November 2021

The Naked Truth How I really feel about birthday suits   By David Claude Bailey “Dad! Put your shirt on,” my daughter scolds as we leave the beach at Zahara de los Atunes, a shoreside [...]

November Almanac By Ashley Wahl   November is the rush of wind through leaves, the rush of leaves through wind, a cradle song before a long night’s sleep. In the garden, the unblinking [...]

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 [...]