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A portion of the Depot Street Mural in progress
Arts, Diversity & Inclusion

Depot Street Renaissance Mural

Discover Depot Street During the late 19th and 20th centuries, the area surrounding R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s manufacturing facilities was known as the Depot Street neighborhood. Depot Street (now Patterson Avenue) was one of the first prestigious Black neighborhoods in Winston-Salem and a thriving hub…
Eclectic decor in the Wherehouse Hotel.
Arts

Wherehouse Art Hotel Winston-Salem Offers Artful Lodging

It’s a Monday morning in May, and Haydee Thompson has had a full house of guests—a couple wrapping up their extended honeymoon and a family from Portugal visiting for graduation ceremonies at Wake Forest University. They all made their way here—East 3rd Street in downtown…
Arts

Black Horse Studio: Innovation and the Art of Photography

It’s snowing at home in cozy Winston-Salem. But Lee Runion and Jennifer Bostic could care less: they are on a 50-foot yacht floating in the Gulf of Mexico, right off the coast of sunny Florida. The weather couldn’t be better, and the view isn’t bad…
Arts

Bailey Park Water Wall

You will always find an answer in the sound of water. – Chuang Tzu The words of Tzu now adorn the new Bailey Park water wall, a community development initiative supported by local foundations and corporations to enhance the beauty and enjoyment of Bailey Park. The…
Arts, Community, Lifestyle

Innovation & Cinema: Film Conversations

Lawren Desai was interested in starting a film series. The owner of a/perture cinema in downtown Winston-Salem, Desai admired Science on Screen, which began in 2005 at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts. In that series, movies serve as jumping-off points for experts to…

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