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• The Weekender: Pride Edition

  14-09-2017 16:49 via triad-city-beat.com
  LGBTQ Pride parades aren’t historically rooted in celebration. In 1970 — one year after the NYPD violently raided a LGBTQ nightclub, the Stonewall Inn — queer people marched for their humanity in New York, Los Angles, Chicago and San Fransisco. By the mid-70s, organizers began incorporating more lighthearted festivities and voilà: the vibrant Pride parades we recognize today. Yet, LGBTQ people remain uniquely vulnerable to violence and discrimination despite advances lik
  
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• 2 charged after missing man's body found in North Carolina

  14-09-2017 14:05
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• Eighty years and a half a second usher in cycling classic

  14-09-2017 09:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  It’s dark on the course. Lap after lap, the riders have jostled less because of it, being more cautious in obscurity. But a crowd of six turns the final corner together. Now it’s a sprint.
  Downtown High Point has proved a fast course; they’ve averaged 27 miles per hour, and nearly an hour has gone by.
  The physical anguish withdraws. It’s a mental game. This is awareness, reaction, savvy.
  Now it’s just chess.
  Have you been paying attention? Who’s a pawn, who&rs
  
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• WSSU still working to acquire Bowman Gray despite state hurdles

  14-09-2017 09:29 via triad-city-beat.com
  The state of North Carolina has thrown up obstacles to Winston-Salem State University’s acquisition of Bowman Gray Stadium, a facility with a proud tradition of stock-car racing. But the restrictions placed on the facility by the Republican-controlled General Assembly also limit the value of the facility.
  The city of Winston-Salem’s decision in 2013 to offload two major athletics facilities is a tale of two universities.
  Winston-Salem City Council approved a resolution of intent to s
  
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• Editor’s Notebook: Second line with the Tremé Brass Band at the National Folk Fest

  14-09-2017 09:05 via triad-city-beat.com
  We hear the blasts of the lone trumpet cutting through the rain-soaked air of downtown Greensboro on Saturday at dusk — ba-da-BAAAHHH… da — and muscle memory takes over from there.
  We instinctively shuffle into line behind the Tremé Brass Band, my wife and I, as the big bass drum begins to boom, the tuba adding soft pomp to the rhythm, both of us silently hoping that our feet still know what to do.
  We lived for a time in a third-floor French Quarter apartment that abutt
  
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• The List: My four folk fest highlights

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  1. Dancing with hipsters to Cajun music
  The National Folk Festival, which concluded its third and final appearance in Greensboro on Sunday, was rife with examples of stellar musicianship and openhearted cultural ambassadorship, but the event is really about spontaneous moments of community. It’s subjective, of course, but for me the magic happened when my 4-year-old daughter spotted a group of hipster millennials dancing on the East Market Street sidewalk with exaggerated elbow thrusts to
  
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• Kris Fuller, Mike Bosco unite for Bites & Pints

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  On the surface, there isn’t much remarkable about Bites & Pints. One burger bar replaces another, moving in next to a third burger bar, in an area heavily populated by college students and around the corner from a fourth burger bar.
  But that surface-level analysis misses the point.
  Greensboro foodies are talking about Bites & Pints because it’s the latest brainchild of Kris Fuller, the vaunted chef behind Crafted, who’s responsible for writing the celebrated menu at Hop
  
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• Editorial: High Point baseball project is an irresistible force

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  The High Point stadium project and its attendant discussion has set up one of those most rare instances in the physical world: an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
  Cast as the immovable object, the Guilford County Commission acted predictably in spurning the deal, which would have the county forego any extra tax revenue for the next 20 years from the project. It’s a $30 million arena on $15 million worth of land encompassing about 650 acres, the most significant investment ou
  
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• Citizen Green: Proximate threats: political adversaries and extreme weather

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  One of the silver linings of the deadly storms that have battered the Gulf Coast and Florida, figuratively speaking, is that the charged energy of anger and fear generated by Charlottesville has been redirected into volunteer relief efforts, at least to some extent.
  Redneck Revolt, a left-wing militia whose members patrolled a public park in Charlottesville, Va. to protect counter-protesters during the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally, fielded teams from around the country to rescue Houstonians str
  
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• Bookmarks conference binds lit lovers

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  A warm breeze flapped the ends of the tents that were stationed around the city block of Holly, Poplar and Spruce streets in downtown Winston-Salem. As booths were still being set and stocked, the pavement and sidewalks felt the footfalls of hundreds of festivalgoers. Moving from tent to tent, waiting on seminars and panels to begin, there was a feeling of anticipation in the air.
  Since its inception 13 years ago, the literary non-profit festival has made an impressive name for itself in the Nor
  
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• 3 questions for A&T professor Lauren Davis

  14-09-2017 09:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  Lauren Davis is an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at NC A&T State University and the principal investigator for a research project that will train 50 masters and doctoral students to use big data to help organizations that are addressing food insecurity make evidence-based decisions and improve provision of food aid. Her team recently secured a five-year, $3 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program.Why is this one-y
  
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• Can't believe it's here: Final stretch of incredible Japanese tour Updated at

  14-09-2017 04:47
  EDITOR'S NOTE: Jordan Mower is a 2012 graduate of Eastern Randolph High School, where he was heavily involved in the performing arts, including band, chorus, theater, dance and color guard. After earning a bachelor's degree in music education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he moved to Charleston, S.C., in the fall of 2016 to begin his first year as an elementary music teacher.
  
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