Celebrate love, health, and your local LGBTQ+ community at the 2021 Virtual Pride Parade, hosted by Triad Health Project. 

YES! Weekly recently spoke to Lauren Reihl, Executive Director of Red Dog Farm, while Riehl was delivering two new rescues to the 21-acre intake facility her organization recently opened off Highway 65 in Stokesdale.

“Father’s Day is a holiday that has historically been overlooked,” said Lovelle McMichael, co-organizer of Uniting Men for Change.

Below is a list of curated events happening this weekend in the Triad designed to celebrate Juneteenth. 

When Andrea Santolim Geller graduated from UNCG last month, she bought a mobile office and studio that she also intends to live in. It’s a 40-foot-long classic yellow Thomas Built school bus with a Cummins engine, and she’s named it Bailey. As the mobile headquarters of LemonThyme Studios, G…

A former police officer who accused Forsyth County Commissioner Tonya McDaniel of fraud claims to have documents contradicting McDaniel’s version of events.

After 42 years based in Raleigh, the Miss North Carolina Organization is moving all its pageants to High Point Theatre in High Point this June. The move comes after a year hiatus due to COVID-19.

While defending a bill she describes as intended to protect infants born alive after failed abortions, North Carolina State Senator Joyce Krawiec (R -District 31) has repeatedly described an incident in which “a baby was left to die in a soiled linen closet.” Each time she has told the story…

This week the nation stopped and took a moment to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The tragic event left at least 300 dead, many more scarred, traumatized and homeless, and a city on fire. 

“When the biggest employer in the area is paying poverty wages, it hurts all of us and our economy,” said Casey Thomas at a Wednesday rally held by Guilford for All in front of the Guilford County Detention Center on Edgeworth Street in downtown Greensboro.

GREENSBORO, NC  – The International Downtown Association (IDA) has recognized Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI) with an Award of Excellence for its 2030 Strategic Vision Plan within the Planning, Design and Infrastructure category. This category features unique organizational approaches and pro…

Since the beginning of the year, local creatives conceived, wrote, and rehearsed a one-act multimedia theatrical event about the importance of similarities and differences in humanity that is now coming to the Reynolds Place Theatre at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in mid-June. 

The upcoming election was a matter of importance on the agenda for the Greensboro City Council May 18, 2021 meeting listed under Item 36, Resolution to Publish a Notice of Election for the November 2, 2021 Election.

The date to remember is May 5, 2021. The occasion is the baseball game between Ragsdale and Grimsley high schools. The reason it is important: on that date, during that event, Ragsdale senior Mark Winfield Scott pitched a perfect game. 

The Jamestown Town Council has discussed how to enforce the Town’s code ordinances for several months. Interim Town Manager David Treme suggested an outside firm be hired to do a ride-through of the town to check for violations and the Council approved two parts of his suggestion during thei…

More than 6,000 miles away, a man in Gaza live streams a view of Wendover Avenue, where hundreds of protestors are crying out for the freedom of his people.

The Willingham Story Slam @ MUSE Winston-Salem” will host a virtual storytelling event on Thursday, May 20, 2021, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., with the theme “The Mamas and the Papas.” 

They were frontline workers— individuals who woke up at the break of dawn to keep a community afloat within its darkest days. They were fathers and mothers in loving families, sisters and brothers, congregation members, and community leaders. Now, their names have turned into slogans, the vi…

Baseball diamonds in the Triad were left empty in the Spring and Summer of 2020, but that didn’t stop local baseball teams from finding a way to contribute to their respective communities.