So the old Winston-Salem Warthogs are now the Dash. Hard to say it is much of an improvement over the Warthogs but perhaps with time, it may take on a better feel.

What does Winston-Salem need downtown to continue to give momentum in re-establishing downtown as the place to be? Well, here are some recommendations.

Technically any municipality can be called a city as long as they provide all of the essential services as required to manage it like police, health & sanitation and emergency services. Population is not supposed to be a factor so you can have a city as small as 8000 people in size or as large [...]

One thing I enjoyed living in the many cities I have had in my life is the ability to go to a museum to satisfy my intellectual curiosity. Whether it is the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto ON or the Frankfurt Art Gallery, or the Cummer Art Gallery in Jacksonville FL, I appreciate going to [...]

When I walk down Fourth St in Winston Salem, or drive through the small towns around North Carolina, I am saddened to see so many boarded up store fronts and empty streets. Obviously, it was not always this way. Downtowns were once the heart of these cities and towns but like most elsewhere in America [...]

Winston-Salem NC has a central library for the city located on Fifth St downtown. Historically, it is built on property that was the original Reynolds manor before the Reynolds moved to their country mansion on Reynolda Rd. It is a decent size building with all of the key components to what I deemed essential [...]

Tonight at the First Presbyterian Church downtown, the Piedmont Opera company is putting on a production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. The actual venue for the play is in the new “Building C” addition to the Church. This addition is more like an actual auditorium or theatre setting rather than as a formal [...]