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Phuzz Phest music festival helps sharpen arts scene

By Kristina Kokkonos | March 29

The City of the Arts will be celebrating its namesake this weekend. Phuzz Phest, an annual music festival in Winston-Salem, begins tomorrow. Its third ...

Jonathan Scott plays Charlie Brown in Company Carolina's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."

‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ opens tonight

By Rupali Srivastava | March 27

The Peanuts gang is taking Chapel Hill, complete with melancholy monologues by a young Charlie Brown, philosophical ponderings from a confused Snoopy ...

Senior Melanie Rio combined Shakespeare's three classic Henry VI plays into one 90-minute production for her senior honors thesis. The show will be performed Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Forest Theater.

A LAB! show compiles Shakespeare’s three ‘Henry VI’ plays

By Everett Handy | March 27

With the grand scenery of UNC’s Forest Theater behind them and with the dramatic equivalent of “House of Cards” on a bloody Shakespearean stage, ...

UNC opera groups to perform companion pieces Friday

By Madison Flager | March 26

The UNC Opera and UNC Opera Orchestra and teaming up for this second time this weekend to perform Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” and Michael Ching’s ...

The Playmakers collection of original plays is being shown in Wilson Library. Recordings, original documents, and artifacts are on display to represent the group's fifty-six year history.

‘People’s Theatre’ tells UNC student theater group's past

By Juanita Chavarro | March 25

Costume pieces, sheet music, black and white production pictures and multicolored playbills tell the story of the PlayMakers Repertory Company, one of ...

3 writers to host joint reading at Flyleaf Books

By Jessica Zambrano | March 25

A group of colleagues will come together tonight at Flyleaf Books to talk about the varied routes they took on the way to becoming writers.

Durham duo Eric Erica a true musical match

By Kristina Kokkonos | March 25

Eric Kuhn and Erica Fink are not your average couple. Sure, they can finish each other’s sentences and there’s a sparkle in their eyes when ...

Q&A with world-class banjo player Abigail Washburn

By Allison Hussey | March 24

Abigail Washburn is a world-class banjo player who is best known for her unique combination of American and Chinese folk music traditions.

UNC alumnus writes about unexpected kinship in latest novel

By Chinelo Umerah | March 24

When two people — both fighting to escape their desperate histories — cross paths at a used car parking lot, an unexpected kinship grows between them. ...

Sarah Wolfe, a resident of Durham, enjoys painting a glass bottle at Lantern Restaurant. She is a curator for Windows in the Chapel Hill area.

Local storefronts to host Windows on Chapel Hill art exhibitions

By Claire Nielsen | March 23

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UNC Libraries celebrate Persian new year Nowruz

By clayton johnson | March 23

The North Carolina Iranian-American community has given generously to UNC Libraries — and now the libraries say they hope to give back.

Art professors get involved in community

March 23

When Adrian Schlesinger, a UNC graduate in studio arts, helped Professor elin o’Hara slavick curate an exhibition in the North Carolina Museum of Art ...

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‘Modern Love’ editor Daniel Jones comes to Flyleaf

By Paige Hopkins | March 23

Thousands of essays later, New York Times’ column editor Daniel Jones has written his book on love, “Love Illuminated: Exploring Life’s Most Mystifying ...

Movie Review: Muppets Most Wanted

By Jeremy Wile | March 23

Is it sad when the short before a movie is just as funny, if not more, than the film itself? Well, this is the case with “Muppets Most Wanted.”

Movie Review: Gloria

By Drew Goins | March 23

Gloria Cumplido, the 58-year-old Santiago divorcée around whom director Sebastián Lelio centers his Spanish-language film “Gloria,” is ...

Movie Review: Divergent

By Avery Thompson | March 23

“Divergent,” based on the series of books written by Veronica Roth, is the latest book-to-film adaptation of a wildly popular teen saga.

Music Review: Rogue Band of Youth

By Natalie Carney | March 23

Carrboro act Rogue Band of Youth has a front porch charm that propels its self-titled album. Upon first impression, this could be just another folk rock ...

Music Review: Amigo

By Dixon Ferrell | March 23

Amigo throws East Texas drinking music into a blender with more modern hippie influences and pours out its debut album, My Clouds, forging its own sound ...

Q&A with Bayside

By Marcela Guimaraes | March 23

Bayside has been going strong in the punk rock scene ever since it emerged from Queens 14 years ago. The band has just released its new albumCultand kicked ...

Music Review: Perfect Pussy

By Will Jackson | March 23

From the first note to the final note in Perfect Pussy’s 23-minute debut, Say Yes To Love, the band never slows down. Fuzzed out, shouted ...