DTH at a Glance: We have holidays with music and holidays for diamond patterns

Happy Turkey Prep Day, UNC! Here’s the news to keep you entertained and informed on the car ride home for the weekend:

National Jukebox Day and Argyle Day have something in common — they’re both national holidays. Anyone can submit an idea for a holiday, even if it’s small.
Despite the chilly weather, business is heating up this week with the opening of the new Ben & Jerry’s at Southpoint Mall and further development in Carolina Square.
COLUMN: “The bonds formed through shared suffering run deeply.” Kirk Meyer shares how losing together is what makes sports worth it.
UNC women’s soccer has now graduated two classes that never won a national championship. But despite their NCAA Sweet 16 loss on Sunday, the team is proud knowing “they came into the game with a seriousness.”

UNC and North Carolina State University researchers are working to develop a skin patch that battles melanoma. Though the patch is still far from clinical trials, it’s proof that student research proposals can have life beyond paper.
Two students from UNC are among the twelve recipients of the Mitchell Scholarship, a fellowship that funds graduate studies in Ireland, making UNC the only school with multiple students win the scholarship this year.
“It’s just a reminder of our daily efforts just to break down transphobic rhetoric every day, so that the atmosphere that allows for the violence to be perpetrated can be dismantled.” The UNC community observed Transgender Day of Remembrance on Monday.

“It’s a really good holiday show about family and appreciating who you have.” Lorelei Canne’s adaption of Little Women is coming to the Sonorous Road Theatre and Film Studio on the heels of Thanksgiving.
Kelela brought a new element of R&B to Durham in last Friday’s concert, where she performed songs from her debut album Take Me Apart. “She sings about what it means love and be loved, something that we can all relate to.”
The Art of Giving exhibit has returned to the Hillsborough Gallery of Art for another year, giving patrons the opportunity to buy something unique and handmade.