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The new Visit Winston-Salem African American Arts & Culture Guide made its debut at the recent National Black Theatre Festival. The 24-page, full-color publication is designed as a companion to Visit Winston-Salem’s Annual Visitor Guide and...

Butler to perform at Reynolds Auditorium Jerry Butler, music’s “The Ice Man,” will be inducted into The Hit Parade Hall of Fame on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. at Reynolds Memorial Auditorium, 301 Hawthorne Road. Butler and 70s chart-topping...

Winston-Salem native Fay Hauser-Price will screen two of her short films during the National Black Theatre Festival’s film festival. Hauser-Price is a veteran actress whose credits include “Roots: The Next Generation,” “The Young and The...

The Sawtooth School for Visual Art and Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts have joined in a new cooperative agreement that is designed to benefit their respective members and supporters. Delta Arts members are now able to register for Sawtooth classes...

Before the Ramones or the Sex Pistols, there was Death, a punk rock band comprised of three African American brothers from Detroit. Charlotte filmmaker Jeff Howlett chronicles the forgotten roots of punk rock music in the new documentary “A Band...

UNCG’s 2013-14 University Performing Arts Series is offering a celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou and a hip-hop competition for students punctuated by a performance by hip-hop artist MC Lyte. The series, managed by the UNCG School of Music, Theatre...

The Theatre Alliance is preparing to re-stage the award-winning musical “Avenue Q” from July 19–28. “Avenue Q” is a musical about the lively and off-the-wall characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of their lives. It...

Local artist Leo Rucker is getting a lot of exposure as of late. The Delta Arts Center is currently hosting an exhibit of some of his murals. Next month,  the Sawtooth School for Visual Art – in conjunction with the Arts Council of...

The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, 390 South Liberty St., has opened “Kaleidoscape,”  a crocheted, climbing art installation created by renowned Japanese textile artist Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam. The innovative art playscape has been...

A number of prominent black Republicans from North Carolina were on hand June 19 as U.S. House and Senate leaders helped to dedicate the Frederick Douglass monument in Emancipation Hall of the U. S. Capitol. The monument resides alongside those...

Dr. James Ewers, a native of  Winston-Salem, has donated several of his sports accolades to the Society for the Study of Afro-American History. Dr. Ewers was a top rated tennis player at Atkins High School and Johnson C. Smith University. Along...

Mark Maxwell and Timothy Young and their family are featured in a video produced by the Campaign for Southern Equality and Freedom to Marry. Maxwell and Young were married in Washington, D.C., where same sex unions are legal, earlier this year...

Guitar legend Buddy Guy will be in concert on Friday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. at The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro. Guy is best known as a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound. In the 1960s, Guy was a member of Muddy Waters’ band and was a house...

In addition to the music, cultural exhibits, vendors and other attractions at Saturday’s Ninth Annual Triad Juneteenth Africana Festival, art by woodworker LaVon Williams and other artists will be on display. The festival will be held from 11...

The Friends of John Coltrane, Inc. will be hosting an evening of entertainment at Centennial Station, 121 S. Centennial St. in High Point, on Saturday, July 13, beginning at 6 p.m. “Showtime in Harlem: A Celebration of the Cotton Club” will be a...

Susan Ruskin has been named Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), effective July 1. She has been interim dean for the 2012-13 year. Ruskin has taught producing at UNCSA since 2009. She...

Winston-Salem’s J. McLain Callahan will release his first novel, “Collisions,” on June 19 during an events from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 5–7 p.m. at the Chatham Building, 304 W. Fourth St. The book will be on sale for $11.99 at the release parties,...

Tickets are now on sale for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ Music Academy of the American South (MAAS), a weekend festival that will be held from June 14 – June 16 at UNC School of the Arts and Old Salem Museums &...