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local talent
Few professors are as involved in the broader community as Spoma Jovanovic, associate professor of communication studies at UNCG.

GET inside
Prisoners at the jail in Greensboro take turns using the recreation room — a few game tables and a sparse collection of exercise equipment — a maximum of two or three times a week, and some prisoners are only allowed out of their cells an hour a day into a tiny Spartan room that allows for phone calls and a larger area to pace.

be there
The Carolina Theatre; 310 S. Greene St., Greensboro; 336.333.2605; www. carolinatheatre.com; 7:30 p.m.; $6 Before traveling to the “Labyrinth” with David Bowie, Muppets creator Jim Henson directed this surreal fantasy epic with an all-puppet cast of characters.

ten best
Filthmonger Bubba the Love Sponge, whose morning radio show leans toward subjects from porn to professional wrestling, found his first controversy in 1988, when he used sexually explicit language with a 13-year-old female caller. He hit the big time in 2001, when he faced animal cruelty charges in St.

busted
The best and worst of Triad police blotters, as compiled by Jordan Green.

Sustainability resource center plans to weatherize 200+ homes in Winston-Salem
Sandra Lawson and her 76-year-old mother gave up their trailer in West Virginia about six years ago when they decided to move down to Winston-Salem to be closer to Doris’ other children. The house on Leo Street was the seventh their realtor showed them.

scuttlebutt
Wilkins is running against fellow Republicans Hank Henning and Jeremy Williams, but he wasn’t the only candidate to file before the final deadline at 5 p.m. Democrats Dan Miller of Greensboro and Linda Kellerman of High Point also filed the same day for District 6, bringing the number of candidates from two on Thursday up to five.

bidness
The commission noted that when unemployment numbers are seasonally adjusted, the trade, transportation and utilities sector, along with professional and business services and manufacturing, saw slight gains, while leisure and hospitality and construction have taken hits.

white noise
Now, apparently the problem is just the opposite. The News & Record and Winston- Salem Journal are two of the dozens of daily newspapers across the country that are not running this week’s “Doonesbury,” which lampoons a new Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion.

Republicans square off in primary for new NC House District 27
In a district where the voting population leans to the right, the Republican primary for NC Senate District 27 representing rural Guilford County is expected to determine the winner of the general election. As a new district created last year, the lack of an incumbent helped push four candidates to announce their bids for office.

The new jail is on time and under budget, but was it worth it?
It`s no accident that visitors and residents alike confuse the new Guilford County Detention Center for a benign commercial development downtown — my roommate asked if I had seen the new apartment complex on Edgeworth Street and Sheriff BJ Barnes said it was specifically designed to look more like a hospital.

Repeal of gun law is fatal mistake
Recently, two different moms in two different parts of the country confronted the state of American politics head on. Speaking to a group at Southern Methodist University, former First Lady Barbara Bush commented on how nasty politics has become, saying, “I hate that people think ‘compromise’ is a dirty word.

Vulture capitalism
Give me a break. “Greed” means you want more for yourself. Fine. If you obtain it legally, without force or privilege — say, by buying a business and making it more efficient, or shifting resources to where consumers prefer them — that is a good thing. “Creative destruction” makes America richer.

Obama’s covert plan to raise gas prices
President Barack Obama’s energy plan involves radically increasing gas prices to the European rate of about $10 a gallon. And he’s well on his way, as gas prices have more than doubled since he took office in January 2009, when gasoline was only $1.79 per gallon.

A tale of two cities
Scoops don’t matter, of course, except to in the little corner of the information landscape occupied by the actual media. Still, we took some satisfaction as we unleashed the story to the world right around quitting time on Friday, surely causing someone in the newsroom at the Greensboro News & Record to utter the F word.

Rhino Times distorts facts in drug story
The article claims that the Greensboro Police Dept. knew that a package containing 30 pounds of marijuana was mailed to the Beloved Community Center, and that somehow it was still delivered. Yet there is absolutely no evidence that anything remotely close to this scenario actually occurred, and even Chief Ken Miller doesn’t believe it did.

letters to the editor
The campaign will benefit local programs and services for people living with multiple sclerosis and MS research. Every hour of everyday, someone is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable often disability disease of the control nervous system.

A higher state of mind
Fifteen, 10, maybe even five years ago, if an aspiring hiphop artist had revealed that he grew up going to opera camp or spent a summer on Broadway, it would all be over before it started. Credibility shot. You just didn’t go from playing Young Simba to being a young stunna.

extended play
It’s not too late for all the Plastic Paddy’s out there to hit up Urban Outfitters for green T-shirts with thinly-veiled Irish stereotypes that they’ll wear once, then use to clean up a bottle of spilled Mickey’s from the night before.

( local & live )
Pierce, The Raving Knaves, Matty Sheets and the Blockheads, Kelly and the Cowboys, Surry Mountain Friends McPhersons’s Bar and Grill (G):.

True shred guitar
It’s easy to forget that, despite the immense and ever-growing official catalog that Jimi Hendrix left behind, his entire professional career happened in the short span of seven years. Some people spend as much time in undergrad as Hendrix did laying waste to the walls between rock, jazz, country and the blues.

triad dj profile
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taking a listen
The Malamondos will support Southern Culture On the Skids at the Blind Tiger this Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day..

ryan’s forecast
Erika M. Andersen’s colossal stage presence isn’t predicated so much on her six-foot frame and stark blonde hair so much as it is the way she wields emotional tension the way her infamous Viking ancestor Eric Bloodaxe swung his namesake arms. On her solo debut album Past Life Martyred Saints, she spares no quarter.

( 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.

dj
Summit Station Eatery, The (G):.

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

John Carter is lost in space, Hill and Tatum score on Jump Street
Joined by the beautiful princess Dejah Thoris (the beautiful Lynn Collins), our brawny hero embarks on an otherworldly adventure that begins with some semblance of promise before collapsing under its own weight. By the time the film’s “big” climax rolls around, much of whatever interest the story possessed has long since dissipated.

video vault
Topping the list is James Stewart as attorney Paul Biegler. The actor’s familiar, easygoing persona is certainly on display, but Biegler’s no pushover; he’s relentless, manipulative and ruthless — and he needs to be, if he’s to successfully defend young Lt.

( triad movie times )
6:00, 8:30, 10:30; Sun: 1:00, 3:30, 6:00; Mon: 5:30, 8:00; Tue: 5:30 PM Wed: 3:00, 5:30, 8:00; Thu: 5:30, 8:00 Friends with Kids-.

found objects
Khalisa Williams hosts a weekly female spoken word/performing arts empowerment group every Monday at 5:30 p.m. at Tate Street Coffee in Greensboro On March 21, UNCG associate history professor Lisa Tolbert gives the “Art for Lunch Gallery Talk” at the Weatherspoon at noon.

Aunt Jemima deconstructed
“Aunt Jemima represents hell and purgatory,” Fulton Ross explained in an interview. “She gets me through hell. She can’t reach paradise. She’s a figure of the imagination of the white illustrator. She never really existed. To most black women, she is a disparaging figure and has been for a hundred years.

Free documentary screenings tackle important social issues
Although there have been constant updates in the media recently that the US economy is on the rebound, a lot of people aren’t so sure — having been stung financially in the past. With so many confronting their own economic situations — good, bad or otherwise, especially during tax season — the issue of money is foremost on many people’s minds.

( art )
March 23 through May 4. Onward: The Creative Legacy of David Newton. Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Library. Guilford College Campus. 5800 W Friendly Ave., Greensboro..

playbill
Piedmont Opera presents Robert Ward’s The Crucible Wednesday (student night), Friday, Sunday and Tuesday at the Stevens Center. Friday’s performance includes an opening-night gala. For a conversation with the dapper 94-year-old composer, visit the Stevens Center on Saturday.

Die Capital! When lions reclaim the parade
Between the Marshall cabinet stacks, drums, guitars and earplugs — The minimal set used six large, black square boxes, which morphed handed out early with the playbill (thank you) — you can’t hear a damn from a bathroom stall to a kitchen table.

( stage )
March 16 through 18. Fri-7:30pm, Sat-2:05pm, 4:30pm, Sun-2:05pm. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Odell Auditorium, Huggins Performance Center. Greensboro College Campus. 815 W Market St., Greensboro..

Spanish lessons in downtown Winston-Salem
I took an oath not too long ago only to frequent bodega-style taquerías, citing authenticity, price point and gastronomic thrills as my reasons. But as someone who writes about restaurants every week, I recognize this is an impossible oath to keep. Buena Pinta is nothing like the roadside groceries where I’ve been getting my tacos lately.

served
On Friday, Noble’s Grill in Winston-Salem holds a Robert Mondavi wine dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. Call 336.777.8477 for a reservation. Over in Greensboro, Undercurrent holds a Patz & Hall wine dinner at the same time. Reserve a table at 336.370.1266..

the photo album
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calendar
pop artist’s four-minute, silent film portraits with music composed by Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips. For more info and tickets, call 336.725.1904 or visit www.secca.org.

salome’s stars
A patch of roiling water in the workplace could be threatening, but stay the course and you’ll soon be clear of it. Then go out and have a great time with loved ones. BORN THIS WEEK: Your extraordinary leadership qualities mark you as someone people can turn to for guidance in difficult situations.

the advice goddess
with me. My wife Advice Goddess of 19 years and I shared equally in raising our three children. She only sort of “works” now, but I do the home chores and all the cooking — while running a very stressful business that keeps her shopping habit afloat.

news of the weird
The royal family of Qatar, apparently striving for art-world credibility, purchased a Paul Cezanne painting (“The Card Players”) last year for the equivalent of about $250 million, which is twice as much as the previous most-expensive painting sold for.

sports trivia
1. Which hitter holds two of the top three spots for most strikeouts in a major-league season? 2. Name the player who had the most hits in a modern-era season for the Braves franchise. 3. Who was the head coach of the University of Texas football team before Mack Brown took the job in 1998? 4.

Don’t get carried away... yet
has 24 races to make “Huge momentum,” Hamlin said. “We’ve the Chase. never been in this position this early in the As if to prove the lunacy of drawing early season. We’ve always struggled. We’ve always conclusions, Johnson came back to finish second taken our time — five or six races in — before in the season’s second race.

What a Rush
The student health plan at Georgetown, incidentally, is about $1,900 per semester — more than $5,500 for a student and a spouse together, which makes absolutely no sense to me, but little in our nation’s healthcare system does. The $1,900 is in addition to the $23,000 and change that Georgetown charges for a semester of law school.