Avant Greensboro

06/15/2015

Looking for something to do Friday night? http://www.avantgreensboro.com/category/entertainment/sounds/jonah-parzen-johnsons-gonna-take-over-new-york-pizza-this-weekend.html

ShareTweetArmed with little more than his baritone saxophone and analogue synthesizer2, Brooklyn based musician Jonah Parzen-Johnson is poised to take over Greensboro when he performs at New York Pizza this Friday, June 19. Parzen-Johnsons first full album, Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow…

05/26/2015

Interested in the dance studios in town? Check out our article on Artistic Motion: http://www.avantgreensboro.com/category/feature/greensboro-dance-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this.html

ShareTweetGrowing up in a town without any dance classes, I still dreamed of becoming a ballerina, despite the fact that I can barely walk in a straight line, routinely open cabinets into my face, and am about as graceful as Big Bird after a few martinis. I was absolutely convinced that I’d marry Mi…

03/24/2015

What's Valerie Neiman reading? http://www.avantgreensboro.com/category/feature/books-by-the-bed-whats-valerie-nieman-reading.html

09/30/2014

Looking for a dance class? http://www.avantgreensboro.com/category/entertainment/lets-dance-kearns-dance-project.html

Lauren Kearns will teach a 2 hr technique & repertory class October 18, 12-2:00 at the Dance Project, Greensboro Cultural Center.

06/27/2014

Our apologies to anyone trying to access our site! We've come down with a serious case of the hiccups and hope to be back up & crackalackin' soon. In the meantime, tell us: what do you hope to see on the site when we've fully recovered? We need to talk. It's been a while.

03/14/2014

A food truck that sells cake?? Yes please! http://www.avantgreensboro.com/category/eatsboro/baker-bean-pure-awesomeness.html

ShareTweetAnyone who knows me knows that I am a serious cake fanatic. I could work an entire vacation around cake pit stops, and I’ll happily forego proper food in place of cake. Imagine the happiness that I felt upon learning that the lady who made the cake for a friend’s wedding, the cake that I[c...

12/16/2013

Let's get sentimental, love. What were the best songs written by a local artist & released in 2013? Songs that have defined this year, songs that you might always carry with you?

11/13/2013

A Greensboro filmmaker + The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra + outer space + IMAX = "In Saturn's Rings" by Stephen van Vuuren.

van Vuuren plans to bring his space film to the Westover Church on Jan. 17 to record with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra performing “Adagio for Strings.”

11/07/2013

Tune in to Avant On Air tonight for the scoop. 7:00-9:00pm on WUAG 103.1 or stream here http://tunein.com/tuner/?StationId=39270

We’ll be joined by Suzy McCalley, founder of The Breathing Room in Winston Salem. They are having their grand opening this Saturday. Then, we’ll hear from the man himself- Mr. Brian Clarey. Yeah, he...

10/21/2013

Open call for writers! Anyone in Greensboro with an interest in local arts that could confidently write a review for dance performances is encouraged to email our editor at [email protected]. We'd like to send someone to cover the NC Dance Festival in Greensboro on November 1st & 2nd. Excellent grammar desirable; awesomeness required.

Emerging choreographers: submit your work for consideration for the 2014 Audience Choice Show, held in January in downtown Greensboro. See eligibility requirements and instructions in our left side menu: "Audience Choice Show FAQ."

10/20/2013

Ever wanted to move out to the country, buy a humongous plot of beautiful land, and charge people admission to have the $%! # scared out of them by your 100 employees, who feed them funnel cake before chasing them with chainsaws? Ah, the American dream. One Greensboro man followed his and now his haunted attraction is #1 in the nation.

With 100 employees and an enormous production, Woods of Terror in Greensboro has become the #1 Haunted Attraction in the US and a local Halloween tradition.

10/16/2013

Oh, word? Brandon Wise and the Scorchin' Sons are releasing their album tomorrow, but there's a free song download to score in the mean time.

9 track album