Yes Weekly - From The Cover http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-230-1-from-the-cover.html <![CDATA[OLD WAVE]]> triad music scene%uFFFDs aging lions play on. ]]> <![CDATA[The Contenders]]> Democratic hopefuls Cunningham, Lewis and Marshall look to unseat Republican Senator Richard Burr this fall. ]]> <![CDATA[A house divided: Public housing tenants take fight to storied civil rights church]]> Starlyn Nelson whispered to Toni Curtis: %uFFFDListen.%uFFFD LaTonya Stimpson, one of their fellow tenants at JT Hairston Memorial Apartments was engaged in conversation with a woman from Shiloh Baptist Church.. ]]> <![CDATA[ODDS-ON FAVORITE]]> Last month, a new business calling itself Pots O%uFFFD Gold applied for 17 privilege licenses with the city of Greensboro, all listed under the same address: 3806-B High Point Road. This was unusual in that each license was for the same kind of business, a 5141, described as %uFFFDinternet services/ communication%uFFFD on the document. ]]> <![CDATA[FROM PAGE TO STAGE TO SCREEN: ED & ED'S ELEPHANT SIGHS]]> Much of the film takes place in a community center located in a small Pennsylvania town, where a group of middleaged men convene regularly to talk about good days and bad, friends lost and dreams dashed. It is through each other they find strength and support. ]]> <![CDATA[The power of love]]> Don Vaughan, who represents District 27 in the NC Senate, and his wife Nancy, who currently serves as mayor pro tem of Greensboro, met in 1996 when Don served on council and Nancy was a neighborhood advocate fighting against a Jefferson-Pilot project slated for New Garden Road. ]]> <![CDATA[Track Record]]> Bowman Gray Stadium is NASCAR%uFFFDs longest-running weekly racetrack. And now it has its own TV show.. ]]> <![CDATA[1960-2010]]> FIFTY YEARS IS A LONG TIME, LONG ENOUGH THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND GREENSBORO TODAY HAVE VIRTUALLY NO MEMORY OF WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE WHEN FOUR FRESHMEN AT WHAT WAS THEN NC AT COLLEGE SAT DOWN AT THE WOOLWORTH'S LUNCH COUNTER AND POLITELY ASKED TO BE SERVED. ]]> <![CDATA[Whose water is it anyway!?]]> COALITION OF CITIZENS, POLITICIANS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS BATTLE ALCOA TO RETURN THE YADKIN RIVER TO THE PEOPLE. ]]> <![CDATA[The trouble with local filmmaking]]> Written by Matty Simmons, a founder of the National Lampoon entertainment empire, the storyline concerns itself with Frank Hopper, played by Jon Bon Jovi, a lawyer and dreamer whose conception of business principles is equally grandiose and simple. ]]> <![CDATA[Shot in NC]]> For years, North Carolina has nipped at the heels of Hollywood%uFFFDs top-dog status in ilm like an angry pup. ]]> <![CDATA[2009: The year in photos]]> 1. Andre Young shows his affirmation for Brantly Grier, co-director of the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro ["Counseling and a waiting chair offered: New Greensboro 'resource center' part of an effort to meet homeless needs"; Jan. 14, 2009; by Jordan Green]. ]]> <![CDATA[The Meaning of Life]]> This week we resurrect our semi-annual Meaning of Life issue as both a nod to the spiritual nature of this time of year and as a service to our readers, many of whom may have questions about the nature of existence.. ]]> <![CDATA[Working-class hero]]> With Wine to Water, Triad resident Doc Hendley brings the gift of potable water to the millions who are denied this precious resource. He also garnered the attention of CNN - he was nominated for one of the network-s Hero Awards this year. (courtesy photos). ]]> <![CDATA[Trash politics and the cost of waste]]> A front-end loader dumps trash into a waiting trailer in the load-out tunnel beneath the transfer station the city of Greensboro owns on Burnt Poplar Road. The trailer will be hauled 62 miles by a driver employed by Hilco transport and emptied at a private landfill operated by Republic Services in Montgomery County. ]]> <![CDATA[Sam ]]> WANDERING INTO SAM "THE DOT MAN" MCMILLAN'S ART SHOP AND STUDIO OFF NORTHWEST BOULEVARD IN WINSTON-SALEM IS LIKE STEPPING INTO ANOTHER WORLD, A WORLD CREATED BY A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST WHO NEVER PICKED UP A PAINTBRUSH UNTIL THE AGE OF 60. IT IS A CHILDREN'S PARADISE WITH EYE-CATCHING COLORS THAT LEAP ACROSS THE ROOM. ]]> <![CDATA[POWERS' GETS LOCAL]]> Bendis and Oeming are coming. If you don't know what that means, ask the comic fan in your life. If you don't have one, Acme Comics Manager Jermaine Exum is happy to stand in."Imagine if Michael Bay opened Transformers 3 at the Carousel," he says, by way of explanation. ]]> <![CDATA[The Fungus Among Us]]> A cross-section of a French black Perigordtruffle reveals a marbled countenance with a texture somewhere between a nut and an apple.. ]]> <![CDATA[Slumlord millionaire: A love story?]]> Is it a story about love? A story about greed? That would depend on who's telling it. It's primarily a story about family, but also one about storing up treasure and what happens when people get old and start to lose their wits, about what people need at the end of their lives and who gets what after they%uFFFDre gone. ]]> <![CDATA[FAITH & POLITICS]]> The Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed CHANGE's annual fall assembly in Winston-Salem. "We learned a bad lesson well -how to survive apart - and must learn to live together," Jackson told those in attendance. [photo by Keith T. Barber]. ]]>