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North Carolina rap maker, caretaker duo drops album

By Juanita Chavarro | February 16

George Alyateem — also known as Doc G — doesn’t have much spare time as a first-year UNC medical student.

Mali, Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, studio recording 03/2012

International musicians share sounds of Mali at Memorial Hall

By Jaleesa Jones | February 13

Memorial Hall is hitting all the right notes this Valentine’s Day as it hosts international musicians Bassekou Kouyate and Fatoumata Diawara for “One ...

The Vagina Monologues was a female cast that portrayed a variety of different characters who relayed information based on over 200 interviews. It touched on the subjects of sex, rape, love, masturbation, orgasm, birth, and more. Carolina Company partnered with V-Day to present this play.

Izzy Francke Junior Drama/German

Vagina Monologues will be performed this weekend in Spanish and English

By Breanna Kerr | February 13

Two women who have never met are performing in this year’s bilingual production of “The Vagina Monologues” for the same reason: to encourage women ...

Lile Stephens is a MFA student at UNC-CH. His MFA thesis exhibition "Operating Systems" is on display from February 10 - 14. There will be a reception, February 13, at 6pm for his exhibit. Stephens's favorite piece in his exhibit was his cow statue.

Master of Fine Arts students showcase art in exhibition series

By Rupali Srivastava | February 11

The Master of Fine Arts program at UNC has attracted artists from all around the world, ranging from South Korea to Arkansas to New York City.

UNC Studio Art Majors Association presents exhibit uniting sexuality and art

By Ally Levine | February 11

Viewers of the UNC Studio Art Majors Association’s latest show will have to go into the closet to experience art about coming out of the closet.

Mark Katz, 2011 Hettleman Award winner at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Music professor Mark Katz to serve as director for Institute for the Arts and Humanities

By Breanna Kerr | February 10

With Mark Katz now tapped as the next director for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, directors from the past joined him to discuss the future ...

Internationally-recognized pianist Lang Lang to perform at Memorial Hall

February 10

After rocking it out with Metallica at the Grammy Awards ceremony in January, Lang Lang is set to electrify Chapel Hill tonight.

Program seeks to build strong relationships between academics and arts

By Karishma Patel | February 9

Carolina Performing Arts’s program Arts@TheCore has made progress in building a stronger relationship between the arts and academics on campus.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro middle school students make dresses for girls in African countries

By Madison Flager | February 9

By the end of spring semester, students from three Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will have made 200 dresses for girls at the Sulmac Primary School ...

UNC Women's Glee Club joins with local high school choirs for musical showcase, charity benefit

By Erin Wygant | February 6

The voices of young women from across the state will echo through Hill Hall tonight.

UNC alumni to premier performances of contemporary classical music

By Juanita Chavarro | February 6

Two UNC alumni will premiere their new pieces tonight at Chapel Hill Contemporary Music Ensemble’s “Modes of Modulation” in the Kenan Music ...

2-5 - "Beautiful Child" - Actors Ben Elling and Marc Gutierrez rehearse "Beautiful Child" in the Chapel Hill Underground on Wednesday, February 5th. The play details a dysfunctional couple's struggle to understand why their son became a child molester.

Rogue Players presents ‘Beautiful Child’ at Chapel Hill Underground for one night only

By Chinelo Umerah | February 5

Wrongdoing after wrongdoing will force audience members to question their ideas about morality and relationships tonight with Rogue Players’s production, ...

The Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill exhibits "Before Hours," a powerful photography collection by Gail Goers. The exhibition is open until February 24th.

Photograph exhibit showcases town nightlife

By Sarah Vassello | February 5

The clubs and bars frequented by students and Chapel Hill residents are being seen through different eyes, thanks to photographer Gail Goers.

Q&A with writer, photographer Lawrence Earley

By Juanita Chavarro | February 5

Writer and photographer Lawrence Earley’s new book, “The Workboats of Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World,” explores the histories ...

ArtsCenter presents Tibetan cultural pageant

By Crystal Yuille | February 4

Traveling 8,000 miles from Karnataka, India to the Carrboro ArtsCenter, the Tibetan monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery will present the Chapel Hill ...

Film festival to highlight French cinema

By Robert McNeely | February 4

The artistic style and storytelling of French cinema is coming to UNC.

Vandalism temporarily closes campus record label

By Samantha Sabin | February 4

After numerous reports of break-ins and vandalism, Vinyl Records has temporarily stopped using its Hill Hall recording space.

Students start a pop band, release first EP

By Everett Handy | February 4

Playing rhythmic guitar, singing and composing all the music for local pop band Numans seems to be no problem for UNC freshman Teddy Wilson, who manages ...

Former DTH reporter remembers role as activist

By Elizabeth Baker | February 3

It was Loyd Little’s job as a reporter for The Daily Tar Heel that led him to the picket lines on Franklin Street to rally for integration in Chapel ...

Paul Jones, UNC Chapel Hill professor in the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, decided to stop sorting through the generic messages that he humorously says are sent by robots and gave up the use of email in 2011 for more effective means of communication.

UNC professor Paul Jones went from pioneering to protesting email

By Tat'yana Berdan | February 3

Though he helped create some of UNC’s email programs, Paul Jones has not sent an email since 2011.