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local talent
After spending a year traveling through 20 different countries, Shaina Machlus wanted to be part of a strong community and to be a positive influence. Though she hadn’t considered cutting hair professionally, it was something she enjoyed since middle school, bartering haircuts through college and styling hair throughout her trip.

GETinside
Motsinger, a progressive Democrat, went on to say there was no way she could follow the rulebook for how to run a campaign for Congress and expect to defeat US Rep. Virginia Foxx for the 5th District seat in November..

be there
The project has since grown from a chance side-project, formed in 2003, into what is now widely considered to be one of New Orleans’ most prestigious modern funk ensembles. An offspring with a direct lineage to their fathers in the Meters and the Neville Brothers, Dumpstaphunk is a recipe for creating a new standard for an entire genre.

10 best things about the NC gubernatorial election
Triad — McCrory is from Jamestown — is a real candidate, a professional politician with access to the kind of money it takes to win the seat. On Monday Joines said he wouldn’t be running, but remember the old adage: Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

busted
A man discovered human remains while walking in the woods near Winston Lake on Jan. 25. Winston-Salem police followed up and located two human skulls and other items that suggested “a ceremonial event.

City exploring options for a performing arts center
Though the auditorium will continue to be used until events can no longer be booked or until it is unsafe or unsanitary, Coliseum Director Matt Brown and others agree it’s time to build a new performing arts center from scratch. Yet the two primary questions remain: How much will it cost, and where should it be located?.

scuttlebutt
The commission adopted a policy last year to ban video presentations during the speakers from the floor portion of its meeting and is considering an additional policy to created an agenda review committee headed by the board chair to preview and approve video presentations during agenda items.

bidness
Goodwill Industries of Northwest NC is encouraging residents who earn less than $49,078 to find out if they qualify for the earned income tax credit. Those who are eligible may receive up to $5,751 in tax credits from the Internal Revenue Service. The agency invites taxpayers to visit three locations to determine if they are eligible.

Downtown Winston-Salem contends with growing pains
It’s the kind of problem Mayor Allen Joines likes to have. He said the drive to revise the ordinance comes out of a recognition that sidewalk dining is a full-on reality and a desire to relieve residents whose sleep is disturbed by the clanking of bottles getting dumped into recycling bins outside restaurants and bars in the middle of the night.

white noise
“Bill’s tough, defiant Greensboro Daily News editorials during the civil rights era earned him a burning cross in his yard and a brick through his front window. He hired very, very good people, including Ed Yoder, Jonathan Yardley, John Alexander and editorial cartoonist Hugh Haynie.

The Challenger
Forsyth County School Board, was suffering from a cold that night and losing her voice. She acknowledged her rasp as she addressed the roughly 30 supporters who gathered inside the Pellet’s home in the Buena Vista section of Winston-Salem.

Perdue is disingenuous to the end
I know it’s bad form to say, “I told you so,” but for years now I’ve written about Gov. Bev Perdue’s abuses of power, called for her resignation and predicted that she would not run for re-election. Now, amidst waning popularity and with Pat McCrory breathing down her neck, Bev finally did the right thing and announced she would not seek another term.

The real State of the Union
Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? During his State of the Union address, he promised “a blueprint for an economy.” But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances.

Proof voters are smarter than media and Washington elite
The MSM are working double-time to get us to forget about the unprecedented results of the South Carolina primary, but they are a sign of what could be in Florida, Nevada and beyond. They are also proof that American citizens will not be outwitted by the political shenanigans of the powers that be.

Recognizing class privilege
As an angry high school student, I argued frequently with my parents about politics, and I was transfixed on money. Sometimes my critiques were broad political arguments about the inherent inequalities of our capitalist economic system and other times they were stingingly personal.

The Trader Joe’s seduction
So essential is access to a decent grocery store to residents’ quality of life that both the current and former representatives of District 2 in northeast Greensboro launched their political careers attempting to court a new tenant after Winn-Dixie pulled out of the Bessemer Shopping Center nearly 15 years ago.

The passion of the Whites
As much as she might have liked the room to believe her, such expectations were more or less foolish. The tragicomic tale of the offspring of D. Ray and Bertie Mae White was appallingly detailed in the 2009 documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,.

extended play
“The Voice” runner-up Dia Frampton.

No wave like home
It’s conventional wisdom that the best sights at a concert belongs to the people who buy the tickets. The closer you are, the better the perspective. It’s just an accepted, seldom argued point. Then there’s the case of Future Islands’ vocalist Samuel T. Herring, and spending a moment in his shoes would shoot holes all through that belief.

( local & live )
Visit yesweekly.com and click on the calendar to list your event weeks ahead of time online..

DJ AUSTIN SCOTT
I’m currently at Arizona Pete’s, and I’ve DJed hundreds of private parties and weddings on the side. I also competed against DJs from all over the world in a DJ competition at Disney World..

taking a listen
Economy of both music and words abound in Mebane duo Be the Moon’s debut release, creating an absorbing, if somewhat uneven blanket of warm, familiar Americana to wrap up in.

ryan’s forecast
Buried amidst Sebastian Bach’s discography of mostly aboveaverage radio metal and aborted prog, there’s one album that very nearly never saw the light of day, but nonetheless stands apart in its own weird way.

( musicians’ exchange )
1965 Blackface Fender Pro Reverb Amp. Fine Condition – sounds great. All original components/transformers except for 1980’s Groove Tubes, and Celestian ‘Vintage 30’ speaker (great speaker). Includes original footswitch. Has that classic Fender blackface sound – and is a rare collectable amp.

( concerts )
Polkadot Cadaver, The Agonist, Nysiis, The Ages Within Ham’s Lakeside (G):.

Acting is tops in Albert Nobbs, Man on a Ledge goes over the edge
(Elizabeth Banks), whose last jumper did just that. But it soon transpires that Nick’s desperate action is merely a diversion, for across the street, Nick’s younger brother Joey (Jamie Bell) and girlfriend Angie (Genesis Rodriguez, in her screen...

video vault
Director Ishiro Honda’s original 1954 version is a somber, tragic treatise on the consequences of atomic power — a subject painfully familiar to Japan, it being less than 10 years since the end of World War II — with the title terror aroused from prehistoric slumber by atomic testing in the Pacific.

( triad movie times )
7, 9:20. Fri and Sat noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20, 11:40. Sun to Wed noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

first friday calendar
Don Green and Lea Lackey-Zachmann. Mr. Green is showing wood sculptures plus paintings on paper inspired by themes from Nature. Ms. Zachmann is showing large oil paintings and digital and Trade streets. images based on microscopic images.

Combat experience spurs student’s artistic and theological journey
The women are cast in a warm glow, vessels of dignity and courage — either ancient or timeless, depending on one’s angle of view. They are flawed beings each in their own way, but blessed protagonists in God’s drama.

Glenn Ford: A Life explores the complicated life of a Hollywood legend
I wrote a column about the visit for the newspaper I then worked for. It was one of my most popular — and, I daresay, one of my best — resulting in a flood of positive e-mails and phone calls from Glenn Ford fans who voiced their appreciation.

( art )
Join the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro as they commemorate 50 years of service and support to the arts at a special downtown celebration, recognizing many who have contributed to the success of the organization and Greensboro’s vibrant arts community.

playbill
Continuing through Saturday, We Are One Artistic Collective.

( stage )
production of August Strindberg’s ground-breaking battle of the sexes, the daughter of a count toys with a servant’s affections, but a simple flirtation turns into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. For more info, call 336.272.7102 (ext 398) or visit www.

( theatre )
Greensboro www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/Parks/programs/cityarts/outreach/Caldcleugh.htm.

Fueling up at the Burger Stop
I´ve got the feeling I’ve been here before, this little restaurant on North Battleground Avenue tucked into the retail space adjacent to the Exxon station — because, of course, I have.

served
Seriously: I got nothing this week except for the opening of the Greensboro Zaxby’s.

calendar
February 4. 5pm. The International Civil Rights Center & Museum Gala and Banquet. Joseph S. Koury Convention Center. Imperial Ballroom. Sheraton Greensboro at Four Seasons. 3121 High Point Rd., Greensboro..

salome’s stars
You might feel that you need to prove how much you can do. But be careful not to take on more than you can handle, or you risk being bogged down. An Aries has a message for you. BORN THIS WEEK: Like your fellow Aquarian Abraham Lincoln, you have a way of handling the most difficult situations with grace and conviction.

classifieds
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the advice goddess
I asked my wife of  five years, who played bass at my church, to join me. She became angry at this suggestion and said I should do my own thing on Christmas and she’d do hers. She then announced that she’d be spending Christmas Eve with her (single, lonely) ex-boyfriend, staying the night at his place and hiking with him on Christmas Day.

news of the weird
Traditional bridge replacement on as prominent a highway as Interstate 15 in Mesquite, Nev. has generally required rerouting traffic for as long as a year, but the new “accelerated” technology in January necessitated detours for less than a week.

The king and his court
CHARLOTTE — Richard Petty is, of course, the King of Stock Car Racing, just as Roy Acuff was considered the King of Country Music and Elvis Presley of rock ‘n’ roll. Petty, who won nearly twice as many races (200) as anyone else in NASCAR history, remains a vibrant part of the Sprint Cup scene today.

The winter of my content
I let it go longer than any other beard I have ever worn, long enough that the spaces at the parentheses on either side of my mouth, the bald patches on my jawline filled in somewhat. My mustache of rusted wheat grew long enough to curl over my upper lip.