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The Cranford sisters — Katei, 27, and Kelly, 25 — have spent their lives in Greensboro and have seen the city change dramatically. The sisters are quick to compliment each other, with Kelly explaining Katei’s “encyclopedic knowledge” of the city and Katei referring to her younger sister as a “pizzamaker extraordinaire” at Mama Ginna’s in Summerfield.

GET inside
People born on Feb. 29 are known as “leaplings” or, less poetically, “Leap Year babies,” and in societies where rights and privileges are granted according to age, they are problematic. A leapling going by the letter of the law would not be able to vote until he had been on the planet for 72 years.

bethere
Celebrate the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix with the concert event of the year featuring Billy Cox of the Band Of Gypsys and Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dweezil Zappa, Brad Whitford of...

tenbest
Ten best ways to spend the extra Leap Year day.

busted
The best and worst of Triad police blotters, as compiled by Eric Ginsburg.

Residents make noise about proposed ordinance
Greensboro City Council won’t vote on proposed changes to the city’s noise ordinance until March 6, but residents are already fired up. City staff is in the process of rewriting the proposal that went before council on Feb. 7, which included harsher punishments, a lower decibel threshold and new measurement requirements.

bidness
Federico said Zoom! will move its manufacturing facility from Kernersville to Winston- Salem, where newly acquired Screen Scene has a 12,000 square-foot facility housing three automatic presses, three hand presses and nine heads of embroidering.

scuttlebutt
Earl Jones, ousted as representative of NC House District 60 in the Democratic primary two years ago, is seeking a rematch with the seat’s current occupant, Rep. Marcus Brandon. Jones had represented the district, which harnesses predominantly African-American areas of High Point and Greensboro through rural corridor of Guilford County, since 2003.

Judge suggests mediation for creditor and staffing companies
That the executive who owns the company allegedly in control of the staffing companies’ assets is in federal custody awaiting sentencing on 63 counts of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and failing to pay payroll taxes is but one of the case’s complications.

Muslim parents and Guilford schools join forces against bullying
Karen Mujali sat at a table apart from her three children, who crowded into a booth at Nazareth Bread Co. Bakery and Restaurant with the children of the restaurant and bakery’s owner on a recent Friday night. One of the older girls had a laptop open and others worked on homework.

white noise
NC Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin’s comparison of Laura Leslie and Mark Binker to Woodward and Bernstein may be a little over the top, but other appellations in the comment thread of Leslie’s Facebook announcement that Binker is joining WRAL-TV as multimedia investigative reporter were not.

Leap Year by the numbers
We say that a calendar year is 365 days, and it is, more or less. But it takes just a little bit longer for the Earth to make its lap around the sun, about 6 hours, making a full year 365.24219 days. So we add a day every four years, a process known as intercalation.

Rich Brenner, my hero
Following a stint as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Rich’s career path took him to TV stations in Lynchburg, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; Raleigh, Chicago and High Point.

Politicians fiddle while fiscal crisis looms
Yet if you add eight zeroes, that’s America’s budget. The president says again that he will cut spending — but don’t be fooled. He wants to spend more on some items, those he euphemistically calls “invest[ment] in the things that will help grow our economy.

For whom would America’s Founders vote for president?
When New York churches no longer can meet in public school settings; a federal court orders a Rhode Island public school to remove a prayer banner that has been posted for more than five decades (and it complies); the federal government mandates...

editorial
It wasn’t so long ago that some of the Triad’s key industries and stable, working-class jobs required little formal education, but as the area struggles to recover from the absence of former industrial titans, people are quickly discovering a...

Sustainability will take a long time
Yes, Piedmont Triad Sustainable Communities Planning Project — it’s an unwieldy name, and it’s so difficult for me to commit it to memory that I typically have to do a Google search or two to recall it. Unwieldy or not, the project is your federal tax dollars at work.

letters to the editor
Hey Brian, Here’s to guest columnist John Doe. [“YES! Weekly discriminates against ‘Triad Today’”; Feb. 22, 2012] I’m glad he turned his penetrating insight away from the club ads and toward the rest of YES! Weekly. I would like to shake his hand. (After he has washed it, of course.

Familiarity breeds content
“Once Philip joined, we recorded with Caitlin Cary,” Caleb said in reference to their collaboration “I Don’t Think Heaven Would Take Us (If It Couldn’t Have Us Both).” “We did ’12 Dead Roses’ and some other pretty country-tinged stuff,” added bassist Kyle Caudle.

extended play
The Live Original Local showcase at the Garage on Friday is going to be pret-tay, pretty good with the Bronzed Chorus, Jews & Catholics and the Brand New Life all participating. Ramseur antifolkster Paleface is holding an art show at Dye Pretty in Winston-Salem, and Scott Ainslie is playing blues at the Community Arts Café.

There’s more than one way to experience Hendrix
How many guitarists does it take to pay tribute to possibly the greatest one of all time? How many would you like? We may never know the depths of Jimi Hendrix’s generation-defining talents, but the dozen legendary players who will appear at the tour’s Greensboro stop will offer a cornucopia of interpretations.

( local & live )
Tragedy, The Last of our Kind, Get Rude, Unicron (ex Knives Exchanging Hands) “Ham’s (K)“:.

ryan’s forecast
Tammie Davis will be the first to tell you that she’s tough on the outside, but soft as butter on the inside. That fact quickly becomes apparent the moment she summons the honeyed tone that earned her the award for Female Country Artist of the Year at the 2011 Carolina Music Awards.

taking a listen
Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder Justin Robinson’s outright split last year from the Grammy-winning string band might have been surprising on some level, but it’s hard to blame for going out on top.

( concerts )
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( 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
Personal playlist: My own tunes. Favorite albums: DJ Dara — From Here to There, DJ Spooky — Under the Influence, Deftones — White Pony My gear: Two Stanton 3.24 CDJs, Behringer VMX 300, Old English 800 Website: soundcloud.com/mr-bailey336..

In the woods with Paul and Jennifer, Oscar-Winning A Separation opens
By sheer happenstance — so common in movies like these — George and Linda stumble upon a bucolic country commune overseen by Carvin (Alan Alda, avuncular as always, if a bit more grizzled than usual) and essentially run by Seth (Justin Theroux, Aniston’s offscreen beau), a supremely self-confident guru who’s too hip to be true.

video vault
Columbia Pictures decided at the last minute to bypass a general release (even after screenings had been held in many cities — including Greensboro) and unveil the film on a limited basis. Bad move, as the film flopped. It’s no masterpiece — and it’s not Shakespeare in Love (1998) either, but Anonymous deserved better.

first friday calendar
Showcasing the “Pastel Society of North Carolina Winter Exhibition”. Featuring more than seventy exceptional pastel paintings by North Carolina artists.Enjoy refreshments and live music..

Gallery brings together art and design — and artists
He apologized to guests and asked a friend to set them up with mimosas — champagne and their choice of orange or grapefruit juices. Grey Pascal, who described himself as an “obsessivecompulsive sculptor,” was in town from Wilmington for the reception. Pascal also writes short stories and philosophical treatises, and shoots photography.

Classic comedy courtesy Shakespeare, auditions for The Miracle Worker
Among the roles be cast are: a doctor (any age adult), Helen’s mother Kate Keller (age 20s-30s), Helen’s father Capt.

( art )
dance performance slipped slip, which takes an artwork from the galleries to its natural end on the grounds of SECCA. For more info, visit www.secca.org.

playbill
For a bit of raunchy, mature humor this week, check out Theater Alliance’s production of Avenue Q, the Broadway musical that features both puppets and flesh to tell the story of a recent Princeton grad who moves into a shabby New York apartment. The play continues Thursday through Sunday, with special added performances March 8, 9, 10.

Avenue Q — where puppets make us face the truth
Barney, Sesame Street, the Teletubbies, the Wiggles — all have long been teaching children valuable lessons such as how to share, count or make friends.

served
Meanwhile there’s news of a new eatery in downtown Winston-Salem. Spring House Restaurant, Kitchen & Bar, which will be helmed by Chef Tim Grandetti, will open in March in a restored 1920s mansion on 5th Street.

Where hot dogs become haute dogs
Billed as a “gastro pub” — which is somewhat misleading, since the menu centers around hot dogs, fancified and dressed up though they may be — the Red Onion lives in what used to be the Center City Café, Bar Fry before that, the Next Door Tavern before that… I could go on all day.

calendar
March 1. 6:30pm. How to Have Your Own Carolina Yard Education Class. Frank Sharpe Jr. Wildlife Education Center, Bur-Mil Park. 5834 Bur-Mil Club Rd., Greensboro..

the photo album
see more at facebook.com/yesweekly.

salome’s stars
Expect to happily plunge right into a hectic social whirl starting at week’s end. Your aspects favor new friendships as well as the strengthening of old relationships. BORN THIS WEEK: Like St. Patrick (who was also born this week), your spiritual strength is an inspiration to others.

the advice goddess
never gone out to Advice Goddess dinner someplace I can wear a dress and heels, and he never brings me flowers or does anything for our anniversary or Valentine’s Day. I’ve suggested he pick out lingerie he’d like to see me in and shown him how to set a romantic mood in our apartment.

news of the weird
Part-time Devon, England vicar Gavin Tyte, who serves churches in Uplyme and Axmouth, recently produced a rap video of the Nativity, in which he plays a shepherd, an angel and the narrator.

The best for first
Winning it isn’t even a significant factor in determining the Sprint Cup champion. More than any other major sporting event, it stands alone, comparable more to the premier events of golf and tennis than team sports such as football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer.

The grateful and the dead
They came from all over the country to send her off — hundreds of them, gathered in the Oriental Shrine Club on High Point Road, where the line at he buffet stretched past the fireplace and the mourners’ cars settled into the mud at the back of the parking lot.