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Aug 7, 2024 | 
wyndhamchampionship.com | Rob Goodman
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Due to the forecast for dangerous weather conditions developing from the remnants of Hurricane Debby during tomorrow’s first round of the Wyndham Championship, fans will not be permitted on the Sedgefield Country Club grounds on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. Current plans are for the Wyndham Championship to begin as scheduled at 6:50 a.m. Thursday without fans in attendance. Play will continue as long as conditions allow.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
yesweekly.com | Rob Goodman
Caption: Leaders from across Greensboro, as well as First Tee – Central Carolina, join Wyndham executives and tournament officials following the unveiling of artist Vincent Ballentine’s commemorative mural honoring civil rights pioneers, The Greensboro Six. The mural is located at historic Gillespie Golf Course, which today serves as the headquarters for First Tee – Central Carolina.(Image Courtesy: John Gillooly)GREENSBORO, N.C. (Aug.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
yesweekly.com | Rob Goodman
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Wyndham Championship has a new official bourbon: Statesville, N.C.’s Southern Star, the tournament announced today.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
yesweekly.com | Rob Goodman
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (April 18, 2024) – The nationwide search for an artist to help honor civil rights pioneers The Greensboro Six has officially narrowed to three finalists: Vincent Ballentine of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Raman Bhardwaj of Greensboro, N.C. and Abel Jackson of Charlotte, N.C.Selected by a committee of key community figures and organizations, more than 50 artists from across the nation submitted qualifications for consideration.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
wyndhamchampionship.com | Rob Goodman
Irwin Smallwood was a golf writer, sports editor and managing editor of the Greensboro News & Record, formerly the Greensboro Daily News, where he worked for more than four decades. Smallwood passed away March 9, 2024 at the age of 98. The Wyndham Championship media center was named in his honor in 2004. He spoke in the media center at the 2023 Wyndham Championship and reminisced about his early memories of the tournament in the video below.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
yesweekly.com | Rob Goodman
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (Feb. 29, 2024) – Plans for a new Greensboro public arts project honoring civil rights pioneers, The Greensboro Six, took a major step forward today with the formal launch of a nationwide search for the mural’s artist.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Ahmet Altan |Rob Goodman
Check out the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs from Jan. 15-21, 2024!When five-year-old Monolith arrives from the Philippines to join his mother in Canada he lashes out, attacking her and destroying his new home in the linked short story collection Reuniting with Strangers. The characters in Reuniting with Strangers are all dealing with feelings of displacement and estrangement caused as a result of migrating to Canada seeking opportunity.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
reviewcanada.ca | Rob Goodman |Astra Taylor |David Shribman
This is an age of misery but also of mystery. Inflation and insurrection, populism and protest, demagoguery and disillusion, turbulence and tyranny — the annals of affliction are full. Abundant, too, are the puzzling questions: Can the centre hold? Is there a centre at all anymore? Can the democracies of North America be governed? Will democracy itself survive?
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
yesweekly.com | Rob Goodman
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Ten-time CMA Musician of the Year Mac McAnally will host “Margaritas and Memories” with special guest Scotty Emerick at Piedmont Hall Wed., Dec. 6, 2023. In addition to his lifelong work in country music, McAnally spent decades sharing the stage with the legendary Jimmy Buffett who died Sept. 1, 2023. Always immediately to Buffett’s right on the concert stage, McAnally could be better known for his partnership with the late tropical singer-songwriter than his solo career.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
quillandquire.com | Kim Richard Nossal |Rob Goodman
Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of who we, in Canada, all live alongside has never been more relevant. Two new books address the proverbial elephant in the room that has, since Trumpism and the historical forces he represents, been rampaging rather than twitching, bellowing rather than grunting.
