Publication: Yes Weekly

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem council votes to sell coliseum and stadium

jordan@yesweekly.comWinston-Salem City Council decided in a 5-2 vote on Monday to authorize the sale of Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum to Wake Forest University, with the majority brushing aside a substitute motion to put the deal on hold and ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Haunts of the very rich: Leonardo Dicaprio is The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be considered the quintessential Great American Novel, but thus far its literary allure has eluded filmmakers. Previous screen adaptations in 1925 (Warner Baxter as Gatsby), 1949 (Alan Ladd) and 1974 (Robert ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports
Guilford College
Guilford College

Justin Poe provides perilous view of shelter

jeff@yesweekly.com“What if people saw land dwindled down?Where would you build?” Justin Poe asks the questions in earnest. If humans were reduced to rocks and rubble, would we assume a different take on the importance of shelter?Or would we still strive ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes finds his muse in the City by the Bay

“Boring,” “mainstream” and “conservative” may be the last words that would ever be used to describe an of Montreal record, though Kevin Barnes is certain that his descriptions of his forthcoming album Lousy with Sylvianbriar — a Sylvia Plath reference, ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports
AstroTurf
AstroTurf

THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Preservation and farewell in Greensboro’s city cemeteriesWith two bare hands wrapped around the flattipped shovel, Brian Norris doesn’t have to step on the top of the blade with his work boot very hard for it to slide halfway into the earth. Norris works ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports
Amherst College
Amherst College

Grandma’s Greatest Cookie Contest

I’ll say this from the start: I was willing to eat 50 cookies if that’s what the gig required.And walking among the tables of wares at Grandma’s Cookie Contest at Independence Village in Winston-Salem — five of them, larded down with chocolate-chip goodness, ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Still shining after all these years: Room 237 is worthy of a visit

Director Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 (***½) is a delightful documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror epic The Shining. This documentary, however, is not about the making of the movie, but the meaning(s) behind it.The film’s title refers to the most ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Inmates on the outside

lenise@yesweekly.comThey say that you make your best friends in college. But what do they say about making friends in prison?Delving into the delicate psyche of women inmates, playwright Chloe Moss writes about the dynamic inner-prison relationships and ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 15 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Lawrence Joel: War hero

‘… As bullets dug up the dirt around him, he held plasma bottles high while kneeling, completely engrossed in his life saving mission’ Lawrence Joel was born in the slums that surround North Liberty Street in Winston-Salem in 1928, the year before the ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

An honest, affordable lunch at Murphy’s

With the approach of the 100 th anniversary of the unification of Winston and Salem into one big, hyphenated metropolis, I thought it would be fitting to take a walk into the city’s past by having lunch the way downtown denizens have been doing it for ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

When Winston met Salem

Winston-Salem’s consolidation in 1913 may have induced vital economic stability, but its minor consequences are more indicative of the time period.“The people in Salem had to quit letting their hogs run loose,” said Fam Brownlee, a North Carolina historian ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Danny Brown, as nasty as he wants to be

If Danny Brown is the poster boy for weirdo, internet-born, hip-hop parvenus, the scene that proliferated around his all-in, whiplashinducing performance at Greene Street Club Friday night was astonishingly familiar. Brown was barely midway through the ... [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]

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Winston-Salem council votes to sell coliseum an... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes finds his muse in th... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
Justin Poe provides perilous view of shelter [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
Haunts of the very rich: Leonardo Dicaprio is T... [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
Grandma’s Greatest Cookie Contest [Published Yes Weekly - May 22 2013]
Still shining after all these years: Room 237 i... [Published Yes Weekly - May 15 2013]
Inmates on the outside [Published Yes Weekly - May 15 2013]
Greensboro tree ordinance beginning to bud [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
The first skyscraper in the Southeast [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
When Winston met Salem [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
Lawrence Joel: War hero [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
Danny Brown, as nasty as he wants to be [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
An honest, affordable lunch at Murphy’s [Published Yes Weekly - May 09 2013]
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