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Apr 12th, 2012 |
By Avalon Kenny
ShareTweetTHURS APRIL 12 -Melodime and Steve Everett @ The Green Bean, 8pm FRI APRIL 13 -Midtown Dickens, Romantic Animal, and Laila Nur @ The Green Bean, 8pm -Friday the 13th themed art show featuring works by Magena Morris and Arrington West @ CFBG, 7pm -Hi-Rollers, Fifty Bird Step, Arvid Noe, and Black Santa @ CFBG
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Apr 5th, 2012 |
By Avalon Kenny
ShareTweetTHURS APRIL 5 -Khan, Systems, and TBA @ Karate Dungeon 9pm -Benefit for Mayan Solidarity: Jeffrey Lewis, Other Colors, Kasper Hauser, and Piedmontsmen @ The Blind Tiger 8pm -Time Sawyer, Backwater Opera, and Alleghany Street @ Green Bean 7:30pm -Phuzz Phest (Winston Salem): Drag Sounds, The Hive Dwellers, Birds & Arrows, Blue on White, and
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Tags: april, events, greensboro, local, movies, music, shows
Mar 29th, 2012 |
By Avalon Kenny
ShareTweetAll shows are in Greensboro unless otherwise specified. Thursday March 29th -Bearded Folk, Stephen Murray + Robert Benjamin @ The Green Bean, 8pm -Lazy Cat Arts Benefit show feat. Village Tricycle, Laura Boswell, Matty Sheets & The Blockheads, Laila Nur, Molly McGinn, Painted Skulls, Emily Stewart and the Baby Teeth, and Megan Jean and the
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Mar 26th, 2012 |
By Katei
ShareTweet The first ever Cash Mob ascended on downtown Greensboro Saturday, March 24. Folks met up at the McGee/Greene roundabout (near M’Coul’s and The Carolina Theatre.) Armed with a mission of spending at least $10 at a local shop, meeting at least three strangers, and then meeting for drinks at a local eatery, the mob
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Tags: cash mob, design archives, greensboro, red onion, south elm alliance
Mar 19th, 2012 |
By Rae Cornwell
ShareTweetOne of Greensboro’s national journalists, Budd Wilkins, has just received accreditation to cover the Cannes Film Festival for Slant Magazine this May. Wilkins regularly contributes reviews – spanning all genres of cinema, new and old – for the online magazine. Here is one of our favorite reviews of his, this time for Belle de Jour.
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Tags: Budd Wilkins, Cannes Film Festival, Moonrise Kingdom, Slant Magazine, Wes Anderson
Mar 8th, 2012 |
By Rae Cornwell
ShareTweetThis weekend the Blind Tiger, as well as the larger Greensboro area, will be beset on all sides by the hairy, the moustached, and the bearded. Like a sea of sasquatches, the hairy ones will descend upon our humble town for one reason and one reason only, the first annual Carolina Beard and Moustache Competition!
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Tags: BAM, beards, Carolina Beard and Moustache Competition, M'Couls, moustaches, The Autism Society
Mar 2nd, 2012 |
By Katei
ShareTweetHave you heard? @KateiForMayor!!! The slogan-turned-twitter page has been popping up on social networks and shouted at shows all over Greensboro in 2012. A product of spit-fire facebookin’, Sheets-style wisdom, and Obama-inspired art, @KateiForMayor began in January as a response to the wide-spread altercation between an opinionated green-haired girl and a wizardly fellow on Tate Street; the first “katei
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Tags: #GSO, #KateiForMayor, greensboro, Mayor
Feb 7th, 2012 |
By Matty Sheets
ShareTweetPeople 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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Tags: duke energy, greensboro, high point, matty sheets, occupy greensboro, occupy movement, occupy wall street, utility commission
Jan 30th, 2012 |
By Matty Sheets
ShareTweet You don’t have to tell me. It’s stupid. Probably the most stupid thing I’ve ever done. Most stupid? Stupidest? Both. Now that everyone knows how stupid smoking is, and the only place us stupid smokers can still light up is outside, I have some grievances. First of all, smoking outside makes me lie a
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Tags: chantix, government, marijuana, matty sheets, smoking, taxes, tobacco
Jan 20th, 2012 |
By Avalon Kenny
ShareTweetGreensboro has been desperately in want of a record store, and that need has recently been filled. CFBG (Campaign For a Better Greensboro) has recently given us just that. Their record co-op has over 8,000 new and old records, along with CDs by local artists and listening stations. Some of you may recognize one of
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Tags: CFBG, co-op, greensboro, jack bonney, Records