Avant on Air
Share Tweet Tonight marks the first night of Avant on Air, Avant Greensboro’s radio counterpart. It’ll be on WUAG from 7-9PM and this will be a regular occurrence. This week, it’ll be me (Avalon),...
View ArticleLazy Cat Benefit Round II
Share Tweet [See image gallery at www.avantgreensboro.com] A dear friend and fellow artist is in need of surgery…. which he’ll now be getting thanks to the wonderful folks who either invested their...
View ArticleCFBG’s Summer Music Series
Share Tweet This is more than slightly exciting, fellow GSO residents. This is badass. CFBG (Campaign For a Better Greensboro) is hosting a series of summer music shows, starting June 6th. Yes....
View ArticleGPAC Charrette – What’s Your 2 Cents?
Share Tweet Proposed GPAC locations. Click to enlarge. Even though it won’t help the city pay for the controversial $60mil Greensboro Performing Arts Center, the GPAC task force wants Greensboro’s 2¢...
View ArticleHurricane Relief Via Beers & Vinyl
Share Tweet The loudest city in North Carolina has heart. Max Benbassat, founder of Campaign For a Better Greensboro (CFBG), used to call Queens, NY home. After Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Northeast,...
View Article8 Points. Busking Is Not Panhandling/ Let ‘Em Play
Share Tweet The City Council will be modifying the ordinance concerning busking (playing music, performing, dancing, etc for tips on the sidewalk- but not blocking the sidewalk) downtown. Before you...
View ArticlePrime Movers 2014
Share Tweet By John Sanford Friedrich Nobody pursues modern dance as a way to get rich or even famous outside the arts community. Thus it comes as little surprise that the students of UNCG’s...
View ArticleFall Dances 2014
Share Tweet By John Sanford Friedrich The decision to merge the departments of music, theatre and dance into a single school was not without controversy. This year’s Fall Dances, however, shows that...
View ArticleA New York Night
Share Tweet This Friday was all about New York. The plan was to go to my friend Avalon’s going away party at 7 (she’s moving to NY) and then attend Jonah Parzen-Johnson’s show at New York Pizza around...
View Article90+ Activity Ideas for Quarantined Families
ShareTweet Co-authored by Halle Dickerson, age 12 With an escalating pandemic, a Shelter-In-Place order recently issued, and county-wide virtual schooling, many families in Greensboro and the Triad are...
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