"Regardless of how the night turns out, it’ll be hard for the Television Academy to hand out awards to anyone that doesn’t deserve it. I’m sure they’ll try anyway, though, in true awards show fashion, at 8 p.m. on NBC and Peacock."
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The Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership launched “Save The Music” last year, and is giving local artists a platform to perform outside of businesses on Franklin Street. This past week, Pajama Day, Wake Moody and Dan Kelo all performed for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, showcasing their unique and diverse styles of music.
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Three WXYC student DJs were featured on a New York radio show alongside UNC linguistics professor J. Michael Terry.
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The Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Committee has retuned with New York-based polymedia artist Eto Otitigbe to speak about how he shows the intersections between race, art and science in his various creative projects.
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LAB! Theatre, a student theatre company, is virtually producing and broadcasting an original student play by senior Stuart Wilson, “One Foot Forward, One Foot Back" this weekend.
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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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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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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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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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“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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“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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“Sound of Metal'' excels both in the technical and emotional aspects of filmmaking. Its brilliant sound and film editing and its sharp writing complement the heartfelt performances by its talented cast.
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With a piece of sarcophagus, a pocket watch, and a portrait of an unidentified sex worker called “Peaches,” a student tour guide at the Ackland can create a conversation about telling time through art.
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