Triad City Beat This Week: July 29, 2015

Patrick McDonnell has a vision for re-animating Greensboro. But will the city get out of its own way and allow something magic to happen? Editor in Chief Brian Clarey hop-scotches around South Elm Street with the iconoclastic urban planner in this week’s Triad City Beat cover story.

NEWS

• Plaintiffs rest their case in federal trial of NC election law

• UNCG takes time with Aycock Auditorium renaming

• High Point Journal: NAACP youth conference tackles internalized racism

 

OPINION

• Editorial: The usual suspects

• It Just Might Work: Online food forage maps

• Fresh Eyes: Hispanic grown

• Editor’s Notebook: Gotham

 

COLUMNS

• Citizen Green: An urban homestead rises in south Greensboro

• Good Sport: Foosball World Cup at Old Salem

• Wirtheim: Cigarettes ease the awkwardness for an outsider in Camel City

 

CULTURE

• Food: Korean steamed rolls, kimchee pancake delight

• Barstool: The Tap at West End

• Art: Tortured artist paints American mythology

• Music: Heard a rumble, will travel

• Stage & Screen: Humble theater, huge show from Stained Glass

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