ShareTweetDrunken Prayer came highly recommended to me by the cream of the crop live music lovers and musicians that I respect.  So, when they came through Greensboro a couple of weeks ago, I went to see them play the Green Bean.  Listening to Drunken Prayer live, they felt familiar and I could almost put my
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ShareTweetIt’s days like today that I have an easy time getting Through The weather is shitting drizzle and fog at a Quarter After 10 Days where you look ahead and it feels like you’re headed towards nothing but barrel towards it anyway You want to pick up the phone but you won’t call Her You
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ShareTweet The eclectic band Toubab Krewe will be playing at the Blind Tiger on Wednesday, November 28th. Mixing West African, traditional Appalachian, and world music stylings, Toubab Krewe creates highly danceable (or if you’re not the dancing type, highly swayable, or at the very least highly head noddable) tunes. On Saturday, November 24th, Avant Greensboro
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ShareTweetSo much of the punk rock sound just comes at you hard, like a man with no finesse, and leaves you empty inside. Twenty five years ago, many a night I came home from a hardcore show, bruised and exhilarated, lonely but totally full of IT and lovin’ IT, whatever IT is. But at some
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ShareTweetDeep inside the bowels of a high-rise hotel in Greensboro I find myself staring down a massive tray of congealed grits. It is my duty to clean this buffet serving tray and restore it back to its original, pre-congealed grits state. It’s my first night on the job and the party to whom these grits
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ShareTweetby Julie Welch Back in 1866, a popular cattle herder and rancher in Texas realized that there was a niche (and need) for convenient, road-ready food for his fellow wranglers who often spent months at a time on the road, corralling wild Texas longhorns. Fast-forward 140 years, and replace the hungry herdsman with modern working
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ShareTweetRecently something had been bothering me. I’ve just felt strangely and subtly uncomfortable. It always seemed to come on as I was walking down Greene to my cooking job on Elm. I just figured that I was sick of doing kitchen prep or wishing I had time to work for the Obama campaign. Wrong. Suddenly
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ShareTweetThis is a guest post by local gluten-free fan Jeff SanGeorge, who will soon be interviewed here, so stay tuned. Zen Cat Gluten-Free bakery is growing into a new facility in the historic Glenwood neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina. Zen Cat is a three-year-old gluten free and vegan bakery that offers baked goods sold to
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ShareTweetI am a stagehand. I have worked backstage since the age of 16, and being 41 now, I believe I have a perspective that is both useful and educated concerning the Performing Arts Center debate that is currently brewing in the halls of City Council. And being a stagehand, what I have to say may
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ShareTweetWe’re so much more alone than we ever knew. Secrets burn the hottest of all and flame the world that I see this beautiful blue, and then the ashes fall in my eyes and I can’t see but its okay. I’ve always loved grey anyway. I live in a hothouse, filled with fumes and other
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