haven Road as part of his regular route last month.

In 2010, Greensboro’s Stephanie Lindley came to the realization that the only friends she was spending time with were males. In hopes of boosting her psychological health, Lindley, an actress, musician and director, got online and reached out to her female friends, almost all of whom are local artists.

Taking some by surprise, a seemingly spontaneous discussion about seeking alternatives to Downtown Greensboro Inc. ended in a 9-0 vote last week at the Greensboro Cuty Council meeting. Consensus may be a hallmark of the Winston-Salem City Council, but it is rare that Greensboro’s governing body comes to a unanimous agreement.