Articles by Lauren Russell

Pauper Players premieres its biggest fundraiser and its most popular annual show, “Broadway Melodies 2010,” tonight at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Cabaret. It runs through Tuesday.

The show consists of four musical parodies written, directed and performed by students. The casts have had only two weeks to rehearse.

Bill T. Jones presented a modern dance inspired byAbraham Lincoln without top hats, big beards or pennies Friday night at Memorial Hall.

Charles Dickens is known for creating memorable literary characters through his words. But the grouchy-voiced Scrooge that comes to mind may have been created through the influence of performances and illustrations of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” not his original writings.

After having to repeatedly change his camera lens to be able to see Che Guevara through his viewfinder, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda was so startled by the leader’s expression that he physically stepped back as he hit the shutter.

That expression Korda captured has been digitized, painted, silk screened and tattooed into 20th century pop culture and is the most often reproduced photograph in history, said art historian, collector and UNC alumnus David Craven in his talk about Cuban art Sunday in Hanes Art Center.