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Musical Empowerment to host free music festival this Saturday

By Defne Önal | April 17

This Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Musical Empowerment will hold a free concert on Franklin Street for community engagement.  “We're hoping people ...

Column: Emmys spotlight — my predictions for television's biggest night

By Guillermo Molero | September 12

"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 ...

Column: Netflix needs to reassess its key audience — college students

By Arul Gundam | May 12

'Watching their work come to life': Long Story Shorts Festival takes the stage

By Hadley Chapman | October 31

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Column: Netflix's "The Chair" eerily parallels UNC's campus climate

By Charity Cohen | September 9

A guide to cultural events in Chapel Hill this summer

By Noah Robert Houser | May 27

With COVID-19 restrictions easing up, spring and summer events are coming back in full force. From concerts to art exhibitions, there are plenty of opportunities ...

UNC students commemorate end of unique year with senior pictures

By Avery Baker | May 2

As graduation steadily approaches, seniors are capturing their final moments at UNC through graduation pictures. Whether it's hiring a professional photographer ...

Save the Music profiles: these local musicians are creating their own sounds

By Charity Cohen | April 28

The Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership launched “Save The Music” last year, and is giving local artists a platform to perform outside of businesses ...

New York radio show The Harlem Connection features UNC professor and student DJs

By Sara Raja | April 28

Three WXYC student DJs were featured on a New York radio show alongside UNC linguistics professor J. Michael Terry.

Hanes Visiting Artist Eto Otitigbe lectures on art's role in social justice

By Maggie Dunn | April 25

The Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Committee has retuned with New York-based polymedia artist Eto Otitigbe to speak about how he shows the intersections ...

LAB! Theatre premieres student-written play about college senior challenges

By Valeria Cloës | April 22

LAB! Theatre, a student theatre company, is virtually producing and broadcasting an original student play by senior Stuart Wilson, “One Foot Forward, ...

What to Watch: Oscars Edition

By Guillermo Molero , Madison Ward and Ryan Phillips | April 20

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, ...

UNC MFA candidates find global implications in personal stories for Ackland exhibit

By Sophia Ramirez | April 15

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 ...

Put a poem in your pocket: Town of Carrboro celebrates April as poetry month

By Jane Wilson | April 15

“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 ...

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Grammy-nominated band Steep Canyon Rangers reflects on UNC origins, self-produced album

By Casey Meisel | April 15

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 ...

Crystal healing provides stepping stone for people looking to spirituality

By Greta Travaglia | April 14

Practitioners of crystals emphasize that they are not meant to replace medical treatment, but rather should be used to heal and connect with oneself.  ...

'Queen of disaster': star of disaster girl internet meme graduating from UNC

By Lucy Smithwick | April 13

“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 ...

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UNC Process Series presents virtual reading of play about life after climate crisis

By Sara Raja | April 12

“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 ...

UNC junior Benjamin Carter writes and produces first album

By Noah Robert Houser | April 11

“Although Benjamin is a soft-spoken person, he possesses a big booming bass voice with growing solo depth,” Timothy W. Sparks said. “Benjamin is ...

Oscars Spotlight: “Sound of Metal” is a touching, technically tantalizing tale

By Guillermo Molero | April 7

“Sound of Metal'' excels both in the technical and emotional aspects of filmmaking. Its brilliant sound and film editing and its sharp writing complement ...