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Jennifer Meanley creates kaleidoscopic realities By Liza Roberts .    .  Center: As if smoldering and smoke were oneness evoked by thought and expression, oil on paper mounted on panel, 15 x 15 [...]

Go Confidently From bringing a baby into the world to sending him out into it By Cassie Bustamante Eighteen years ago, as I approached the birth of my first baby, a boy, I thought I knew how it [...]

Drink It Up The once-dry Asheboro now has a downtown that overflows with opportunities for dining, shopping and entertainment By Page Leggett  •  Photographs By John Gessner I didn’t grow up in [...]

June is a daydream; a picnic; a long, sweet song. Beyond the sunlit meadow — thick with thistle and crickets and Queen Anne’s lace — the grandfather oak has gone moony. Most days, he is patient. [...]

Zany or Zen:  Me and the Chelsea Lodging complaints By Cynthia Adams It was my father’s idea to book me into the Hotel Chelsea. Yes, that Chelsea — Manhattan’s confounding hotel. I was 15, en [...]

Flying Toward Catastrophe The real canaries in the coal mine By Anne Blythe Many of us turned a more enthusiastic ear toward the chorus of birds in our midst during the early days of the [...]

Morning routines that get — and keep — three professionals going By Cynthia Adams A newswoman arrives at work at 3 a.m. An architect seeks to establish a natural flow to each day. An on-call [...]

On The Record Any way you spin it, a documentary featuring Greensboro’s role in the Chitlin’ Circuit remains unfinished By Billy Ingram “Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging [...]

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) A random fact (because it’s clear you collect them): Butterflies taste with their feet. As the social butterfly of the zodiac — and one plagued by an ever-wagging tongue [...]

A couple breathes life into an old downtown Asheboro building By Cassie Bustamante Photographs by Amy Freeman     Right: Photograph by Lauren Brooks of Hello Cheetah Photography and Monclay, LLC [...]