APRIL 11-17, 2012

Of course, by the time he made his directorial debut, Needham was already renowned in Hollywood circles as the highest-paid stuntman and most in-demand stunt coordinator/second unit director in the business.

listings

26 local & live
31 musicians’ exchange
32 concerts
35 movie times
46 calendar
49 classifieds

dirt

08 The Department of Health and HUMAN SERVICES, or DHHS, plans to tighten eligibility standards for people who receive Medicaid personal care services.

voices

18 Letters & columns
19 The tradition is special to me because the meditations are typically given by the laity — members and visitors alike — and represent a humble and DEMOCRATIC EXPRESSION of the faith.

arts, entertainment & dining

25 There’s a scene in Xan Aranda’s ILLUMINATIVE DOCUMENTARY Andrew Bird: Fever Year when her subject, the enigmatic songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, locks in on a piece of chocolate almost completely obscured by the wanton clutter on a table in a backstage artist lounge.
37 The ARTIST ZADA emerged from a wide corridor at the back, at the end of which a freshly painted mural radiated between the men’s and women’s bathrooms and around a pair of water fountains.
41 The Greensboro store uses reclaimed barnwood for artistic effect, farm sinks in the PRODUCE SECTION for touches of authenticity and artwork throughout the store provided by Elsewhere Art Collective, the quirky downtown Greensboro group.

43 Deeply rooted and filled with complications, families are like SMALL SOCIETIES that could be observed and discussed in anthropology classes or, even better, perhaps over a few years of therapy sessions.

crashing the gate

54 OVERMAN spent the better part of three decades watching the Yankees Class A affiliate, the Greensboro Bats, develop talent here, learn from their mistakes and push a few players into the bigs.