Arts, Music & Culture

Watauga County’s Ray Hicks drew national acclaim for his storytelling skills focusing on the adventures of a poor but clever boy named Jack. Hicks passed away 20 years ago. Other raconteurs have kept the tales alive, but the High Country way of telling them faces an uncertain future, and changes in the Appalachian region could determine the outlook for this centuries-old tradition.

Piedmont Craftsmen celebrates its 60th annual fair this weekend in Winston-Salem.

Actor, humorist, and author Nick Offerman is best known as the character Ron Swanson on TV's Parks & Recreation which aired for seven seasons on NBC. This weekend he’ll perform an evening of deliberative talking, mirth, and music at the Tanger Center in Greensboro.

This month marks 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, was kidnapped and brutally murdered.

Thousands of people will fill the streets of Uptown Lexington this Saturday to celebrate just one thing: barbecue.

When Oklahoma’s Muscogee Creek Nation government abruptly muzzled the tribe’s hard-hitting news outlet, journalist Angel Ellis charged headfirst into a historic battle to restore her tribe’s press freedoms.