Theres no one way to build a legacy, as the case of Rodney Holman neatly illustrates. Holman, a Triad native, is a multi-talented artist dividing his writing skills between poetry and music. His self-published collection of poetry, The Universal Solvent,.

Stacey Ingram had been working as a professional photographer for five years when she decided to make a shift in her business: Why not have sexy photo shoots for real women? Simply Boudoir photography was born about a year ago and, says Ingram, Its going a lot better than I ever imagined.

During her career in finance, Toni Goins had seen everything: credit cards, banking, mortgages, investments, insurance. And through it all she noticed a glaring need for a certain kind of business. "I found the need for women to learn how to invest and make smart choices with their money and the resources they have," she says.

Beauty is more than skin deep for Jessica Truesdale, a Spelman College senior and Greensboro native, who is giving 10 percent of the proceeds from sales of her True You Cosmetics beauty line to Salvation Army of High Point through Jan. 11..

Originally Rene Rodriguez was here on Page Three to plug his upcoming events, but it's fitting top keep him here at the front of our Meaning of Life Issue. Rene is a cancer survivor, diagnosed at Stage 4, after it had moved from his tonsils to his neck.

You dont need to know what gluten is, you just need to know that it is in just about everything that uses wheat flour, which is a serious concern to those who cannot digest it. Lindy Clark and her husband Don discovered they were both gluten intolerant in 2008, and found it difficult to find foods without it.

Brea Sharron, this weeks Page Three model, likes to stay on her toes. The dancer-turnedfitness model has always been a physical person. Ive been dancing competitively for 20 years, she says. But after a car wreck, her doctor told her to stop dancing, so she started going to the gym.

Lacy Green may currently be a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, but she's a Triad girl at heart. That's why this week's Page Three model will be bringing her trio to Southern Roots in Jamestown on Friday at 7 p.m. for a free show.

When Face to Face attempted to bring 500 young people to vote in the last election, they knew they had a hard battle. Donovan McKnight, one of 10 founders of the Greensboro non-profit, says, It was tough. We knew that going in. Of Face to Face, at www.

"I had never even heard of the Westerwood before I worked here," admits this week's Page Three model, Kathleen Leary — odd, because she graduated from nearby UNCG in 2009 with a double major in communications and dance.

Though Erin Upston Cuevas grew up in Greensboro, she's been gone 10 long years, off to Los Angeles where she's been working in the film industry. "I worked for six years with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott," she says, helping put together films like In Her Shoes.

Lauren Kearns has an impressive resume that spans beyond her current home at Elon University, where she is an associate professor and head of the Dance Department, as well as artistic director of the Kearns Dance Project.

"By day I am the company mangaer of the Greensboro Opera Company," says this week's Page Three model, Elena DeAngelis, "but I perform with the company as often as I can." Elena, a trained soprano who cut her teeth at Mercyhearst College's D'Angelo School of Music, will take a turn in this year's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Back when she was attending Sacred Heart on Long Island, she was Diane Simons, but now she embraces her alter ego, Daliana, with an eponymous dance studio that specializes in exotic fare — and we don't mean stripping or pole-dancing. "My dance originates in the Middle East, but it travels every continent," she says.

Hattie Aderholdt of the Greater Greensboro United Way describes her job thusly: "I head up the planne' giving efforts," she says, "gifts that are left in peoples wills. We've got a good number of folks, members of our Legacy Society.

This weeks Page Three model is a career woman as well as a fulltime mom: Meagan Kopp, who helms the marketing department at downtown Greensboros Carolina Theatre which, incidentally her boss and former Greensboro Mayor Keith Holliday just suggested be converted into a city-owned downtown performance space.

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Many of the hundreds of hours logged by Greensboros Elsewhereians in preparation for this Saturdays Carnivale (see story on page 40) were logged by this weeks Page Three model, Talena Sanders, who is not only the collectives media coordinator but will be one of the performers, busting out tapdancing moves she hadnt used in years.

Pierre the Gentleman, out of Guilford College and UNCG via Brooklyn, NY and Miami, comes to Page Three at the behest of his label, Isore Records, with which hes been affiliated since 2003 as the flagship performer. His celebrity comes through the underground mixtape circuit, with The Mixtape Takeover, The Volcano.

These days, getting married entails a whole lot more than just getting together on the courthouse steps and picking a pig in your mamas backyard. There are cakes to sample, caterers to audition, wardrobes to consider, invitations, seating arrangements, music.