local talent
Shaunielle Foster, the CEO and Founder of Footsteps to Follow, was crowned Ms. Black North Carolina at the end of last month. Footsteps to Follow, which is based in the Triad area, aims to transform children in a way in which confidence strengthens their souls, lifts their spirits, encourages their inner beauty and promote fun.

GETinside
We love this issue because we find out what kind of people read YES! Weekly. We love it when we see excellence recognized..

BEthere
Come join AIDS Care Service as the finalists from our annual fashion design competition strut their stuff on the runway! This spectacular evening will feature a professional fashion show and Project Runway-style competition. There will also be food, dancing, a silent auction, cash bar and more.

tenbest
It’s good to get downtown in Winston-Salem after work hours. The block of West 4th Street in front of the Stevens Center was blocked off on Friday evening. A band played on the street. My wife and I scored tickets for One Night Stand and headed over to Mellow Mushroom for pizza.

using the term ‘presidential hopeful’ loosely
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke at the annual Conservatives for Guilford County rally downtown Greensboro April 14. “It’s not enough to beat Obama,” Gingrich said. “I am the only person in this race with an actual track record of turning things around in Washington.

busted
Greensboro police arrested 22-year-old Dwan Ahkeem Thompson in March after a foot chase following a crime alert by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office about a residential burglary earlier in the day.

School board to weigh small salary increase
It´s been three years since Guilford County Schools’ employees have received a raise, and Superintendent Mo Green said it is time for that to change. Green proposed a 1 percent salary increase that would cover all school employees — including bus drivers, teachers, counselors, accountants and more — except for him.

bidness
State and local officials announced on Monday that Stanley Furniture will consolidate its headquarters, including a showroom and corporate officers, in High Point. The company received a $335,000 incentives grant from the state of North Carolina in exchange for the move.

scuttlebutt
The Winston-Salem City Council took a pass on a proposed resolution to oppose the marriage amendment on Monday after West Ward Councilman Robert Clark voted against allowing the item on the meeting agenda. City ordinance requires a unanimous vote for council to consider an item that has not been previously approved by a committee.

white noise
The big news in the alternative newsmedia industry is that for just the third time this century — and the seventh time in history — an alt-weekly writer has won a Pulitzer Prize. Eli Sanders of the Seattle Stranger.

Ideological purity tests roil Republican primary contest for Forsyth commission
Often described as a donut, the multi-representative Forsyth County Commission District B circles the urban core of the county, and includes parts of west Winston-Salem, Kernersville, smaller municipalities such as Clemmons and Tobaccoville, and rural unincorporated areas.

Best of the Triad 2012
And this year’s list is full of surprises. So what are you waiting for? Grab ahold of it. Crack it open. Take a deep draught. The Best of the Triad awaits. And if you disagree with the results, drop us a line at editor@yesweekly.com. Or, better yet, remember to vote next year at yesweekly.

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They just don’t understand
The opponents of the noise ordinance certainly feel insulted, and it’s easy to understand why. These club owners, the target of the complaints, have built their own businesses, drawing countless people to downtown. They never asked for or received incentive money from the city, and this is their livelihood.

In the fields, ghettos and prisons
A dozen people clustered around my living room table — eying the matzo ball soup, kugel and charoset — listening to a Cliff Notes version of the Passover story. A few of us were raised Jewish and while we argued about the details, we agreed about the main storyline and presented it to our gentile friends.

letters to the editor
During our study we also visited many alternative programs and spoke with the manager and sometimes with clients. After two years of study we came to consensus on jail and alternatives to incarceration.

extended play
A local filmmaker needs a hand. Sierra Dennis is trying to secure a screening for her music documentary Live! A Greensboro Rockumentary, and she’s short with only three days left. If someone’s birthday is worthy of funding for $1,500, surely so is her film.

The 2012 festival prospectus
Where: Silk Hope (approx. 60-80 minutes) When: April 19-22 Why you should go: Shakori is essentially the gateway to the summer festival season in this region, with the spring event kicking everything off this weekend and its fall event culminating with the final throes of warm weather.

( local & live )
Blackout, The Feral, All Fall Down, Deadset, Mad Loco Motives, Crudify Winestyles (G):.

Laser vision: Ghostland Observatory cut through the fog
In their few years leading up to their aggravated predation by the music press, there was hardly a festival lineup that didn’t have GLO cast in some tantalizing late night slot.

triad dj profile
Favorite technique:.

taking a listen
Show me a holiday that isn’t a poorly disguised cash grab and I’ll show you Iggy Pop with a shirt on. It only makes sense that Pop would the official ambassador of the 4th annual Record Store Day, happening at purveyors of new vinyl everywhere on Saturday.

ryan’s forecast
In the canon of awful albums by great artists, Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles is among some distinguished company. Velvet Underground’s Squeeze was so bad that it was left out of their boxed set Peel Slowly and See, which pretty much gave every other questionable album they made a pass.

( musicians’ exchange )
Drummers! – Quality Audio Equipment for sale – in excellent working condition! Mics: Shure SM57 Snare/ Vocal Mic; Audix Fusion Series Drum Mics – 2 Condenser (F15), 3 Tom-Tom (F12) 1 Low Tom/Kick (F10); D112 Kick Drum Mic with May Internal Mount, Pelican 1500 Storage Case and Cables.

karaoke
Brewski’s Tavern (G), 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.

DJ
Summit Station Eatery, The (G):.

The Cabin in the Woods is well worth visiting
The set-up is familiar to the point of cliché, as five young friends (Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Jesse Williams, Fran Kranz and Chris Hemsworth) — all archetypes of horror-film characters — gather to visit the self-explanatory title enclave for a weekend of revelry.

video vault
It wasn’t the first. It wasn’t the biggest. But this award-winning 1958 docudrama may well be the best depiction of the story of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912 with more than 1,500 lives lost.

( triad movie times )
1:35, 2:10, 3:35, 4:05, 4:40, 5:15, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 8:20, 9:45. Fri and Sat 1, 1:45, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:15. Sun to Tue 1, 1:45, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45. Wed 1, 1:45, 2:30, 4, 5, 7:15, 8:15. John Carter.

( film )
April 22. 3pm. Creative Center Sing-A-Long Series presents: The Sound of Music. The Creative Center. 900 Sixteenth St., Greensboro..

found objects
Art is never more exciting than when it’s out in the streets and woven into the fabric of the community. Exhibit 1 this week for art as a function of urban design is the Miamibased street art collective Primary Flight’s arrival in Greensboro on Wednesday to create a mural for the Spring Garden underpass section of the Downtown Greenway.

Goofing on Elvis — Greensboro, 1972
Kevin Kern, director of public relations for Elvis Presley’s Graceland, is standing in the hallway of YES! Weekly’s Greensboro office at 9:30 a.m. with Archives Manager Danielle Forbes at his side. She’s pulling a wheeled luggage case behind her. It’s not exactly the Memphis Mafia, but a tour all the same.

The Eye of the Storm brings Fred Schepisi to RiverRun Film Festival
It’s been too long — six years, to be precise — since filmmaker Fred Schepisi’s last project, and he’s not arguing. “Absolutely,” he said, “I agree with that!” He’s hardly been inactive during that time, but it was the screen version of Patrick White’s 1973 novel The Eye of the Storm.

( art )
April 21. 1-3pm. Celebrate 3 Years with Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet. Royal Expressions. 1220-E Battleground Ave., Greensboro..

drama
When the Clemmons Community Theatre production of The Drunkard and Steve Bissette as the Preacher, Bartender”and Salvation Army opens, audience members will be booing and hissing the dastardly vil- Leader.

playbill
This week, UNCG Theatre puts a contemporary spin on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter with its presentation of In the Blood, performing now through Sunday at Brown Building Theatre. Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, the adaptation features a homeless African-American woman with five children.

( stage )
April 27. 7:30pm. iWrite.iShow. presents: Cindy Argiento. American Express Auditorium. Greensboro International Civil Rights Center & Museum. 134 S Elm St., Greensboro..

served
Greensboro’s got Tavo, which opened last week in the Kress Building downtown, serving American and Southern cuisine. And Savory Spice Shop has opened at the Shops at Friendly Center, with “more than 400 fresh herbs and spices, 140 unique seasoning blends, organics, extracts, sauces and more,” according to a press release.

Sweet-potato dumplings to die for
It´s not hard to find good food in Greensboro, but it is a relatively rare occasion when I stumble across great food, something that really stands out and merits regular return visits. I take some pride in finding such hidden treasures myself rather than being alerted by a friend, and seize the opportunity to spread the word.

THE photo album
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calendar
The program will feature Moravian music, the “Missa Brevis in C Major” by Mozart and music from the 1940s in honor of dedicated musicians, Mr. and Mrs. William Mathias. For more info, visit www.salem.edu/culturalevents.

salome’s stars
Temper your typical Aries urge to charge into a situation and demand answers. Instead, let the Lamb’s gentler self emerge to deal with a problem that requires delicacy. BORN THIS WEEK: You can warm the coldest heart with your lyrical voice and bright smile.

the advice goddess
and have fun. We Advice Goddess were going out several times a week, sleeping together at least once a week. Suddenly, he freaked, worrying I’d get attached. I reinforced that I absolutely don’t want anything serious, but he seemed unconvinced. He went away on business and called the day he returned, and we hung out and slept together.

news of the weird
• In assigning a bail of only $20,000, the judge in Ellisville, Miss. seemed torn about whether to believe that Harold Hadley is a terrorist — that is, did Hadley plant a bomb at Jones County Junior College? In February, investigators told WDAM-TV...

sports trivia
1. Who was the first major-league player from the Dominican Republic? 2. What major-league player had the most at-bats as a designated hitter. 3. Who was the first NFL running back to rush for consecutive 1,000-yard seasons? 4. Who was the last Harvard basketball player before Jeremy Lin to play in the NBA?.

this week in nascar
“We set out to change a lot of stuff, and we’ve seen some improvement in some areas, and in others we haven’t.... The day I don’t think I can be competitive, I promise you, I will leave. I’ve never gotten into a race car to get a check. I got every dollar I could get while I was driving it, but I didn’t want to get in it to get the dollar.

Crashing Myrtle Beach
And I like it. I like it very much. I’ve got a cigar going, and the coffee’s on inside my in-laws’ RV — which, incidentally, is larger and nicer inside than the first apartment I had to myself. I can hear the surf crashing on the shore just a hundred or so yards away, see the palmettos rustle lazily under the influence of a soft, offshore breeze.