A quick note on galleries at colleges and universities: Their websites aren’t always easy to find and then often their calendars are out of date. So a press release in my e-mail inbox is much appreciated. Thanks to Marcus Keely at Hanes Gallery for keeping me in the loop.

Welcome to this week’s YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, in which we ask elected officials about their jobs. This week’s questions are directed to members of the Winston-Salem City Council and pertain to the council’s legislative agenda. The rules are simple: No research, no callbacks.

One wet Saturday afternoon in March 2010, two Mexican sisters, Imelda Chang Mendoza, 44, and Elandi Chang Mendoza, 36, encountered Officer Ian Stanick, a 22-year-old cop with less than a year on the job, outside of Elandi’s house in an economically battered section of east High Point.

David Regnery, the Forsyth County GOP’s recommended nominee for appointment to the Winston- Salem/Forysth County School Board withdrew his name less than 24 hours before a scheduled vote by the county commission to fill the unexpired term of Donny Lambeth.

The first impression is of a damaged or antiquated photo, a slipping film reel, but the granular accumulation of pencil marks on second examination tells the viewer to look closer. The techniques in Selby’s conceptual toolbox include blurring, doubling images and repeating frames.

A new exhibit of Falk Visiting Artist Yoshua Okón’s work opens at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro on Saturday. Okón, who divides his time between Mexico City and Los Angeles, “creates staged and improvised situations that challenge notions of reality and truth,” according to an exhibit note on the museum’s website.

The Winston-Salem City Council voted in September to approve a $2.3 million incentives package for the project, including a $250,000 direct grant, a $500,000 low-interest loan and $250,000 in public infrastructure improvements.

When Pat McCrory is inaugurated as governor on Jan. 12, he will usher in an era of complete Republican control of state government in North Carolina after more than a century in which Democrats dominated both the executive and legislative branches of government.

I prefer “Untitled,” a companion piece by Boston that shows a disemboweled teddy bear with a howling, multi-faced skull protruding from the abscess. For me, the sculpture subverts the benign dancing bear of my childhood infatuation with the Deadhead scene by making the cuddly stuffed animal a victim of a gruesome World War I artillery attack.

It’s all but certain that the Forsyth County Commission will vote to approve Mark Baker as the replacement for Debra Conrad, who has resigned her seat to serve in the NC House. The commission meets on Thursday in a special session to consider the recommendation of Baker by the Forsyth County Republican Party.