Writings
Crashing the Gate
May 14, 2013 10:00PM
I have lived in Greensboro for 13 years, and have researched and written hundreds of stories in and around downtown Greensboro. In the early years of the last decade, I worked out of an office building that stood on what is now Center City Park. Back then, walking to my car after dark was a lonely experience.
May 07, 2013 10:00PM
We also made some changes to the Voices section. We will no longer be running Chuck Norris’ weekly column. Frankly, he’s neither an exceptional thinker nor a practiced logician, and I’m coming to believe that syndicated content like this has no place in a local newspaper.
Apr 30, 2013 10:00PM
First off, you’ve got to give the kid some credit. He’s 10 years old, and up to this point, because of a domineering big brother and slightly overcompetitive father, he very rarely gets to win at anything — chess, Monopoly, Yu-Gi-Oh, water fights, bedroom wrestling matches, footraces, staring contests… you name it.
Apr 23, 2013 10:00PM
I didn’t know it back then, but Harold Hayes sparked a revolution just a few miles away from where I was sitting when he came to the venerable New York men’s magazine after its postwar pin-up period, survived a power grab against Clay Felker and managed to change the face and tone of the American magazine forever.
Apr 16, 2013 10:00PM
There was a time when it took me a week to celebrate my birthday: a frenzied build-up loaded with discussions and plans, a preparty galvanizing the potential for the Big Night, which could roll on for another two days if the money and the celebrants held out.
