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Transforming Greensboro one office — and vision — at a time By Maria Johnson Photographs by Amy Freeman   Thirty-three-year-old Dan Brown, founder of one of Greensboro’s newest start-ups, [...]

A Visionary Perspective A lot can happen in 10 years. This city — and magazine — are living proof. Greensboro’s past and present have graced our pages over the last decade. Heading into our next [...]

Our 10-word short story winners   Back in January, we announced a short story contest in honor of our namesake, William Sydney Porter. As in, really short. “Tell us a story in 10 words,” we [...]

Photographs By Lynn Donovan and Bert VanderVeen   The spirit of William Sydney Porter, aka O.Henry, is alive and well in the city he once called home. In fact, on a recent autumn morning, [...]

Quarantine Haircut   I’ve had hundreds of haircuts over the years but never one as intimate as the one Julie gave me yesterday, mid-quarantine, and my hair standing up and out of control and [...]

Content May be Graphic How discovering artist Christopher Williams was sort of a perk of the job   By Billy Eye Toward the end of middle school we went on a field trip to Virginia to go [...]

Turkey Time A surprisingly wily wild bird   By Susan Campbell Shorter days and cooler nights have many of us thinking about the holiday season. Thanksgiving is not that far off — and that [...]

Just Waiting for the Rain to Pass An excerpt from the N.C. Literary Hall-of-Famer’s new release   By Bland Simpson Once, after a walk up to some stores on the edge of the Greensboro [...]

Name Calling Garden hacks of a different nature   By Cynthia Adams My friend Pratt, choking back laughter, rings me up and tells me he created a monster. He is talking about his sister, [...]

A Heaping Helping Giving thanks for this season’s bounty of new releases   Compiled by Shannon Purdy Jones It’s fitting that we’ll all gather together later this month to celebrate the [...]