Feature
Troupe Bellysima Presents: Belly and the Beats!
by Tristan Munchel These girls are kind of pretty! Even though that one has a gut. I like their shiny necklaces. This seat is so comfortable! Wow, are those swords? They are! Swords! On their heads! Boy, it’s warm in here. Wait, how old is that dancer? Why is the woman two seats down the
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Entertainment
Fringe Festival Dance Review 2012
by John Sanford Friedrich Performance art is always a moving target. In theatre where all lines are devoted to memory, the audience is guaranteed to never truly see the same show twice. Dance is even more fleeting of an art and as an experience. With no words hanging in the air, dance exists only in
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Slightly-bitter, slightly-short Valentine’s event post.
“Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.” – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I hate Valentine’s Day. I hate chocolate, flowers, and bullshit like that. I might be the Scrooge of Valentine’s Day. I’m not bitter, by any means. I haven’t been single on Valentine’s Day
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10 Tips for Open Mic Performers.
Here’s just a few things that may or may not help your next open mic performance. I’m no expert, by any means, but I have hosted an open mic here in Greensboro for almost 10 years. I’ve seen the best and the worst performances from the best and the worst performers, and I loved them all.
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News
Divided We Stand, United With Power People are standing up all over the world. We are not satisfied. We have a commonality in that. Other commonalities? Well, a lot of us would like to see world peace, we all like food, we want to be loved, and a lot of us would like to be able to go see a
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Eatsboro
New York Pizza on Battleground If you’re at all familiar with the historic college district of UNC Greensboro, chances are you’re also familiar with New York Pizza (or ‘N.Y.P.’) and its bubbly, crunchy-crusted pizza pies. It’s a Greensboro institution, for better or for worse. In my opinion, it is for the better. Every town, regardless of its student population, deserves
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Sounds
Glenwood Coffee & Books: The Leeves, The Queers, and more As I write this, I’m worrying about the knee surgery I may potentially need in my 30s. I’m thinking about the guy that threw his arm around my neck and choked me. I’m also wondering how many people grabbed onto my boobs last night. I think I lost track after the fifth boob-grab. I’m thinking about
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Sights
Slightly-bitter, slightly-short Valentine’s event post. “Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.” – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I hate Valentine’s Day. I hate chocolate, flowers, and bullshit like that. I might be the Scrooge of Valentine’s Day. I’m not bitter, by any means. I haven’t been single on Valentine’s Day
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Fiction
Apocalpyse Live: Rayne, Sleet, and Snow 2. Rayne peeked through her mess of blonde hair at her bloodshot blue eyes. She hadn’t been feeling well at all today. The blistering headache had forced her out of work for a second day in a row. Not that it was going to be a big deal; who was going to work in this
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Misc
It’s Amazing! A Tale of Travels Part 2 by Mat Masterson So it’s gonna be like that… The travels are off to one hell of a start. My train rolled into Nawlins around 7:30. Amtrak was somehow actually on time despite a number of delays along the twenty hour train ride. Twenty hours, as it turns out, really isn’t that long. I had
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Sports
Northern wins 3-A Championship: Great Game, Bad Puns Okay. time for me to fess up. I watched Northern play Page in early October. To say that I was underwhelmed by Northern would be kind. This Past Friday the Northern Nighthawks pasted Crest High School to take the 3-A North Carolina High School championship. And they did it with surprising ease. Let it sink
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