Jake Holloway needs a title. He's not politicking for one - it's probably never even entered his mind - but he deserves one nonetheless. His predecessor, Mel Lanford, the man who taught him the tricks of the trade, had one. Mel, as many patrons of War Memorial Stadium will remember fondly, was the "Doctor of Dirt," so it's only fitting that Jake have one too.

The brand new music video for Ricco Barrino's single "Bubblegum" opens with executive producer Waleed Coyote being detained and searched at airport security. Meanwhile, two of the stars of his record label, Barrino and P-Wonda, waltz through the metal detectors and down the terminal...

Forget the myth of the starving poet, laboring in his unheated room to write sonnets that won't be appreciated until years after he's dead and buried in a pauper's grave...

“Among all the composers that one knows about, he is certainly the most generous,” says Dmitry Sitkovetsky by way of introduction to Felix Mendelssohn's Trio No. 1 in D Minor...

“I had a rough childhood, kind of an experimental upbringing. I grew up in the science fair projects.” Comedian Chris Fox is working the room at Elliott's Revue, a 24-hour coffee shop/bar located on the northern outskirts of Winston-Salem's arts district. It's not your typical comedy club, but then again Fox is not your typical comedian...

The sun beats down on the submerged patio at Liberty Oak on downtown Greensboro's Washington Street, instilling a kind of languid agreeableness on the noontime diners. Two women whose sweat, expertise and hourly labor have played a key role in shaping the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission's massive report settle in under the parasol and flip open their menus....

When Katrina hit, Frank Smith was tending bar on a Mississippi River steamboat, pouring liquor for senior citizens. His girlfriend, Erica King, had been serving Hurricanes and counseling tourists on how to avoid purse snatchings at the famed Pat O'Brien's in the French Quarter...

Inside a nondescript industrial building somewhere on the south side of Greensboro's downtown, amidst stacks of drums, woodworking tools and strange contraptions, Mark Dixon tinkers with his latest creation: a chair that can be played like a xylophone..

Let's face facts: minor league baseball is not the big show. That's not to say you won't see some amazing play — you will, especially if you're a regular fan and you catch enough games to know who to watch...

There are various formulas and indices with which to measure a city's vitality, its growth and progress. And there are other, less specific and more qualitative ways to judge whether a city has 'arrived.'And last week, in one way at least, Greensboro has made it. Like New York City, like Las Vegas and New Orleans and Phoenix and even Salt Lake City, Greensboro now has a new way for people to get around town...