The 2021 Oscars awards will showcase a diverse selection of films April 25th. Some notable films that the Academy nominated are Judas and the Black Messiah, Nomadland and Sound of Metal. With theaters being closed this year, viewers can catch these films or various streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBO Max.
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"It has taken the lives of Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Soon Chung Park, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue and Delania Yaun for me to realize I have robbed myself of stories of my grandmother’s life."
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“I think the most exciting part is seeing the way love is portrayed in different decades, because now I feel like love is portrayed in a solid, social media sense, and you see this idealized version of love and you forget what it was like before Instagram and Tinder and Bumble and all those dating apps,” Ainsley Cogburn said. “The natural progression of love throughout the decades is really interesting to see.”
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In media ranging from pencil and oil on canvas to fluorescent light and projected video, the selected works of the students illustrate that, in the words of Audre Lorde, the personal is political.
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“I mean to me, poetry is not just about poems, it’s about the creative impulse,” Fred Joiner, Carrboro’s poet laureate since 2019 said. “I think Carrboro prides itself on being a town that celebrates creativity, that celebrates discovery and learning.”
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"As a plus-sized Black woman in an industry dominated by whiteness and toxic diet culture, Lizzo stands her ground as a leader in diversifying the music industry."
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Steep Canyon Rangers, a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band based in Asheville, started as a group of friends at UNC during the 1990s. The band recently produced an album on its own, and the experience went so well that the members plan to do so again in the future.
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“It’s about physically lending your support to two communities that mean a lot to North Carolina, which is Habitat and the arts community,” junior Claire Hyde said. “They’re all awesome pieces and people would be happy to buy them, but the important part is knowing that all your dollars are going towards Habitat.”
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The last time I was this confident about a film winning Best Picture was in 2019, when “Roma” so magnificently captured the story of a live-in housekeeper in a middle-class family in Mexico. Like “Nomadland,” the film was an authentic, deeply emotional and beautifully constructed tale.
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"Fashion is a choice, and we should be doing everything to empower each other, not tear each other down."
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Judas and the Black Messiah is a powerful film, and that should be no surprise — for “anywhere there’s people, there’s power.” (9.5/10)
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As the weather changes, students are trading in their Zoom sweats for new outfits.
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Practitioners of crystals emphasize that they are not meant to replace medical treatment, but rather should be used to heal and connect with oneself.
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“We all have different issues that we have to deal with and I think that’s what Arts Access is about: making everything accessible, and realizing that we all come from a different point with our health and our lives,” artist Kathryn DeMarco said.
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“It was just pretty neat just to see this house fully engulfed in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Mebane, but not for bad reasons,” Dave Roth said. “So, we got a lot of pictures of it."
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Mallik is in the middle of the pre-sale process for her debut novel, "Endless: A Villain's Love Story," with help from the Creator Institute and New Degree Press.
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“I love getting potatoes on the side with burgers, but now because of (COVID-19) potatoes taste like dirt to me,” sophomore Alvin Dinh said. “I can taste the dirt and oil, and it makes me nauseous.”
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When I was 10 years old, I put a set of tickets to the Fearless Tour at the top of my Christmas list. Much to my surprise, on Christmas morning, I didn’t wake up to a spread of Taylor Swift merch and tickets under the tree; rather I had a red folder with a glaring picture of Justin Bieber spread across the front. Inside, lay two tickets to Taylor’s tour — in that Justin Bieber folder I still have to this day only as a cruel joke from my family. "Fearless" then became the first concert I ever went to, and I haven’t forgotten anything about it to this day.
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“They’re facing the fact that they can’t stay where they are because it’s simply getting to be too hot and chaos is beginning to take over in North Carolina, so they’ve just got to get out,” playwright Jim Grimsley said. “I’m trying to write about a world in which everything that we know right now has been thrown up in the air by the fact that we didn’t pay any attention to the notion of global warming.”
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“Although Benjamin is a soft-spoken person, he possesses a big booming bass voice with growing solo depth,” Timothy W. Sparks said. “Benjamin is a very sensitive artist with a keen intellect and benevolent spirit.”
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