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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Charlie Hunter and the fine kettle

  07-11-2019 09:40 via triad-city-beat.com
  Charlie Hunter is one of the most important guitarists working today.The post EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Charlie Hunter and the fine kettle appeared first on The NC Triad's altweekly.
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Mothering is an act

  09-05-2024 19:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  I’ve been thinking a lot about motherhood and what it means to be a mother lately. Yes, it’s because Mother’s Day is around the corner but also because my partner and I have been having serious conversations about whether or not we want to become parents, and for me, that means becoming a mother.So what does it mean?It remains an unfortunate reality that being a mother and being a father — if you’re in a heterosexual relationship, of course — have different im
  
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• Greensboro’s Mayor Nancy Vaughan will not seek re-election in 2025

  08-05-2024 21:10 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Mayor Nancy Vaughan speaks during the June 6 city council meeting (photo by Todd Turner)Seated at the dais in Greensboro’s city hall on Tuesday night, Mayor Nancy Vaughan reflected on the work she’s done over the last decade as the city’s leader — in the very seat where she’s made countless major decisions.“When I look back at the last 11 years, I’m proud of all of the things that we have accomplished. My goal was to move this city forwar
  
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• Tents, chants and demands: A look at the timeline of the Wake Forest University pro-Palestinian protests

  07-05-2024 23:11 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A group of students, faculty and staff protesting against the war in Gaza set up an encampment at Wake Forest University last week. (Photo by Gale Melcher)Last week, dozens of students, professors and staff congregated on the lawn of Manchester Plaza at Wake Forest University, demanding that university administration divest from companies with ties to Israel. Wake Forest University is the latest institute of higher education to feel the wave of campus encampments led by students.
  
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• NC Senate panel OKs bill requiring sheriffs to cooperate with ICE

  07-05-2024 01:44 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was first published by Ahmed Jallow, NC Newsline
  May 2, 2024On May 1, the North Carolina Senate Committee on Rules and Operations approved HB10, a controversial bill requiring cooperation between all North Carolina sheriffs and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.The bill now heads to the Senate floor for consideration from the whole chamber. If approved, the measure will return to the House for concurrence in Senate amendments.North Carolina sheriffs are already required under c
  
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• There are 21 food deserts in Winston-Salem, a legacy of racist redlining that persists today

  06-05-2024 22:37 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: The Rescue Mission in Winston-Salem provides people with food insecurity a supermarket-like shopping experience. (photo by Hope Zhu)This story was originally published by Hope Zhu, NC Newsline
  May 6, 2024This story is part of a series on food insecurity and possible solutions in Forsyth County, reported, written and photographed by Wake Forest University journalism students. The series was part of a semester-long class was taught by Newsline Environmental Investigative Reporter a
  
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• EDITORIAL: Going beyond the press release

  06-05-2024 21:21 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Last week, the Justice Department sent out a press release about the indictment of a High Point man, Ariel E. Collazo Ramoz, on a single count of mailing threatening communications.From the release: “Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar of Temple Beth Israel in Macon received a threatening postcard at her home via the US Postal Service on Feb. 1, 2024, allegedly from Collazo Ramos. On one side of the postcard, there was a handwritten message: ‘Is there a child rape, torture, and murder tunnel
  
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• Dan Bishop said the 2020 election was stolen. Now he wants to be NC’s attorney general.

  05-05-2024 19:21 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  This story was first published by Kelan Lyons, NC Newsline
  May 3, 2024After the 2020 election, U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina became an outspoken proponent of the lie that Democrats had rigged the results. He accused the rival party of running a national campaign to tie up the courts and disrupt the election’s administration, announcing that he would contest Electoral College votes in four states that were key to Joe Biden’s victory.“The Democrats’ objectives were
  
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• Two buildings from the glory days of RJ Reynolds could be listed on the National Register of Historic Places

  03-05-2024 15:01 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: An RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company warehouse building (photo courtesy of the city of Winston-Salem)A name synonymous with the development of Winston-Salem, the moniker of RJ Reynolds is tacked onto many places around the city; RJ Reynolds High School, Reynolda Village, and Reynolda Hall at Wake Forest University, just to name a few, plus the historic Reynoldstown neighborhood in East Winston, built for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company workers. Reynolds’ effect on the Camel City is s
  
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• The landscape of Winston-Salem is changing — and so are its power players

  02-05-2024 20:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Aerial view of downtown Winston-SalemWinston-Salem is ever in a state of flux, especially now.In January, CVS left its downtown location at 201 W. Fourth Street, a space which has yet to be filled. February opened the doors of the Kaleideum, a new children’s museum that came with a $48 million price tag, paid for by Forsyth County, the state and gifts from donors. Harvest Market, a co-op created to address food shortages downtown, closed in February. Slappy’s Chicken
  
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• In Greensboro, a citywide ID program is improving the lives of immigrant residents

  02-05-2024 19:08 via triad-city-beat.com
  Even as state officials take aim at municipal ID programs, immigrants and police in Greensboro say the program is a powerful tool.Marielle Argueza is Triad City Beat and Next City’s new Equitable Cities Reporting Fellow for Racial Justice Narratives fellow. Argueza will be reporting on behalf of both newsrooms for the next four months on issues pertaining to diverse communities in Greensboro.To her neighbors, employers, kids and church, Socorro had long been an integral part of Greensboro.
  
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• At High Point’s inaugural high school Battle of the Bands competition, mentorship paves the way for next generation

  02-05-2024 10:55 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Southwest Guilford’s students perform during the inaugural High Point Battle of the Bands competition on April 26. (photo by Maaroupi Sani)When Matthew Brailsford was a freshman in high school, he marched on trumpet at Northeast Guilford and continued marching throughout his college career as part of North Carolina A&T’s Blue and Gold Marching Machine. He says that he fell in love with marching because of its competitive atmosphere and the way it helps create
  
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• Greensboro’s first AAPI Film Festival shows the importance, not boundaries, of the Asian-American experience

  01-05-2024 16:31 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: The city’s first AAPI Film Festival was held at the Greensboro History Museum on April 27. (photo by Sayaka Matsuoka)The length of a mother’s fingers, wanting to belong, shots of families eating, the humor in certain sounds.At the inaugural AAPI Film Festival held at the Greensboro History Museum, the messaging across the screen was our shared humanity.“I wanted to show that Asians are more than doctors or scientists,” said organizer and PAVE NC co-founder
  
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• EDITORIAL: Republicans behaving badly

  01-05-2024 14:40 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  We generally like to stick to policy in this space when it comes to politics: bills, votes, grassroots movements and the like.But we can’t ignore a slew of reporting by the Assembly on two incidents involving North Carolina GOP lawmakers that read like the actions of frat boys run amok in all the worst ways.The first, in a piece that came out on Tuesday, reported out a Reddit post from an employee at a distillery in Kentucky claiming that 33 NC legislators arrived for a bourbon tasting. Am
  
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• A film screening in Winston-Salem shows direct impacts of the prison-industrial complex

  30-04-2024 16:29 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Community members gathered at Winston-Salem State University’s CG O’Kelly library to view a screening of five short films that dove into prison-industrial complex abolition. (photo by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy)Since 1980, more than 350 prisons have been built in America and has been accompanied by a steep increase in the number of individuals who are incarcerated, according to author Judah Schept. While 500,000 people were incarcerated in 1980, more than two million in
  
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• After being ‘slapped on the wrist,’ the city of Winston-Salem is looking to change how its bus service is managed

  29-04-2024 23:52 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Clark Campbell Transportation Center is the central hub for the Winston-Salem Transit Authority. (photo by Gale Melcher)For people who don’t own a car or have access to one, buses offer a crucial lifeline to jobs, education and grocery stores, as well as friends and family. According to a 2024 report by Forbes, around eight percent of American households do not own a car, and according to the American Public Transportation Association, 45 percent of Americans do not have an
  
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• Making something good: Greensboro’s zine community is as vibrant as ever

  29-04-2024 22:26 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Zines on display at UNCG’s Fold Under Pressure Zine Fair on April 20. (photo by Autumn Karen)“How about we make something good?” 5-year-old Joseph Burello asks artist Jason Lord at the Greensboro Project Space at 111 February One Place on April 20.They sit before a table littered with various kinds of paper, surrounded by Lord’s MFA exhibition. Creating book materials with the community was always part of the vision for the exhibition through Lord’s
  
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• GALLERY: Greensboro Fire Department conducts live-fire training

  29-04-2024 19:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A member of the Greensboro Fire Department watches during the live-fire training on April 25. (photo by Maaroupi Sani)On Friday, April 25, the Greensboro Fire Department conducted a live-fire training at 1816 New Garden Road. According to the fire department, these exercises are for current firefighters to practice extinguishment, ventilation and search techniques. Heavy amounts of smoke that did not pose hazards to the public was visible in the
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Reporting the news is a team sport

  29-04-2024 17:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  We adhere to high journalistic standards at Triad City Beat. Even though we’re a small team, we always check out the facts, pull the documents, ask the tough questions and even show up to people’s places of work when we need to get straight answers. But every now and again a story comes along that requires even us to reach out to our most trusted advisors for a third or fourth set of eyes.And that’s because reporting the news is a team sport.Even with a story that’s
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Making news is a team sport

  29-04-2024 17:06 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  We adhere to high journalistic standards at Triad City Beat. Even though we’re a small team, we always check out the facts, pull the documents, ask the tough questions and even show up to people’s places of work when we need to get straight answers. But every now and again a story comes along that requires even us to reach out to our most trusted advisors for a third or fourth set of eyes.And that’s because making news is a team sport.Even with a story that’s shorter
  
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• Greensboro’s bus system could radically change, allowing for more routes. What will it cost?

  26-04-2024 18:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Buses drop off and pick up passengers at Greensboro’s J. Galyon Depot, a transit hub downtown. (Photo by Gale Melcher)As the last few hours of Thursday’s sunny afternoon slipped away and cars muttered in evening traffic, hordes of buses were still rolling in and out of Greensboro’s downtown J. Galyon Depot with a rumbling hum. One  passenger with packed bags peered down the street before running to catch his bus. Others rested against the brick wall of the
  
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• UNCG Provost steps down, citing health condition

  26-04-2024 00:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: UNC-Greensboro Provost Debbie Storrs announced she will step down Wednesday, citing the metastatic breast cancer with which she was diagnosed in 2022.This story was originally published by Joe Killian, NC Newsline on April 24, 2024UNC-Greensboro Provost Debbie Storrs announced she will step down Wednesday, citing the metastatic breast cancer with which she was diagnosed in 2022.“The disease is stage 4, with treatment that has been challenging given its significant side effe
  
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• Independence, NCFC Advance to U.S. Open Cup Round of 32, Carolina Core falls

  25-04-2024 23:31 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Charlotte Independence goalkeeper Austin Pack (l) puts his head in the way to stop a header from Rhode Island FC’s Mark Doyle (center, yellow) in the second half of Charlotte’s 4-4, (5-4) win in the Third Round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. (photo by Sam Spencer)This story was republished from Soccer Sheet, a reader-supported publication focused on soccer by Sam Spencer.The Third Round of the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the country’s longest-running soccer
  
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• Residents of Clifford Apartments in W-S continue fight to purchase complex from the city

  24-04-2024 23:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Clifford Apartments residents and activists speak in front of city hall in Winston-Salem, Dr. Arnita Miles addresses the crowd on Jan. 8. (photo by Gale Melcher)After months of uncertainty, tenants of an affordable housing complex in downtown Winston-Salem are seeking to purchase their home.Tucked away behind West End Boulevard, 800 N. Spring St, otherwise known as Clifford Apartments, was formerly owned by nonprofit organization Experiment in Self-Reliance. ESR has long partnere
  
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• GALLERY: Greensboro community celebrates Southeast Asian New Year

  24-04-2024 22:15 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: An San performs a dance at Southeast Asian New Year Celebration on April 14, 2024. (photo by Maaroupi Sani)On April 14, hundreds of people gathered at the Wat, a Buddhist and Hindu temple, in Greensboro off of Liberty Rd. to celebrate the Southeast Asian New Year.Unlike Western New Year, many southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Laos celebrate the New Year in April usually between April 13-16.This year, there were ceremonial dances, game
  
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• Guilford County educators push for increased wages, higher pay for cafeteria workers

  24-04-2024 18:15 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Dozens of teachers and staff wearing red shirts gathered in front of the Guilford County School Board building on the evening of April 17, just before the school board meeting began. (photo by Margaret Ritsch)Dozens of teachers and staff wearing red shirts gathered in front of the Guilford County School Board building on the evening of April 17, just before the school board meeting began. “When Guilford’s schools are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight b
  
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• Age of Madness: Madness is the answer to an unjust world

  23-04-2024 18:38 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Age of Madness is a column by Shell Everette exploring and unpacking the complicated injustices of the world through an intersectional perspective.I didn’t think about the handcuffs.I only remembered the old purse holding my dying iPhone and broken wallet splayed on a sidewalk once my friend and I were physically safe from the wrath of the Greensboro Police Department. After sprinting from the Guilford County Detention Center for what felt like years, we paused in a peaceful field nea
  
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• EDITORIAL: NC’s fiscal cliff

  23-04-2024 14:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Last week in this space, we discussed taxes, what we use them for and why everybody needs to kick in their fair share to make sure the trains run on time, literally!But we may have, as we say in journalism, buried the lede.As we lamented the loss of corporate taxes in NC (disclosure: We are a corporation!), we neglected to mention that, under Republican rule, the state has been running a budget surplus, which means that we have not spent all the monies collected. It will be as much as $1.4 billi
  
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• Make no mis-steak: Serve high-end restaurant-quality meals at home with products from Southern Foods

  22-04-2024 16:48 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Southern Foods
  407 Westcliff Road GSO
  336.545.3664
  southernfoods.comEveryone’s a professional chef when they shop at Southern Foods.An affiliate of Cheney Brothers, Inc. since 2016, Southern Foods is a food products supplier in Greensboro specializing in choice meats, seafood and specialty groceries from brands found nowhere else. By purchasing from Southern Foods, home chefs can create luxurious meals from exclusive products right in their home kitchens.In addition to restaurants across t
  
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• At this year’s RiverRun, documentaries about the Triad shine through

  18-04-2024 10:10 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A still from the documentary, Bloom, which follows three families and their doulas in NC.
  A story about one team’s journey to the championships. An intimate look at three families’ birthing process. An inspiring music teacher. A portrait of an activist group.For this year’s RiverRun Festival, we chose a handful of documentaries — both long and short — that were filmed in the Triad and feature local stories.The festival starts on Thursday and runs thr
  
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