GET inside
There are concerns about financial compensation and stability — their last home game, scheduled for Jan. 29 at UNCG’s Fleming Gym against the Greenville Trojans, fell victim to lastminute cancellation..

local talent
Malecia Bynum didn’t major in anything related to music production and she graduated from NC A&T University less than two years ago, but she already has 50 copyrighted pieces of original work. As a songwriter and producer, Bynum records a range of musical genres from her own home studio.

bethere
Heather Gordon, a Durham artist is recognized statewide and on a national level. She has exhibited at SECCA, the Weatherspoon, the Cameron Art museum and the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she was awarded an Honorable Mention by juror Nat Trotman, associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum of Art.

tenbest
After my fear of sleepovers ended I promptly went to overnight camp for a month, returning four summers in a row to the now-defunct OMNI Camp in Maine. It met the two major requirements I was looking for — that it be co-ed and not sports-based.

busted
A suspect walked into Hancock Fabric on High Point Road in Greensboro with a gun and demanded money around 8 p.m. on Feb. 6. The suspect, who wore a bright orange toboggan over his face and was estimated to be around 18 years old, fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.

Forsyth reval expected to cut into county budget
County Manager Dudley Watts told the seven members of the county commission during a work session last week that they should start preparing now for the impact of the 2014 revaluation and consider phasing in service cuts, a tax increase or a combination of the two.

scuttlebutt
Perhaps the most surprising development was who announced he would not run. Skip Alston, the Democratic chairman of the Guilford County Commission, said he will not seek reelection, leaving his minority-majority district in south and east Greensboro open to new representation.

bidness
Solstas Lab Partners, a medical and diagnostic laboratory company coheadquartered in High Point, announced that it has chosen the Triad city for an expansion that will add 500 jobs, in what economic development officials call “the largest job-creation project in the city in more than 13 years.

Performing arts center task force deals with transparency, short timeline
The clock is ticking on a proposal for a new downtown Greensboro performing arts center, which many city council members and other advocates say needs to be approved in mid-June so it can appear on the ballot as a bond referendum vote in the fall.

white noise
Kudos to bloggers Ed Cone and Roch Smith News and views from inside the media bubble for fact-checking the claim. As it turned out, the source was the poll was conducted by right-leaning Civitas rather than the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, and the poll was conducted in Charlotte rather than Greensboro.

COME ENJOY A SESSION
Keli Lineberry pours a fresh draft at the newly opened Sessions on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro. Sessions is billed as the Triad’s newest headiest, craftiest Coffee, Espresso, Beer and Wine Hall featuring 21, ever-changing, craft beers on tap, coffee and desserts.

A dream Deferred
Tonight the dream lives in the auxiliary basketball court at Winston-Salem State University, a perfectly serviceable expanse of seasoned hardwood, with rudimentary bleachers and old-school fiberglass backboards — not up to par for the WSSU Rams...

K-9 abuser, judges should be kicked
In January 2009, a Rochester, Mass. K-9 officer was charged with animal cruelty after his dog Nitro was found dead of starvation while the officer was away on vacation. Nitro was a Belgian Malinois whose normal weight was 65 pounds. When authorities discovered Nitro’s corpse, the dog weighed 25 pounds.

Why I chose Newt over Santorum
In 2008, when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Go to bit.ly/zEIaPw to hear how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.

Government can’t make us happy
Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of individual freedom. Only then did they start thinking that happiness might be possible on earth..

'Green shoots,' creative destruction
I have never had the pleasure of meeting Keith G. Debbage, professor of urban geography at UNCG, but I greatly respect anyone who thinks deeply about the intersection of economy and public policy and marshals intellect to “foster positive growth in the local economy.

Primary concerns
It is a foregone conclusion that North Carolina is in play for the 2012 General election, and the Democrats augmented that reality by choosing to hold their national convention in Charlotte this year, from Sept. 3-6, well before the election scheduled for Nov.

extended play
Any hip-hop fans still sleeping on Beau Young Prince can get a wake-up call tonight at the Clubhouse. CJ Chenier & his Red Hot Louisiana Band lost out to a much-deserving Rebirth Brass Band for the Regional Roots Grammy, but they’ll cook up a swampy groove with the Tim Betts Band at the Blind Tiger.

Get to know this guy A$AP
By about 12:10 a.m. early Saturday morning at Greene Street Club, the scene on stage had essentially crumbled.

Paying respect to the Queen of Soul
It’s the little touches that she lends songs that give them personality beyond what he voice or the band can provide. She offered one of her biggest hits early on, “(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman,” shimmying to its sensual chorus as best as her 69-year-old body would allow her.

Local & Live
Sinners For Saints, White Knuckle Blackout, Mad Loco Motives, The Bleeding Tw*ts Thirsty’s 2 (G):.

dj
Brewski’s Tavern (G):DJ Clubhouse (G):.

karaoke
Cooper’s Ale House (G), Corner Pocket Billards (M), Gatsby’s Pub (W-S), Green’s Supper Club (G), Grey’s Tavern (G), Ham’s (G, K, HP), JP Looney’s, (HP), Karondas Sports Bar & Grill (G), Liberty Steakhouse (HP), McGee Street Boiler Room (G), Sidelines Sports Grill (HP), Soups Pho & Grill (W-S), Tee Time SportsHP & Karaoke (W-S).

( concerts )
Check out the Calendar on our website, yesweekly.com.

( 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.

triad dj profile
Everything But The Girl — Amplified Heart. Reversal of Man — This Is Medicine (always) Crucial Unit — The 7ins. Tim McGraw — Greatest Hits. The latest Rist and Haruka Nakamura albums. New Minority Unit. Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood. New, not yet released Stranger Day album.

ryan’s forecast
I had a great interview with New Edition lead vocalist Ralph Tresvant that was all set to run this week, that is until the unfortunate death of Whitney Houston dumped a bucket of ice water on its cheery subtext. It’s kind of hard to care about the mood of the band just before the first performance of their 30th anniversary tour in Louisville, Ky.

taking a listen
Let this be a lesson: Early incarnations of band bios are about as trustworthy as election year rhetoric. Searching for the early- to mid-’90s alt-rock and post-rock influences that the Quiet Brace assert are present on their self-titled debut EP is about as fruitful as the search for water on Mars.

calendar
First and Third Tuesdays. 7:30 pm. Songwriters Open Mic Night. The Underground Theatre in the lower level of the Community Arts Café, 411 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem..

Spooky doings in The Woman in Black, head games played in A Dangerous Method
Appropriately drenched in Gothic atmosphere — courtesy cinematographer Tim Maurice-Jones, production designer Kave Quinn and art director Paul Ghirardani — the story follows young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) as he travels to a sleepy English village to probate a will.

video vault
War-torn Africa is the setting for this grim, ghoulish outing in which the living dead have overrun the continent.

( film )
February 28. 7:30pm. Miss Representation Film Viewing and Discussion. Hanes Auditorium, Salem Fine Arts Center. 601 S Church St., Winston-Salem..

( triad movie times )
5:30, 6:35, 7:20, 8, 9:20, 9:55, 10:30. Fri and Sat 12:10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4:45, 5:50, 7, 7:40, 9, 10, 10:30, 11:55. Sun to Wed 12:10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4:45, 5:50, 7, 7:40, 9, 10, 10:30. The Secret World of Arrietty (Kari-gurashi no Arietti) The Artist(PG13)-.

At Reynolds art sale, the finds are personal
Her sights had been set on a framed Ansel Adams photography poster, but hadn’t moved fast enough. She watched a man from Clemmons admire it, and later confirmed he had taken it. But this! Here was something tangibly connected with her family’s past.

found objects
Comics ain’t a boy’s club anymore, and where better to make the point than Bennett College, one of two historically black colleges for women in the nation? Comic artists Ming Doyle (Fantastic Four #600), Janet Lee (Return of the Dapper Men) and...

Actor Rob Freeman discusses life among The Dead
Murphy, an American Air Force engineer stationed in Africa, is literally at Ground Zero for a sudden, unexplained outbreak of a virulent plague that causes the dead to rise and feed on the living. Panic has quickly set in, as the entire continent (and perhaps the entire world) is overrun by an unstoppable army of zombies.

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( art )
February 23 through May 1. Abraham Lincoln: Self- Made in America Exhibition. Horton Museum Center. Old Salem Museums & Gardens. 600 S Main St., Winston-Salem..

( stage )
February 17 through March 4. Varying dates and times. Avenue Q. Theatre Alliance Playhouse. 1047 Northwest Blvd., Winston-Salem..

drama
www.TheDramaCenter.com.

playbill
If you plan on celebrating a belated Valentine’s Day this weekend — or if you plan on groveling for forgiveness for forgetting the big day — then treat your sweetie to a classic and romantic night of theater. It’s fun; it’s different; it’s the perfect apology.

Clams vs. oysters in Winston-Salem
Pound for pound, Winston-Salem is the best food city in the Triad. That’s just an opinion, of course, but one informed by a decade of discriminatory eating in the area.

served
On Saturday, the Winston-Salem Fresh Market holds a cooking demo from 1 to 4 p.m. featuring butternut squash, apple, pancetta and sage tortellini and shrimp Veracruz. Crisis Control Ministries holds a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Kids Clubhouse in Kernersville.

the photo album
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salome’s stars
Taking definitive stands isn’t easy for the often-wavering Moon Child. But you not only need to stay with your decision, but also reassure others it was the right thing to do. BORN THIS WEEK: You have a gift for bringing people together. You would make a fine judge or counselor.

the advice goddess
on Dec. 20, and we’re now building a life Advice Goddess together. The problem is I have a high IQ (137), and he’s very unintelligent and illogical. It’s hard to have a good conversation unless we talk about sex. It’s too late to leave now, so ...

news of the weird
Swiss health officials have authorized construction of an assistedliving “village” of 1950s-style homes and gardens designed to “remind” patients with Alzheimer’s and similar afflictions of surroundings that they might actually recall and with which they might be more comfortable and secure than they are with modern life.

Changes for better
Needless to say, changes were in order during the offseason. Team owner Chip Ganassi overhauled the entire team in the wake of disappointing seasons by both McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya. “Well, Chip has made a really big commitment,” McMurray said. “I mean, they changed a lot of management.

Remembering the Ship of Fools
I’ve recently become reacquainted with these early works courtesy of a heads-up by an old friend, former running partner and Loyola philosophy professor John Howard, who alerted me to the LOUISiana Digital Library, an online archive where my old columns live on in perpetuity.