A brand-new food hall in Roanoke just landed a very big prize. Former Austin barbecue pitmaster Brendan Lamb is moving his Austin-style Smiley’s Craft Barbecue to the new Oak Street Food & Brew hall, ...

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Dear Smiley: I enjoyed stories about pousse-cafés at Nick's Bar, and I would like to share my tale. A few decades ago, I worked the graveyard shift (11 p.m. to 5 a.m.) Saturday nights at Port of Call.

A smiley face says something to the viewer: happy, good, yes, positive. You can find the playful design printed on bouncy balls, T-shirts, bumper stickers, socks. You ...

In a video installation by James Joyce, a yellow circle rotates as two black ovals and a curved line tumble at the bottom, thwarted by gravity. Watching the video, Perseverance in the Face of ...

An original Harvey Ball smiley face (image: The World Smiley Foundation) In the 1994 Robert Zemeckis film, Forrest Gump stumbles into the history books as he runs across the country. At one point, he ...