As she sells her modern handmade tableware, Emery knows learning more about her craft can only strengthen her foothold in her profession. Even with her recent successes, she continues to try and finish school at Guilford College while running her business.

Joyner knew she had something special. “I thought, I have got to implement this on my bus.” Joyner went to Jamestown Elementary School administration and asked to start a program where older children read to younger ones on the way to school. After approval, she gave the students the option of involvement in January.

Kathleen Block solves problems with clay. Her fledgling business, Clay by K-Block, has found her with a diverse clientele with an equally diverse set of problems. The situation is perfect for Block, considering the beginning of her business..

Caitlin Rhyne leads a double life. By day she’s a mild-mannered costume designer who dresses up like superheores and supervillains. By night... well, she’s a she’s a mild-mannered costume designer who dresses up like superheores and supervillains..

Employing five artists, two piercers and a permanent make-up artist, Tried & True and Spainhour do not believe in “pick-and-pop” tattooing. Spainhour’s years of experience at several shops in the area gave him a feel for what serious tattoo lovers want.

Brandon Earl’s life in golf started early. He began teaching in high school before working at Prestonwood Country Club as a PGA Class A professional in 2008. Earl has had plenty of time to notice the flaws in the teaching system, so he started A Better Way to Golf in 2011.

Normal high school students might describe their lives as tedious. Most high school students are not expecting to make six figures this year. Jack Hoskins’ JK2 Designs started last January as a way for Hoskins to show off his appmaking skills. “We focus mainly on iOS development, but we’ve done a lot with Android apps as well,” Hoskins said.

Caitlin Sullivan knows how you feel. She sells glasses, sure, but she knows how uncomfortable buying them can be. At Oscar Oglethorpe, downtown Greensboro’s newest location for stylish vision correction, she has tried to change the way the process works.

Normally, opera lovers go inside to see the talent, but on March 20, Piedmont Opera Executive Director Frank Dickerson, brought the performance outside. He celebrated the success his theater has had this year in downtown Winston-Salem by dancing to music from The Nutcracker.

So maybe they didn’t make it out of the quarterfinals of the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, losing to UNC 77-59 in the Greensboro Coliseum on Friday. But Florida State University did bring the finest squad of cheerleaders. More properly, the FSU Golden Girls are a dance team — no pom-poms or besweatered dudes lifting them in the air — ranked No.

Tom Landock III (far right) started from humble beginnings before opening Everything Euro, his Volkswagen and Audi repair and performance shop. “I picked it up from my dad, started working on [Volkswagens] in the yard, moved to a garage and finally opened up my own shop.

Singing has always come natural for Jamestown’s Chrissy Simpson. “I’ve been singing since I can remember,” she said. Simpson, 28, sang in her church choir growing up and later became vocally trained. She has overcome her fears and subsequently reaped the benefits.

Promising Greensboro percussionist Scott Johnson possesses plenty of experience for a 21-year-old. An aspiring ethnomusicologist, Johnson began playing drums in a rock band while in middle school, but now enjoys music from a multitude of cultures.

This week’s cover model Carly Dukes does not look like the nervous type when it comes to tattooing. But, she says, “I get nervous and throw up before I get each tat.” She has a range of work — from her favorite, the queen of hearts, to her first, a butterfly commemorating a lost friend, Dukes endures the process.

This Valentine’s Day, Wooten Gough and other activists in immigrant and LGBT rights organizations are partnering to spread the love. Gough, who is part of el Cambio and GetEQUAL NC, said several groups are coming together to issue several demands.

When UNCG professor Saundra Westervelt and Kimberly Cook agreed to start working on this book more than a decade ago, little had been written about what happens to death-row inmates after they are exonerated.

We joke about PR being the dark side of journalism, but it’s difficult to cast Carla Kucinski’s move from Go Triad.

Scotty Bonds can trace his interest in cooking back that far, when his dad started showing him around the kitchen. Bonds began making desserts with a Martha Stewart snickerdoodle recipe, moving on to cupcakes when he grew bored with the simplicity of cookies.

Brittany Carroll always wanted to be a teacher because she wanted to make a difference in her community and she saw the positive impact teachers had on her life — until her eyes were opened to the world of nonprofits. She thought nonprofits could reach greater numbers and decided to steer her career in that direction.

Monica Reid used to be morbidly obese. She thought the meaning of life was merely to exist. She lacked courage and confidence in herself, and didn’t think there was anything she could do to change. Then she began working out at the Kraze Fitness Center in Winson-Salem.