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(04/20/11 8:26pm)
Dr. Sachin Gupta moved to Cary eight months ago after working for several years as an emergency room physician in Florida. Entering a traditionally cottage industry, Gupta never considered starting his own private practice.
(04/14/11 8:38pm)
A Yale University student died in a chemistry laboratory machine shop Tuesday, leading university laboratories nationwide to examine their safety regulations.
(04/05/11 8:11pm)
Not many months go by for junior Mike Mistarz without a doctor visit. He’s had a jaw pain that’s taken him to seven different specialists without a diagnosis.
(03/15/11 8:38pm)
Doctors are increasingly trading paper charts for digital ones, and UNC’s leading the transition through two different efforts.
(02/14/11 9:14pm)
Several years ago Fran Gallagher responded to a house call while working as an emergency medical technician in Hartford, Conn. The patient was having trouble breathing.
(02/07/11 9:15pm)
Due to a reporting error, the story “School of the Arts may raise tuition” incorrectly spelled Matt Horvat’s name. This story has been changed to reflect these changes. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
(04/15/10 4:32am)
To celebrate UNC’s last day of classes, female singer St. Vincent and local band The Love Language will be performing in Memorial Hall.
(04/15/10 4:27am)
Correction (April 16 12:24 a.m.): Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the year Kanye West performed at Duke. It was 2004. The story has been changed to reflect the correction. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
(04/13/10 3:17am)
More than 300 UNC musicians will grace Memorial Hall tonight with the familiar strains of “Carmina Burana” and the entirely new piece “Dysfunctional.”This performance is the world premiere of UNC professor Stephen Anderson’s piano concerto “Dysfunctional.”“Carmina” by Carl Orff, first performed in 1937, is one of the most recognizable 20th century pieces. Portions of it appear in sports drink commercials, beer commercials and movies, including “Jackass: The Movie” and “Excalibur.”
(03/24/10 5:09am)
Musical prodigies prompted well-deserved standing ovations for their fresh takes on the art of presenting symphonies and concertos Tuesday night. The Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, composed of players all under the age of 27, sandwiched symphonies around 27-year-old pianist Lang Lang’s piano concerto with technique bordering perfection.The orchestra opened with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25. Prokofiev’s neo-classical piece, which it played with incredible dynamics and precision, had the melodic temperament of classical music with the frolicking nature of the 20th century. Most impressive from the youngsters were the unity and clarity of trills in passages close to a whisper. It was speedy and fresh, quick and light — the perfect appetizer.
(02/15/10 6:14am)
A man struggled into the room, his walk restricted by bandages covering him to the tips of his fingers. His face, the only exposed area of skin, was covered with sores and devoid of eyebrows or lashes.
(01/29/10 5:57am)
Pauper Players premieres its biggest fundraiser and its most popular annual show, “Broadway Melodies 2010,” tonight at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Cabaret. It runs through Tuesday.The show consists of four musical parodies written, directed and performed by students. The casts have had only two weeks to rehearse. The time crunch is stressful for those working to produce the show, but cast members said viewers won’t be disappointed.“It’s a big seller,” said show director Elissa Rumer. “It’s got a following. It’s known to be lighthearted and fun.”Here’s a look at the four parodies:“Robin Hood: The Musical”Written and Directed by Travis WrightCast size: 17Musical numbers: 7Time spent writing show: two weeksShow plot: A dance-focused number. Robin Hood’s lady Maid Marian runs the town while Robin Hood and sidekick Little John run off to strengthen their ambiguous relationship.Favorite number: “I See a River” from Urinetown — “The ensemble shows off their voices,” Travis Wright said.Words about show: “It’s every moral story of all time with a modern twist. A modern fairy tale,” Wright said.“House: The Musical”Written and Directed by Kevin ShafferCast size: 22Musical numbers: 6Time spent writing show: one monthShow plot: Following the storyline of every House episode, an admitted patient has a mysterious disease that only House can diagnose. Favorite number: “Ain’t it Good” from “Children of Eden”— “It will get everyone in the ‘House’ up and clapping,” Shaffer said.Words about show: “It’s funny and faithful to the source of material,” he said.
(01/19/10 4:54am)
Bill T. Jones presented a modern dance inspired byAbraham Lincoln without top hats, big beards or pennies Friday night at Memorial Hall.
(01/15/10 5:43am)
Dance fans and history buffs alike have been eagerly awaiting the UNC premiere of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s “Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray” at 8 p.m. tonight in Memorial Hall.The performance is a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and interprets how America’s history would have changed had Lincoln been in charge during the Reconstruction era. “Every once in a while we get a work that we’ve been sort of hearing about for a few years and looking forward to for so long, and to get to be in the audience of that is very exciting,” said Harry Kaplowitz, the marketing manager of Carolina Performing Arts.
(01/14/10 5:41am)
In addition to the traditional vandals from rival schools and bathroom visitors with Sharpies, UNC’s public structures face a new threat: the stencil graffiti artist.But unlike other nocturnal criminals, some stencil artists say they use the public surfaces as canvasses for the enjoyment of passersby, not just to share their favorite lyrics or boast about their exploits.Stencil graffiti with tag names, used to show the artist while still keeping their identity secret, have appeared around campus in the past few years. The most noticeable tags are “EC” and “Garuda.”The stencil movement decorating campus is inspired by European works.French artist Blek Le Rat is credited as having originated this form of street art in the ’80s. It has recently gained worldwide attention from London street artist Banksy’s work.The stencils appear more like an intricate painting than a piece produced with a bottle of spray paint. Blek Le Rat and Banksy exhibited subject matter that was just as controversial as the illegal nature of graffiti art. For instance, one of Banksy’s works in New Orleans portrays soldiers passing a TV out of a window and into a grocery cart.Chapel Hill stencil artist Garuda said he was first inspired to decorate a building after the Web site Stumbleupon.com led him to him to Banksy’s Web site.Garuda scopes out exteriors during the day and returns at night with a notebook in hand and a hidden spray paint bottle. He sticks the carefully crafted stencil to the surface with spray glue, coats it with spray paint and sneaks away until he can admire his work in the daylight. Applying the stencil takes only a few minutes, but designing the carefully crafted stencil takes hours.He estimates that he has five visible works around campus, though one drawing has been hidden by bushes planted in front of it, possibly strategically so, and another covered by a flier about swine flu. “I don’t really care, if just one person walking by gets to enjoy it, it’s worth it,” Garuda said.One of Garuda’s stencils shows Albert Hofmann, the developer of LSD, holding a rubber ducky instead of the LSD model Hofmann holds in his famous photograph. He also created a “Calvin and Hobbes” stencil and a stencil showing a monk on fire.While the stencil artists may believe their works to be an asset to a barren wall, the drawings create a chore for UNC’s maintenance team.The team power washes the wall with water and has to block the storm drains to prevent the paint chemicals from contaminating the runoff.“You do see some artistic graffiti, but they’re not part of the campus scenery so we remove all of it,” said Brandon Thomas, communications director for facility services.Artists must also constantly dodge law enforcement. For example, Montreal’s street artist Roadsworth claims he was charged with 53 counts of mischief in 2004, though he is now commissioned for his work. From the perspective of Beth Grabowski, a professor in the art department, the skilled taggers have an internal battle regarding the legalities and legitimacy of their activities.“This is part of what the artist has to contend with, whether they’re creating an interesting art or just graffiti or defacement,” she said. The stencil artists must hide behind their pen names to avoid prosecution, and therefore lose the personal glory, but this can be a perk for the artist. “I like being anonymous,” Garuda said. “It’s for everyone else to look at, and the attention doesn’t go to me personally. It’s the art.”Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
(11/17/09 4:49am)
Experiences abroad and creative talent came together Monday as students, alumni, faculty and staff displayed photos from their time around the globe.The photos, submissions for the 10th annual International Photography Competition hosted by the Center for Global Initiatives, will be on display in the FedEx Global Education Center atrium until Jan. 4.Winners spoke about their pieces at the reception Monday. The winning pictures will be featured in the center’s 2010 calendar, and the photographers will be given the 20-by-30 inch print of their picture that is on display.The calendars are expected to be available later this week.Participants submitted pictures online and supplied the context of the photo in a few sentences.A panel of five judges picked their favorites based on the picture quality, as well as the intrigue of the story behind it. “This was sort of the anti-National Geographic competition,” said Niklaus Steiner, director of the center. “We looked for the commonality rather than the exotic in the pictures.”The grand prize, 14 winner and 18 honorable mention photos were taken by people from a variety of majors, including journalism, geography and math. “We want to encourage people in underrepresented majors to submit their photographs so others can realize they can study abroad too,” said Beth-Ann Kutchma, the senior program officer at the center.Specifically, undergraduates majoring in science and math might not know about study abroad opportunities within their major.The subjects of the photos, both their locations and the emotions they evoked, were as diverse as the people behind the lens.Professor Afroz Taj was visiting family in India when he snapped a winning photograph of his hired car head-to-head with a bull cart in an alley.“He was waiting for me to move, I was waiting for him to move, and that’s how time passes,” he said, speaking about the Indian traffic.The grand prize photograph, taken by geography major Cameron Taylor, portrayed a Malawian bride dancing in her village’s wedding dress with a single, humble streamer decorating the patio.On display to its right, philosophy major Bela Fishbeyn’s bleak and emotional picture featured an empty tunnel that Holocaust victims walked through on their way to execution. “One of the things I love about a photograph is that you take a picture of something that’s really not beautiful and make it beautiful,” Fishbeyn said. Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
(11/12/09 6:07am)
Charles Dickens is known for creating memorable literary characters through his words. But the grouchy-voiced Scrooge that comes to mind may have been created through the influence of performances and illustrations of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” not his original writings.Likewise, “Nicholas Nickleby” is another classic that has been manifested visually on the stage and in drawings, including here at UNC.The connections among visual, literary and performing arts in Dickens’ time are recreated and celebrated on campus this month in a showcase of art, manuscripts and a performance relating to Dickens.“The Illustrated World of Nicholas Nickleby” is a collaboration between PlayMakers Repertory Company, the Ackland Art Museum and the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library. The program is designed to maximize the impact of cultural events on campus.Dickens presented the book in episodes, releasing a few chapters and illustrations at a time.He would tell his illustrators the premise of the episode before he wrote it, and the artist would work on the drawing while he worked on the writing.“Nicholas Nickleby,” which PlayMakers premiered Wednesday, is the biggest production in the theater’s history, with 25 actors playing more than 150 characters.Rob Colby, coordinator of academic programs at the Ackland, said PlayMakers approached him about having joint programming through the museum.After looking at the Ackland’s collection, Colby found 16 drawings, sketches and prints in the museum’s permanent collection from the early Victorian era, including works by Dickens’ chief illustrators and inspirers.“We have such a rich collection,” Colby said. “It was a wonderful thing to find the connection with an artist working in collaboration with Dickens.”Drawings by Dickens’ illustrators George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne, who went by “Phiz,” and other works illuminating the print-making process comprise the Dickens installment. The exhibit, which also includes a print from the classic “Oliver Twist,” will run through Dec. 6.Wilson Library is currently displaying a complete collection of the original serial editions of “Nicholas Nickleby” and two early theatrical adaptations of the novel. The exhibit runs through Jan. 2.“It is rare that we identify an exact connection,” said Nic Brown, director of communications at the Ackland, of the theater’s performance and the University’s existing resources. “But we hope this can be an example.”To further enhance the Nickleby experience, English professor Marc Napolitano will give a presentation at 1 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Ackland. Napolitano, who did the research that led to the connections of the three art forms, will speak about the installment as a part of the Ackland’s “Lunch with One” program.Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
(11/02/09 4:10am)
After having to repeatedly change his camera lens to be able to see Che Guevara through his viewfinder, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda was so startled by the leader’s expression that he physically stepped back as he hit the shutter.That expression Korda captured has been digitized, painted, silk screened and tattooed into 20th century pop culture and is the most often reproduced photograph in history, said art historian, collector and UNC alumnus David Craven in his talk about Cuban art Sunday in Hanes Art Center.Craven spoke about what made that iconic photograph and other politician portraits successful, as well as the Cuban posters from the ’60s and ’70s during the Cuban Revolution.Cuban posters from the ’60s and ’70s donated by Craven, which include three variations of the Guevara portrait, are on display at the Ackland Art Museum through Dec. 6.Cuban cinema and art produced during the revolution pose problems that the audience must solve. At that time, the art shifted from instructive to conversation-provoking, which was the main focus of Craven’s talk, “Revolutionary Art or a Revolution in Art?”The art portrays the politics of the time as loose and lively, compared to the controlling aspects many Western viewers expected to see in the works, he said.Politician portraits are always about more than the politician. They also convey the figure’s ideologies, Craven said.Subtleties such as the subject’s face angle and gaze portray a politician’s ideals.Guevara’s portrait is powerful because it ennobles, enables and empowers without suggesting a specific action from the viewer, Craven said.Encouraging critical thinking from the viewer and not using visual propaganda was a common theme Craven saw in Cuban posters.“One of the great things about Cuban cinema is there isn’t a happy ending,” Craven said.Cuban art poses a problem that the audience must solve. It’s about what you bring to the image, he said.The posters used minimalism and pop art to both celebrate the revolution and point out its weaknesses.Strong simple images represented complex ethical ideals in movie posters.“I can hardly believe movie posters are so remarkable there and so mundane here,” said Michael Caplow, an audience member and professor of biochemistry and biophysics. “For a less developed country, they have a far greater aesthetic sense.”Craven’s talk kicks off the Latin American Film Festival Sunday to Nov. 22, which includes multiple lectures and screenings across the Piedmont area, including Greensboro, Raleigh and Durham.Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
(10/16/09 3:42am)
S-U-C-C-E-S-S. That’s what the Lab! Theatre’s latest production, supported by the Department of Dramatic Art, hopes to spell.“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” opens at 8:15 p.m. today in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre with a public gala following the show. Performances will run through Tuesday night.Although the shows are free, those interested can stop by the box office for a ticket before each performances.The 90-minute show is the first musical from Lab! in three years, said Erin Hanehan, the show’s director.Most company actors have a background in both music and theater, but performers come from a variety of majors, not exclusively music or drama.“People who don’t typically like musicals would enjoy this,” Hanehan said. “It’s easy to swallow.”Lab! officials said they think the show will have a good turnout based on the musical’s popularity on Broadway and in a national tour.The play was conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin.The story follows six middle school students during their participation in a spelling bee.Improvisation makes each showing unique for the audience as well as the actors. The vice principal and host characters are mostly unscripted.Characters also interact with audience volunteers.“I want the audience to leave feeling they don’t know what was scripted and what wasn’t,” Hanehan said. “I’ve encouraged the actors to surprise themselves in rehearsal.”UNC student Phil Denny serves as musical director for the show, and the cast has had extensive rehearsals to practice their songs.Hanehan said the actors have had less than a week working with the orchestra, directed by Daniel Stellini.Stephen Ashley, the publicity coordinator for the Department of Dramatic Art, said he was excited about the buzz around campus.“This is a really great opportunity to see quality theater for free,” Ashley said.Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
(10/08/09 3:41am)
Moroccan-born artist Hamid Kachmar weaves cultures together in his multimedia pieces, which will be exhibited in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center beginning today.Kachmar will kick off the 31-piece exhibit tonight with a public reception.Most people think of Morocco as an Arabic country, Kachmar said, but he wants the public to see its native African culture. Most Moroccans are African and speak the native Berber tongue, as does Kachmar.“I do not want people just to look at my work and say ‘Oh, Moroccan art.’ I want them to read it on their own and have their own mystical, spiritual relationship with it,” Kachmar said.He uses contemporary Western display techniques, such as canvases, as vehicles to present the Berber culture to Western audiences.Pulling from Berber culture, Kachmar said he is influenced by the local rituals and ceremonies.Earth tones, patterns and symbols from the Berber alphabet also reflect his native culture.Kachmar shapes materials including wood, goatskin and silk screen to create his mixed media pieces. As is common in Berber culture, he carved wood and wove textiles to create some of these pieces.The weaving is also a metaphor for the connection between all cultures of the world, Kachmar said.The Moroccan influence present in his works ties into the Stone Center’s theme this year of “Passion and Remembrance: Dislocation/Relocation/Diaspora.”The fall programming for the center sets to explore the contemporary and historical movements of people and the social dynamics that tend to define their daily lives, said Olympia Friday, public relations officer for the Stone Center. Additional guidance for exhibit visitors will be provided by audio tour company Guide by Cell. The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 4.For Kachmar the process of creating the art is more valuable than the outcome. “When I’m working it’s like a journey and when I’m done it’s like a turn back,” Kachmar said, adding that after a work is completed, he is disconnected from it.“I go far away into time and space and when I’m done I come back and say, ‘Here I am again.’”Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.