Partobject Gallery Spotlights Contemporary Photography

While many art galleries pay tribute to artists from the past, Carrboro's Partobject Gallery finds it imperative to support contemporary international ...

Board Creates Fines for Noise

CARRBORO -- The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a resolution to amend the town's noise ordinance but kept the starting time at 7 a.m. on ...

Rainer Maria, Countdown Quartet Return With Solid Releases

UNC Jazz BandsPassages -- Europe 2000HHHHJazz, for many of us, is mysterious and somewhat daunting musical territory. It falls into a darkly romantic ...

Higher Education Received Boost Under Clinton's Care

While the rest of President Bill Clinton's legacy might still be up in the air, education officials seem to agree that his place as the higher education ...

Tar Heels Keep Streak Alive, Embarrass Clemson

Will Solomon's one-man basketball show came to Chapel Hill on Wednesday night and ran into something far superior: a total team effort from North Carolina.The ...

Van Sant Finds Inspiration In `Good Will Hunting' Plot

It is no coincidence that "Finding Forrester" has many parallels to 1997's "Good Will Hunting." After all, both films were directed under the watchful ...

`State and Main' Witty, but Not Mamet's Best

A drastic clash of two cultures -- Hollywood and rural New England -- provides "State and Main" with well-staged visual humor, amusingly archetypical ...

Council Considers Red-Light Cameras

People in Chapel Hill might soon think twice before running a red light if the Chapel Hill Town Council approves a new technology to help catch offenders.The ...

ArtsCenter, El Chilango Creator Adds Flavor to the Area

Jacques Menache is renowned as an exuberant philanthropist and jack-of-all-trades.Simply put, he is an artist, musician, restaurant owner, real estate ...

Report Outlines Ways to Prevent Future Flooding

Since floodwaters devastated Eastgate Shopping Center last July, the reasons for the storm water surge and solutions to the underlying problems leading ...

Dilbert 01/18/01

Textbook Inquiry Continues

After being charged full prices for what he claims to be used books at UNC Student Stores, senior Marcus Carden is pursuing answers from University officials ...

`O Brother' Reworks Homer's Epic

There was a running joke in Preston Sturges' classic "Sullivan's Travels" where a director wants to make an ideal "message picture" called "O Brother ...

N.C. Cities Pleased With Cameras' Results

Officials in several N.C. cities are pleased with the initial results of new programs that place cameras at high-traffic intersections to decrease the ...

7-Up Guy Can't Save Film From Weak Plot

Sometimes I just wonder who the people are who come up with ideas for some movies. Why did they cast that guy? Why the hell did they let that script see ...

Easley's New Picks Bring State Experience to Jobs

Gov. Mike Easley continued filling out his Cabinet this week by appointing a state budget director and a new head of the N.C.

Bad Network Decisions Plague Today's TV

As an obsessed TV watcher, I should understand by now that television is a business run by advertising, demographics and ratings -- a business that depends ...

WSSU Tries to Forgo Search Policy

Officials at Winston-Salem State University want UNC-system leaders to name Harold Martin as the sole candidate for chancellor at the university, forgoing ...

Students, Faculty to Feast Together at Lenoir

A new program sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences will give students and faculty the chance to chew the fat over a meal at Lenoir Dining Hall."Take ...