ShareTweetReview by Derrick Kirkman The Legend: On the off-chance that some reader somewhere doesn’t already know, Levon Helm was the drummer for The Band. He was a headliner at Woodstock. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and the cover of Time magazine. He stars in what is usually considered the best concert film ever
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ShareTweet The people of Greensboro are enduringly ardent on the subject of tree & tree limb removal at the hands of Duke Energy. Ardently opposed, that is. Neighborhoods like Westerwood and Southside, who bear the brunt of Duke’s actions thus far, reached out to the community and have unified over their losses, creating the Greensboro
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ShareTweetWheat paste and sweat, stencils and cigarette burns. You can find them in train yards, risking their lives and toes for a prime tagging spot. Others can be found in back alleys, side streets, and behind dingy bars. Greensboro may not have the biggest graffiti scene in the world, or even in North Carolina, but
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ShareTweetShopping at major chains on Black Friday has a higher incidence of death than marijuana. It’s true. The risk of physical harm to your person aside, shopping locally helps our small businesses and craftsmen. Keep your holiday shopping local, and you kill two gifts with one stone.   The Really Really Free Market Glenwood Coffee
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ShareTweetBethAnn Russell, owner of Vandalism Studios at The Creative Center, is a unique artist.  As all artists like to think of themselves as unique, and the previous statement seems obvious, I’ll elaborate.  BethAnn is young, extremely talented in oil and acrylic painting, jewelry making, drawing, and public speaking.  And BethAnn has schizophrenia that onset during
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ShareTweetArt has breathed new life into a rather dead-looking tree in Fisher Park. In Magnolia Court, an already picturesque corner of the historic neighborhood, Mexico City-based artist Kang Seung Lee, borrowed a lift from Partymakers in order to make art happen here. Using hundreds of white feathers, Kang ornamented the tree in a way that
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ShareTweet“This is like – what do they call it in sports? Yeah, our first ‘home game!’” Jen Guy Metcalf is a graduate of the UNCG Dance Department, and currently the founder and director of the Terranova Dance Theatre. At the City Arts Center in downtown Greensboro, our chickens finally came to roost last week after
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ShareTweetI bought my first comic when I was five during a family vacation to Ocracoke Island. We were at a drug store buying toiletries and I saw The Punisher War Journal staring at me from the comic stands near the magazines. It was love at first sight. When I moved to Greensboro, I became a
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ShareTweetOn March 27, 2012, I got my first tattoo.  My friend Keith Warther asked me why a woman of my age would want to do such a thing.  “I mean,” he said, “for someone of my generation, it’s just something we do, but. . .” On March, 27, 2011, my mother, Doris, died.  The journey from then
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ShareTweetI’ve been friends with Whitney McDavid since she turned 21 a few years ago. We bonded over our love of cheap cigarettes and cheaper beer. Shortly after befriending her I found out her dad, Allan McDavid, and her step mom, Sarah McDavid, own Terra Blue which is a coffee/new age shop a block down from
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