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• GALLERY: High Point Furniture Market features big names like Joanna Gaines, Josh Stein

  17-04-2024 16:24 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Design star Joanna Gaines shares her own successful experience in building a business that endures in today unpredictable world at High Point Theatre on April 13, 2024. (photo by Maaroupi Sani)Since kicking off last Saturday, the spring High Point Furniture Market has been in full swing drawing thousands to the furniture capitol of the world. Among them include design and home decor superstar Joanna Gaines who spoke on Saturday to a packed house and NC gubernatorial candidate Jos
  
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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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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Taking time off

  18-04-2024 09:43 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  There’s really no such thing as time off when you’re a reporter. The news never stops. There’s always something to report, whether it’s good or bad. And when you embed yourself in stories and communities, it can be hard to take a step back and breathe. When you miss an update or can’t cover all of the stories people send to you, guilt can set in.It’s part of the job. And those feelings are what make for a good reporter.But because of that, it’s so import
  
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• GALLERY: A peak into the showrooms at this year’s High Point Furniture Market

  18-04-2024 00:12 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  The High Point Furniture Market, which takes place twice a year, is the world’s largest wholesale home furnishings show open to retailers and design professionals. While regular folks can’t attend the market, we got a sneak peek at some of the showrooms at this year’s event.Photos by Maaroupi SaniTOV Furniture, High Point Furniture Market, April 14, 2024.TOV Furniture, High Point Furniture Market, April 14, 2024.TOV Furniture, High Point Furniture Market, April 14, 2024.TOV Fur
  
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• GALLERY: Strange Fruit Music Festival returns to Greensboro

  17-04-2024 18:30 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Artists take the stage at the 2024 Strange Fruit Music Festival in downtown Greensboro on April 13, 2024. (photo by Maaroupi Sani)On Saturday, April 13, the Strange Fruit Music Festival returned to Greensboro and featured dozens of music acts ranging from jazz to soul to funk to hip-hop. The event, which took place downtown, drew hundreds of visitors.The festival is hosted by the Strange Fruit Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to creating opportunities of value to B
  
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• EDITORIAL: On Tax Day, a note about taxes

  17-04-2024 11:47 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  We hear a lot about taxes this time of year, particularly when there’s an election on the horizon. So it’s as good a time as any to lay down some unassailable tax facts for beginners and advanced students alike.Nobody likes paying taxes! Yet the fact remains that this is how we pay for everything we do as a community and as a nation: garbage and leaf collection, roads, sidewalks, the entire criminal-justice system, public water, public housing, public schools, public utilities, parks
  
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• GPD releases footage from 2023 shooting of Graham Roberson, which reveals that he had a BB and toy gun

  16-04-2024 19:35 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A screenshot from GPD Officer Corrigan’s body-worn camera footage that shows Graham Roberson through the windshield before he gets shot. (screenshot)A picture of Graham Roberson from the online obituary.
  On June 22, 2023, Graham Thomas Roberson, a 51-year-old white man was shot and killed by Greensboro police officer John P. Corrigan. And on Monday, the Greensboro Police Department released the body-cam and vehicle footage from the incident after a Superior Court judge gran
  
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• GPD releases 2023 shooting footage of Graham Roberson, which reveal that he had a BB and toy gun

  16-04-2024 19:35 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A screenshot from GPD Officer Corrigan’s body-worn camera footage that shows Graham Roberson through the windshield before he gets shot. (screenshot)A picture of Graham Roberson from the online obituary.
  On June 22, 2023, Graham Thomas Roberson, a 51-year-old white man was shot and killed by Greensboro police officer John P. Corrigan. And on Monday, the Greensboro Police Department released the body-cam and vehicle footage from the incident after a Superior Court judge gran
  
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• Q&A with actor Andrew Brewer, who plays the Duke in ‘Moulin Rouge’ musical

  15-04-2024 22:17 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Andrew Brewer as the Duke of Monroth (photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)Actor Andrew Brewer, 36, plays the Duke of Monroth in the North American Broadway tour of Moulin Rouge, which opens at the Tanger Center in Greensboro on Tuesday and runs through April 28. The musical, which debuted in 2018, is based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In the film, McGregor plays Christian, a poet who falls in love with Kidman’s character, a caba
  
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• Q&A with actor Andrew Brewer, who plays the Duke in ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’

  15-04-2024 22:17 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Andrew Brewer as the Duke of Monroth (photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)Actor Andrew Brewer, 36, plays the Duke of Monroth in the North American Broadway tour of Moulin Rouge, which opens at the Tanger Center in Greensboro on Tuesday and runs through April 28. The musical, which debuted in 2018, is based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In the film, McGregor plays Christian, a poet who falls in love with Kidman’s character, a caba
  
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• Three NC teams, including High Point’s Carolina Core, enter Round Three of the Open Cup

  13-04-2024 18:43 via triad-city-beat.com
  Featured photo: Carolina Core defender Kai Thomas (#4), Vermont Green defender Zach Barrett (#28), and Carolina Core goalkeeper Andrew Pannenberg (center, purple kit) fight over a ball at Carolina Core’s net in the first half. (photo courtesy Carolina Core FC/LukeThis story was republished from Soccer Sheet, a reader-supported publication focused on soccer by Sam Spencer.In the second round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, two of North Carolina’s three remaining teams faced stiff cha
  
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• The once popular Bird scooters have officially returned to Greensboro. Here’s what you need to know.

  12-04-2024 21:00 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A Bird scooter, ready to roll. (Photo courtesy of Bird)Scooters have returned to Greensboro.After the city’s former scooter operator, Blue Duck, unexpectedly flew away, Bird Rides Inc. scooters have flocked to the city to roost.Per city council’s Dec. 19 decision, Bird is now the sole operator of electric scooters and bikes for rent within the city limits.Although Bird filed for bankruptcy at the end of December, the city is still going forward with the partnership. T
  
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• Three North Carolina Teams Enter Round Three of the Open Cup

  12-04-2024 00:34 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  The Carolina Core and the Charlotte Independence overcome potential cupsets to advance in the United States’ oldest soccer competition.This piece originally ran in The Soccer Sheet.In the second round of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, two of North Carolina’s three remaining teams faced stiff challenges from semi-pro teams with first round upsets under their belts.On Tuesday, April 2, the South Carolina United Heat battled the Charlotte Independence to a penalty shootout at American Legi
  
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• Q&A: Winston-Salem’s Housing Justice Now is part of a new statewide tenant union. Here’s what that means.

  11-04-2024 21:52 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  On April 2, six tenant organizations from around the state banded together to start a new statewide tenant union called the North Carolina Tenants Union, led by Nick MacLeod. In a conversation, TCB asked MacLeod and Housing Justice Now’s Sudarshan Krishnamurthy about how the new statewide organization will help local branches like HJN in Winston-Salem.Disclosure: Sudarshan Krishnamurthy is a freelance writer for TCB.
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  Tell me about how the NC Tenants Unio
  
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• EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Things are happening

  11-04-2024 18:59 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Things are happening around here.Of course, at Triad City Beat, we’ve been talking everybody’s ear off about how this year marks the 10-year-anniversary of the paper. We’ve been pushing out a fundraiser to commemorate it and help pay for our election coverage.And then, there’s larger statewide news like the creation of a local fund for journalism called Press Forward NC. We’re on the list and we’re hopeful we’re going to get a chunk to help sustain our e
  
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