It was the golden age of haberdashery. Men wore their shoes shined, their clothes neat and pressed. A crisply knotted necktie and a hat was essential. The 1960s and '70s were a period of booming business, says Chuck Cotton, owner of Bob's Hatters...

Forgive us for lapsing into first person plural, but we here at YES! Weekly are extremely proud to have been a part of the 19th annual Carolina Blues Festival, held this past Saturday in Center City Park...

Writer Mariela Pérez-Simons gazes intently at her computer screen and consults a notebook full of barely decipherable writing propped against stacks of CDs in the cluttered cubicle she occupies in Batanga.com's offices, housed in the old Revolution Mills building on Yanceyville Street...

A Vince Neil after party attracts freaks with a certain kind of commitment...

The expansive Greensboro Coliseum is packed elbow to elbow with fans waiting for a Motley Crüe concert, something that hasn't taken place in Greensboro since they were banned seven years ago. A large red-and-white-striped circus tent made to look old and mildewed, its curtains closed, takes up the entire stage...

Rhiannon O'Conner, a 22-year-old UNC-Asheville education student who grew up in Greensboro, has always wanted to shatter stereotypes about women's roles in society. With the United States becoming more engaged with the Middle East, she also wants to challenge stereotypes about Arabs...

Like it or not, television is important.Though it began as a bastard offshoot of radio and film, it grew and matured as an industry over the last 50 or so years and now commands a wider audience on a more regular basis than either of its predecessors. Do you know any people who don't have television sets? Odds are that their number is smaller than the people you know who watched “American Idol” last night...

Walking into the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store on High Point Road is like stepping into some remaindered furniture market that is both a museum of kitsch and a tribute to the solid craftsmanship of the Piedmont's once-thriving furniture industry...

The first Fools of the Floor B-boy competition pulled battlers into Greensboro, No'Calina on April 2 from the Boogie Down Bronx and the mean fields of Faison...

Fayetteville on the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is a military city rumbling with dissenting enlisted soldiers and returning soldiers trying to profit from the traffic of DVDs smuggled out of Iraq. Nearby Fort Bragg, the largest military base in the United States, meanwhile, is locked down tight as a drum...

Monte Smith, a 31-year old poetry host from Winston-Salem – a white man in a black hoody wearing Coke-bottle glasses and wisps of facial hair – stares into a sea of mostly black faces in the audience on the second floor of the Kress Building for the Red Bull Word Clash.

The Palestinians, joined by dozens of international activists who came to the West Bank to protest the occupation of the territories seized by Israel in 1967, had successfully crossed through Qulandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. It was August 2004, and they celebrated the completion of a three-week march along the route of a separation wall under construction by spray-painting political slogans on the Israeli side of the barrier.