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A different kind of taxi hits the streets

By Tom Hartwell | August 19

July 20 - You might have seen him one of these summer evenings, gliding along Franklin Street on a bicycle with a rickshaw in tow, and maybe you pictured ...

Pizza place brings soccer fans together

By Matt Brooks | August 19

JUNE 22 - Who said Americans don't care about soccer? Try telling that to the crowd at Italian Pizzeria III on June 17, when West Franklin Street's ...

Graduation speaker receives varied reviews

By MAC MOLLISON | August 19

May 18 - The May 14 Commencement ceremony captured the spirit of the Carolina experience for 5,377 graduates and tens of thousands of excited family members. Wendy ...

Local legislative efforts fail to muster unified support

By STEPHEN MOORE | August 19

While the N.C. General Assembly is pleased this summer with the generous state budget, several issues favored by officials in Orange County never made ...

Budget spares system projects

By STEPHEN MOORE | August 19

July 13 - By signing the final version of the state budget into law in early July, Gov. Mike Easley put the finishing touches on the spending plan. But ...

'Brick' finds success in neo-noir

By HARRY KAPLOWITZ | August 19

June 1 - The American Heritage College Dictionary defines "transplant" as a verb meaning to uproot and replant. With "Brick," writer-director Rian ...

Future uncertain for Black, aides

By STEPHEN MOORE | August 19

June 8 - After North Carolina legislators finalized the budget, a single question hovers above them, lingering in the not-so-distant future. Allegations ...

Wesleyan could be 18th UNC school

By STEPHEN MOORE | August 19

June 1 - How serious legislators are about making N.C. Wesleyan College the potential 18th member of the UNC system is questionable. The proposal included ...

Locals reacting to blood shortage

By Gray Caldwell | August 19

July 13 - The Chapel Hill and Orange County area - as well as the rest of the Carolinas - is experiencing its worst blood supply shortage in three years. Debbie ...

School spirit knows no price tag

By Alexandria Shealy | August 19

July 6 - From T-shirts to toiletseat covers, there's hardly anything that hasn't already been colored Carolina blue and stamped with a UNC logo. And ...

New NCSA chancellor welcomed warmly

By William Schwarzer | August 19

May 18 - The North Carolina School of the Arts recently appointed John Mauceri, founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and music director for ...

New, improved ASG set to make a splash

By ERIC JOHNSON | August 19

June 22 - RALEIGH - Student Body President James Allred looks set to offer some of the strongest backing ever for the UNC-system Association of Student ...

Campus reacts to Middle East crisis

By MAC MOLLISON | July 20

The recent surge of violence in the Middle East has led to evacuations on both sides of the Israeli-Lebanese border, where settlements in northern Israel ...

Sufjan's outtakes don't impress much

By Chris Coletta and Harry Kaplowitz | July 20

MUSICREVIEW Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche 2.5 Stars (The following is a conversation between Sufjan Stevens, who will play at Memorial Hall on Sept. ...

New comedy lacks the laughs of predecessors

By Emily Luger | July 20

MOVIEREVIEW "You, Me and Dupree" 3 Stars Although not the best of its genre, "You, Me and Dupree" joins the ranks of what has now become a successful ...

Campus briefs

By Staff Editor | July 20

UNC medical school gifted a radiology imaging system Philips Medical Systems has donated an image and information system to the UNC School of Medicine's ...

School slips below U.S. standards

By Gray Caldwell | July 20

Carrboro Elementary School failed to meet federally mandated standards for student performance last year - and the school could lose students because ...

Venable's time is at hand

By Nicole Duncan | July 20

Venable Hall - well-known around campus for its one-of-a-kind and often frustrating architecture - might not be well-known for much longer. Many students ...

A new way to get around

By Tom Hartwell | July 20

You might have seen him one of these summer evenings, gliding along Franklin Street on a bicycle with a rickshaw in tow, and maybe you pictured those ...

Drugstore probes downtown

By Gray Caldwell | July 20

Another big business could be headed to Franklin Street. Walgreens Co. is opening new stores in North Carolina and is looking specifically at Chapel ...