Standup comedian Kyle Dunnigan has performed on “Reno 911!,” Comedy Central and a variety of late-night comedy shows. This weekend, he’ll bring the laughs to the Carrboro ArtsCenter as part of the center’s series featuring professional comedians.
Paul Hills will lecture in the Hanes Art Center tonight on clothing and drapery in the paintings of Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto.
SIC is a play without punctuation as is this abstract
Midterms. But here is your Roundup. Like revenge, it is best served cold. On ice cream. Which is also cold. Yikes.
Check out the “hospitality” section of The New Pornographers’ contract to perform at Homecoming. There are some interesting comestible requests.
Three recent UNC graduates have made it to Los Angeles and started their own improv and sketch comedy group, Hamilton 100. The group is named for the room in which CHiPs, UNC’s improv group, performs.
Local band SAD magazine played at the 14th annual Carrboro Music Festival. Staff writer Breeze Riley shares her thoughts on the band’s set.
The uncanny set of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “In The Next Room” (or the Vibrator Play)” is as pleasant to the eye as the treatment is for the characters.
The Carrboro Music Festival hosted over 130 bands in 25 venues today.
It’s the weekend. Get your Weekender on.
Choreographer Hope Boykin — whose work “Watching Go By, The Day” premieres Friday at Carolina Performing Arts — has had a long love affair with dance.
Phi Mu Alpha’s Midnight Mystery Tour brings a new light to campus attractions.
Employees of Summit Consulting in Hillsborough, NC, have united as Salt Bodyne to perform in this Saturday’s Triangle Battle of the Bands.
Somehow, the month of September breezed by faster than the last week of August for us at Canvas. This weekend might be rainy, so take an umbrella and hide out in a gallery or a theater for some of this weekend’s incredible art.
TeenNick recently launched a new late-night programming block called “The ’90s Are All That.” Assistant Arts Editor Katherine Proctor spoke with Keith Dawkins, the senior vice president and general manager of TeenNick and Nicktoons, about the thought behind the new block.
Brothers Stephen and Wayne Miltz, both UNC alumni, released a book at the beginning of September based on their website crazythingsparentstext.com. The book focuses on the “seven stages of textual maturity.”
Jessica Lea Mayfield, who has performed with North Carolina natives The Avett Brothers and alternative rock group The Black Keys, is coming to Historic Playmakers Theatre Tuesday.
“Differentiate,” the most recent exhibit in the Allcott Gallery of the Hanes Art Center, features artists Gina Osterloh and Mores McWreath. It closes tomorrow, so get there while you still can!
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir visited UNC on Wednesday to discuss her films and her career. She will visit Duke University tonight to screen her feature film “Salt of this Sea” and answer questions.
Taking a break from Mad Men and Twister, Canvas is here to show you a jam-packed weekend. If you want to fill your hours with all sorts of art, art, TV awards, and more art, this is your weekend. See some plays, stop by a good bunch of galleries to get your fill of art, then tune in to the Emmys Sunday night on FOX to see if assistant Arts editor Katherine Proctor’s predictions of Hugh Laurie’s emmy gold comes true. You know you want to.
