Garrison Pulley Staff Writer Though the sport of soccer is known more as an outdoor sport, the past month at the Kaplan Center has seen the universal game be taken indoors with an intramural soccer league. The season is going into its final week of regular season play. Each team gets to play in four games out of five weeks, with one of those … Continue reading Intramural Soccer League
Jared Lawrence Staff Writer Two stirring MFA thesis projects just went up in the Greensboro Project Space on West Lewis Street. The pieces by Caroline Bugby and Joyce Watkins King each focused in their own way on how much material we waste and where that waste goes. The artists’ pieces focused on the waste of industrial material and clothing respectively. The space provided by … Continue reading Fossiling the Tideline / Sewing in the Shadows: Disposable Garments, Disposable People?
Bryan Davis Staff Writer If you were present in Fleming Gymnasium the afternoon of March 9, then you know that UNCG’s Bailey Williams is the truth. After having just been named to the SoCon All-Conference Third team about a week earlier, the senior guard wreaked havoc on Brown University’s defense by scoring 27 points (including 15 in the fourth quarter) and dishing out … Continue reading Bailey Williams Looks Back on the Season and her Career
Sarah Swindell Staff Writer I was never much of a beer gal. It began at three years old where I mistook some beer for white grape juice, but that was a long time ago. Since then, I have grown to appreciate the value of the frothy fermented beverage. With my recent epiphany of the value of safely indulging in beer, North Carolina … Continue reading Cheers to NC Beers
Ross Kiefer A&E Editor April 12 marks the opening of a new comic book store in Greensboro. Ssalefish Comics has been providing Winston Salem’s comic book fans, readers and collectors with outstanding service for sometime now, and have decided to open a branch here in the Gate City. This new store marks a partnership between Ssalefish and Greensboro’s own comic book giant, ACME Comics. … Continue reading Winston-Salem based comic book store opens second location in Greensboro
Jack Payton and Zack Weaver Staff Writer and News Editor A small fire occurred in the UNCG auditorium on Tuesday, April 4, causing minor damage before being contained by UNCG faculty. During the dress rehearsal for UNCG Opera Theatre’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul, a malfunctioning light sparked, igniting a portion of the stage curtain. Professor David Holley, conductor of the … Continue reading Fire at UNCG Auditorium
Zackary Wiggins Staff Writer Congresswoman Maxine Waters represents California’s 43rd District which is in Los Angeles and was elected to Congress in 1991. She has gotten some recent fame due to her rather blunt criticism towards President Trump and Republicans in Congress. This long-standing politician has quickly emerged as a favorite to people of our generation because she is one of the few … Continue reading Our New Favorite Auntie Maxine
Teresa Dale Staff Writer Using oil on canvas to grapple with difficult subject matter such as traumatic childhood experiences and police brutality, UNCG grad student, Charles Williams, calls painting his ministry. Focusing on social issues from both a historical perspective, and from a personal one, Williams uses his paintings to engage with his audience on an emotional level. While studying here at UNCG, Williams … Continue reading Artist Weekly- Charles Williams
Sam Haw Staff Writer As if 2017 wasn’t strange enough, Financial Times has estimated vinyl to become a billion dollar industry for the first time since the 1980s. The sound storage medium has seen a mass increase in sales in the 2010s, with the aid of Record Store Day, vinyl subscription services like Vinyl Me, Please and that ridiculously overpriced record section at … Continue reading Embrace The Vinyl Frontier
Catie Byrne Features Editor On Thursday, April 6, from 6-7:30 p.m. in room 204 of the Curry Building, UNCG’s Women’s and Gender Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies department held the third portion of the Black Minds Matter workshop, Origins. Facilitated by UNCG sophomore, Lucia Sedda, and UNCG Alum, Femi Shittu, the goal of the event, as the WGS website statement … Continue reading Black Minds Matter
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