Yes Weekly

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

YES! WEEKLY

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

YES! WEEKLY
We at YES! Weekly realize that the interest of our readers goes well beyond the boundaries of the Piedmont Triad.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[BE there

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[BE there
By HANNAH FAIRWEATHER
Of Montreal, an indie-pop band from Athens, Ga., combines musical experimentation with the basic tenets of pop — catchy melodies and sing-along choruses. The band’s style has been influenced by conventional indie pop, psychedelic music, vaudeville and by afrobeat, funk, krautrock and reggae on their recent releases.

[YES! LIST]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

“It’s got character galore. [We] could do a lecture series. Heck, you could do a church up here.” — former Greensboro mayor and current Carolina Theatre President Keith Holliday, dulling any edge that the new space at the theater might have. Read the story on page 12.

[TEN BEST]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By KAITLYN MCBRIDE
I’m 17; I figure I’ll sleep when I’m dead. There are so many great things that seem to transpire as the dark hours of the morning pass by. I can discover new bands, chat with my friends about school or work and sometimes even do productive things like clean my room.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[LOCAL TALENT]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[LOCAL TALENT]
By JEFF LAUGHLIN
As she sells her modern handmade tableware, Emery knows learning more about her craft can only strengthen her foothold in her profession. Even with her recent successes, she continues to try and finish school at Guilford College while running her business.

[BUSTED]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By ALEX ASHE
The Winston-Salem Police Department is searching for a man suspected of fraudulently impersonating an officer and obtaining property under false pretenses. On May 15, a man identifying himself as Detective Joe Kennedy visited an 81-year-old woman at her home.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Winston-Salem council votes to sell coliseum and stadium

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Winston-Salem council votes to sell coliseum and stadium
By JORDAN GREEN
Winston-Salem City Council decided in a 5-2 vote on Monday to authorize the sale of Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum to Wake Forest University, with the majority brushing aside a substitute motion to put the deal on hold and direct the city manager to explore other cost-saving measures through contracting out the management of the facility.

[BIDNESS]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By JORDAN GREEN
In an attempt to divert material from the landfill following the semester-end emptying of campus, UNCG hosts a sale of items discarded by students, most of which are items of clothing. The sale goes down in Cone Ballroom in Elliott University Center on June 1 from 9 a.

[SCUTTLEBUTT]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By ERIC GINSBURG
The proposed downtown Greensboro performing arts center needs at least $20 million in private funds to become a reality, but fundraising efforts took a significant leap forward in the last week with the announcement of two pledges totaling $4.5 million.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

New venue space at Carolina Theatre could fill niche

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

New venue space at Carolina Theatre could fill niche
By ERIC GINSBURG
The void of a mid-sized performance space in Greensboro is at the forefront of plenty of minds in local music and performing-arts scenes, but Carolina Theatre President Keith Holliday may have a solution. With some renovation, a large, somewhat forgotten room on the third floor of the Carolina Theatre could fill that niche, he said.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Immigration activists look to city council for help with state reform

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Immigration activists look to city council for help with state reform
By JORDAN GREEN
Councilman James Taylor Jr., who represents the Southeast Ward, wants Winston-Salem City Council to pass a resolution in support of state legislation that would allow undocumented students to receive in-state tuition at North Carolina universities and community colleges.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Hundreds of People Camp Out For B-Thrifty’s Grand Opening, Ribbon-Cutting

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Hundreds of People Camp Out For B-Thrifty’s Grand Opening, Ribbon-Cutting
B-Thrifty is a super thrift store and international bazaar where the community can shop for amazing savings and the best bargains every day with an expansive inventory of over 250,000 items. Open seven days a week, B-Thrifty is locallyowned and operated and committed to being a good community partner.

Selling off the stadiums

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

But now, Winston-Salem city leaders have done something Greensboro has been talking about for years but hasn’t been able to pull off: privatizing its city-owned coliseum. (Side note — no doubt G-boro doesn’t like talk of the ACC Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Obama and Nixon: Brothers from another mother

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The fact is that Nixon and Obama might just be mirror images of each other. Both men grew up poor and powerless, yet became rich and powerful. Both men were heavily influenced by political machines and private-sector power brokers who helped them get elected.

True grit

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The British captured him and made him a servant for British officers. When one ordered Jackson to clean his boots, Jackson refused, and the officer slashed Jackson’s hand with a sword. When Jackson became president, he showed off the scar..

Politics and justice in the Kalvin Michael Smith case

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

With North Carolina Democrats exiled from both houses of the state legislature and its recently elected state chairman facing allegations of misusing party funds and stacking the executive committee with cronies to insulate himself from accountability, they might be looking for a figure unscathed by recent partisan battles.

Voting for dollars

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Every day, when we fork over a few bucks for lunch, swipe our debit cards for tanks of gas or load up a cart of groceries, we make decisions based on value, convenience, quality and availability.

[WHITE NOISE]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By ALEX ASHE
The mass turnover has disheartened the paper’s remaining staff, whose mood Musto has described as “dour.” By releasing esteemed, long-tenured writers in favor of cheaper alternatives, the Voice.

[NEWS OF THE WEIRD]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The beauty pageant each April at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas requires traditional skills like interview poise, evening-gown fashion and talent, but also some ability and inclination to milk and skin rattlers.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

May 22, 7pm, “The Art of Improv”. Moring Arts Center, 123 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro. A free lecture and performance by local comedy/theatre troupe with a brief history of improv, technique examples and even actual “improv-ing” with optional audience participation.

THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT
By ERIC GINSBURG
With two bare hands wrapped around the flattipped shovel, Brian Norris doesn’t have to step on the top of the blade with his work boot very hard for it to slide halfway into the earth. Norris works his way around what looks like a metal window frame laying on ground, slipping the blade into the dirt to mark of the edges of the grave.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[EXTENDED PLAY]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By RYAN SNYDER
Greensboro duo Eros & the Eschaton offer fetishized acid pop at Krankies on Friday with Must Be the Holy Ghost, Willower and the Revolutionary Sweethearts, while their dark antithesis Spirit System join Echo Crush and White Rifles at the Garage.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes finds his muse in the City by the Bay

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes finds his muse in the City by the Bay
By RYAN SNYDER
“Boring,” “mainstream” and “conservative” may be the last words that would ever be used to describe an of Montreal record, though Kevin Barnes is certain that his descriptions of his forthcoming album Lousy with Sylvianbriar.

[LOCA & LLive

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Open Mic/Jam Krankies Coffee (W-S):.

JESSE DEE — ON MY MIND/IN MY HEART

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

For a stretch of gigs back in 2010, Boston folk rockers the Ryan Montbleau Band would occasionally welcome a silky-voiced newcomer named Jesse Dee to help the band indulge their fondness for quirky covers. For a band that is never loathe to step outside their oeuvre, it was more of an opportunity to showcase a remarkably talented fellow Bostonian.

[CONCERTS]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

May 23: Kenny Chesney, Eli Young Band, Kacey Musgraves June 8: Brad Paisley, Chris Young, Lee Brice June 21: Zac Brown Band June 22: Heart, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience July 7: Big Time Rush, Victoria Justice July 11: The Black Keys, The...

Carolina Blues Fest: A bluesman stays home

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Carolina Blues Fest: A bluesman stays home
A year ago this past weekend, bluesman Eric Gales played a gig that would change his life. Before his headlining turn at the Carolina Blues Festival, he was known almost as much for his past recidivism as he was for his Herculean feats on the guitar,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[RYAN’S FORECAST]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

It’s not hard to imagine that the early to mid 2000s were a difficult time for Lil John’s Mountain Music Festival.

[MUSICIAN’S EXCHANGE]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Hard Rock Singer Songwriter seeking drummer with chops. Looking to start jamming and rehearsing and to go straight into the studio to record the songs. I have around 30 originals and want to make the first album 9 songs. If you want to be in a serious band with chops and good songwriting hit me up.

[FOUND OBJECTS]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By JORDAN GREEN
Woodie Anderson, Ian Bredice, Mike Duggins, Millicent Greason, Peter Spivak, Laurie Russell, Cindy Taplin, Dave Urena, Nicole Uzzell, Clark Whittington and Ed Young exhibit at the Community Arts Café in downtown Winston-Salem on Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Justin Poe provides perilous view of shelter

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Justin Poe provides perilous view of shelter
By JEFF LAUGHLIN
These projects connect ideas. Aesthetically, he pleases the viewer with gorgeous places within places, forcing us to imagine ourselves building shelter where we would never imagine having to. His projects are naturally thought-provoking while simple enough to adorn dining-room tables.

[YOST IN THE MACHINE]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In recent weeks, I’ve been very moved while watching the coverage of the release of the three missing women that Ariel Castro held hostage in his Cleveland residence for 10 years.

Film screenings examine a public concern and the glory of the Olympics

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The film examines the controversy surrounding the use of “biosolids,” fertilizer elements being spread on local and statewide farmlands — and in many cases near heavilypopulated areas. Evidence suggests that this “free fertilizer” has an adverse impact on the environment, air quality, water safety and general health.

[PLAYBILL]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By LENISE WILLIS
Tickets are $40 each for the wedding-themed dinner and a show, plus a cash bar. Raffle items ($10 each) appropriate for a wedding will be available, such as jewelry, vacation, salon and spa packages. To make a reservation, call the High Point Area Arts Council at 336.

Haunts of the very rich: Leonardo Dicaprio is The Great Gatsby

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Haunts of the very rich: Leonardo Dicaprio is The Great Gatsby
With characterization is a secondary consideration, the film is primarily concerned — and consumed — with its opulent (and admittedly eye-catching) production design and a flashy, hip-hop attitude that feels someone anachronistic amidst the Roaring Twenties’ surroundings but is right up Luhrmann’s alley.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[VIDEO VAULT]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[VIDEO VAULT]
By MARK BURGER
Director Brett Whitcomb has fashioned a rousing triumph with the unlikeliest of topics — a documentary about the late-’80s cable-TV show “GLOW: The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.” For those who remember the series (and you know who you are), “GLOW” wasn’t so much titillating and exploitative as campy and silly.

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Grandma’s Greatest Cookie Contest

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Grandma’s Greatest Cookie Contest
By BRIAN CLAREY
And walking among the tables of wares at Grandma’s Cookie Contest at Independence Village in Winston-Salem — five of them, larded down with chocolate-chip goodness, roasted-nut crannies, shavedcoconut nests, stacked on doilies, placed in muffin...

Fire in the Triad amazes in its first week

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By NIKKI MILLER-KA
Eighteen dishes, six chefs, four featured ingredients and three nights all add up to one incredible first week of Fire in the Triad. All of that is simply a recipe for local culinary drama complete with a live audience and a soundtrack of forks clanging against plates in enjoyment and fun.

[SALOME’S STARS]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

[THE ADVICE GODDESS]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

became guilty and torn. Two weeks ago, after we had an amazing date, she texted to say she was “falling apart” and quitting our show. She’s since made our friendship conditional on our not being involved anymore and my not questioning her quitting or discussing what happened.

[CRASHING THE GATE]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

She’s getting better with the crutches, though it’s harder to grip the right one after losing a couple of those fingers to the fire. The prosthetic legs are tricky, too, though when she sits and crosses them, ladylike, they seem as much a part of her as everything else.