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No. 16 UNC women's basketball dominates NCCU, 119-43, recording most points under Courtney Banghart

| November 29

Arts

Kenan Theatre Company presents Tmberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good," directed by Joesph Megel.

Theater group dedicates performance of "Our Country's Good" to Andrew Crabtree

By Breanna Kerr | April 9

When scenic designer McKay Coble met with visiting artist Joseph Megel last spring to plan the Kenan Theatre Company’s 2013-14 season, she looked ...

FRANK Gallery will showcase UNC's best photojournalists

By Robert McNeely | April 9

Whether reporting on sports, politics or the arts, photography is a crucial element of journalism — and FRANK Gallery’s latest exhibit will showcase ...

Q&A with The Beets’ Juan Wauters

By Allison Hussey | April 8

Juan Wauters, former frontman of The Beets, released his first solo album, N.A.P. — North American Poetry, this fall. Originally from Uruguay, the singer ...

Walt Wolfram is an author of “Talkin’ Tar Heel” and an English linguistics professor at N.C. State. Courtesy of Walt Wolfram.

Tar Heels talkin’ about accents

By Sarah Vassello | April 8

In a North Carolinian college town, there are as many types of accents as there are majors.

Event hosts discussion on Muslim women in media

By clayton johnson | April 8

UNC professor Juliane Hammer believes the effects of Sept. 11 on perceptions of Muslim women are still evident today — 12 years later.

Claymakers sculpts a show with studio’s artists and students

By Tat'yana Berdan | April 7

Linda Prager saw a woman sitting at a wheel throwing clay almost 15 years ago while visiting her old college roommate in Washington, D.C. and was ...

UNC World Music concert brings worlds together

By Margaret Gilmore | April 7

UNC’s Gamelan Nyai Saraswati and Charanga Carolina groups are challenging audience members to expand the ways in which they listen to music.

Alumna Martha Hoelzer brings her art to Caffe Driade

April 7

Customers at Caffe Driade will be in for a surprise when they sit down with a cup of tea and glance out of the window this month — instead of the familiar ...

Playmakers’ ‘Assassins’: A well-done performance

By Samantha Sabin | April 7

PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins,” a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman and directed by Mike Donahue, brought ...

Opening ceremony for April ArtsCenter show to be held during ArtWalk

By Megan Caron | April 6

Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents will have the opportunity to experience the collaboration of three different artists and visit some of the many galleries ...

Review: Broadway-quality vocals, laughs boost ‘Avenue Q’

By Josephine Yurcaba | April 6

UNC Pauper Players’ “Avenue Q” combined two opposing elements — innocent-looking puppets and vulgar, crude humor — to teach audience members ...

Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

By Amanda Hayes | April 6

Captain America: The Winter Soldier takes a thrilling new direction from war movie to spy movie with some extra conspiracy thrown in. It is one of the ...

Music Review: Protomartyr

By Will Jackson | April 6

Following in the line of the Smiths and Joy Division, Protomartyr uses a variety of styles and instruments to complement melancholy lyrics, not overpower ...

Music Review: Ryley Walker

By Charlie Shelton | April 6

Ryley Walker may be new to life as a solo musician, but his debut, All Kinds of You, is nothing short of a sophisticated and intricate arrangement, ...

Music Review: TURCHI

By Cozy Brents | April 6

Reed Turchi describes Can’t Bury Your Past as a “kudzu boogie,” so he delivers by producing infectiously groovy Mississippi blues.

Music Review: North Elementary

By Mac Gushanas | April 6

Chapel Hill group North Elementary has been around for over a decade now, crafting pleasing rock records every couple of years. Now comes Honcho Poncho, ...

Q&A with Mac DeMarco

By Allison Hussey | April 6

Mac DeMarco is a young guitarist and songwriter whose 2012 breakout record, launched him into a whirlwind of international success. Diversions editor ...

‘A road gig 2 stoplights down’

By Dixon Ferrell | April 6

It’s been a metaphorically long road for North Elementary and LUD, but a geographically short one. The two Chapel Hill bands have been in the area for ...

Brooklyn Rider Quartet, pictured Thursday rehearsing at Gerrard Hall, performs on Sunday at Memorial Hall. Members (left to right) Johnny Gandelsman, Eric Jacobsen, Nicholas Cards, and Colin Jacobsen are glad to be back at Carolina for their tenth year; "Music is more than notes on a page, it's life," commented C. Jacobsen on music and its discussion within the university.

Brooklyn Rider returns for 10th time

By Rupali Srivastava | April 3

Chapel Hill is a home away from home for many students during their college years, but even musicians from Brooklyn, New York, have found comfort in returning ...

Q&A with The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross

By Allison Hussey | April 3

Alex Ross is a music critic for The New Yorker, whose latest major undertaking is a book on the cultural legacy of German composer Richard Wagner. ...