The balance is a combination of transportation bonds and other city funding sources. We need to move it forward soon as possible because that will create economic development and jobs in center city.” (candidate forum).

You feel around in the dark, unknowing of what lies ahead. And just when you’ve focused all of your energy on what could be in front of you, you feel the hot breath on the back of your neck.

In 1969, in the jungles of Vietnam, life was cheap. Allen Broach didn’t know that when he was drafted into the US Army in December 1968, just one day after he finished up his associates degree at Kings College in Charlotte, but he figured it out pretty quick once he got in country and the bullets began to fly.

During an organizational meeting last week, members of Equality Winston- Salem ironed out the final details of Winston-Salem PRIDE 2011, the first gay and lesbian pride event in the Twin City in 15 years.

Districts 1 and 3 have no primary. District 1 candidates Dianne Bellamy-Small (i) and Donnell DJ Hardy, District 3 candidates Zack Matheny (i) and Jay Ovittore, and District 5 candidates Trudy Wade (i) and Jorge Cornell will appear on the general election ballot in November.

Mayor Bill Knight and District 3 Councilman Zack Matheny stood with a penguin onstage at the OmniSphere Theatre at the Natural Science Center of Greensboro for a game of Jeopardy.

Weston Brown (left) and his business partner, Seth Parker, refine a batch of biodiesel fuel at their warehouse facility in Winston-Salem. Brown and Parker are hoping to gain EPA approval to produce greater quantities of biodiesel and use it in their company vehicles.

Everybodys talking about it green jobs, green businesses, green initiatives but is anybody actually doing anything about it?

It all started because of a bad check. Its actually a bit more complicated than that Stephanie Teague had been part of the fashion scene since she was a teenager, a model of the lean and leggy vari ety doing shoots and shows in Charlotte, when she got the offer to come to Greensboro and be the face of an online guitar shop.

Youll forgive Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco for feeling a certain kinship with Valentine Michael Smith, the protagonist in Robert A. Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land.

state scrutinizes finances of local Weatherization agency that has been troubled by quality control problems and leadership instability

Before John Coltrane became a legend, before he was canonized, before his time with Dizzy and Miles and Thelonius, before My Favorite Things and Live at Birdland and A Love Supreme, before Coltrane took everything we thought we knew about jazz and liberated it into sheets of sound, he was one of us.

Dont let the bedbugs bite. Both on and off campus housing in the Triad have seen their share of bedbugs in recent years, and while the bite doesnt particularly hurt, the red dots theyll leave can be embarrassing. Lately, according to WXII, the little buggers have been found at Wake Forest University.

Photo by Evan Brennan. Shot at Tanglewood Park, Clemmons. Production by Ink Photography Production. Wardrobe & props by Wild n Crazy Vintage. Hair & makeup by Salon Madusa. Models are Robert Dough & Cheri Osterholt. Art direction by Devender Sellars..

With campaign season for the Greensboro City Council election underway, organizations and candidates throughout the city are gearing up to register, educate and mobilize voters. Some candidates particularly incumbents know they have a base they can count on, while other aspirants hope to win with the support of people who dont normally vote.

On Jan. 10, 2010 poet Kwame Dawes was attending a writers workshop in Oregon when he heard the news. A devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake had struck just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reducing the Caribbean nations capital to rubble. A native of Ghana, Dawes grew up in Jamaica.

ALL AMERICAN GIRLS: A NEGRO LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (The Layon Gray Experience & The Black Gents of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA) Salem College Shirley Recital Hall: Thurs 8/4 8:00 p.m., $37 (#69), Fri 8/5 8:00 p.m., $37 (#93), Sat 8/6 3:00 p.m., $37 (#107), Sat 8/6 8:00 p.

IF YOU BLACK, YOU DEMOCRAT, exclaims an older black man while summarizing the sentiments of the black community. Onlookers in the Carousel Grande Cinemas nod their heads in collective affirmation upon hearing the mans statement and seeing his story on the big screen. They are Democrats, Republicans and independents, and they know his assertions to be true.

Not all dogs are good dogs. Some are ugly and cantankerous. Some are completely untrainable. Some wont stop humping your leg. But the dogs presented here as part of our annual Dog Issue are all good dogs. They help keep us safe. They break our hearts. They bring happiness to lonely people.

People who love trains really love them. A lady with a small digital camera snapped pictures of the approaching Amtrak Piedmont train on the platform behind the Depot in Greensboro, and a man raised his cell phone to do likewise. One of the conductors boarded passengers, directing them to the left or right depending on their destination and then came down the aisle to punch their tickets.