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Embrace your inner network

By JOHN COGGIN | September 27

Some time this summer, around 9:55 p.m. Sunday night, I was speaking on the phone with a friend, who recently moved to Florida. He was confronting the ...

Area artists tune into hurricane victim needs

September 27

While some will be spending this evening watching TV, area resident Vickie Smith plans to be grooving to music at the ArtsCenter. A member of the Association ...

DJ chills audience through multimedia show

By JIM WALSH | September 26

The University community was treated to an eclectic mix of art and politics Friday as the first installment of the Urban Voices series in the Carolina ...

Los Lobos treats crowd to rousing show

September 26

Online Review Los Lobos Memorial Hall 3.5 stars Those looking for a way to spice up a calm Sunday evening were treated to a show in Memorial Hall ...

Local bands rally behind relief effort

By WHITNEY ISENHOWER | September 23

Not every concert for a good cause has to feature Bono. Famed Triangle artists and bands from as far as San Diego are scheduled to play a benefit concert ...

New-age art form comes to hall

By JIM WALSH | September 22

A performance coming to Memorial Hall this Friday defies definition. Part music, part cinema, part movement, it is an amalgam of media and a collage ...

Local 506 to host benefit for Katrina

By MARTA OSTROWSKI | September 22

Locals have offered free gas, proceeds from ice cream sales and Mardi Gras beads to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims - now they'll try to do ...

Schoolkids still fills independent niche

By JACKY BRAMMER | September 21

About a year after adding new floor space directly next door to its original Franklin Street address, Schoolkids Records is thriving. Store owner Michael ...

Beat scroll tour comes to Wilson

By STANTON KIDD | September 16

When author Truman Capote said Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is "not writing, but typing," he perhaps did not realize just what a massive feat of ...

Documentary reflects on disillusionment of battle

September 16

A new documentary that intimately chronicles army life premieres in Chapel Hill today. "Occupation: Dreamland" unveils year-old footage of the Army's ...

Nothing awkward about Pleasant release

By MARTA OSTROWSKI | September 15

On first listen to Pleasant's Awkward as a Beehive, there are striking similarities to The Cure. But dive further into the album and you'll find the group ...

Alum's posters prove popular

September 15

Students walking through the Student Union art gallery during the first few weeks of the fall semester have been treated to an installation that is a ...

Emo rock doesn't meet criteria

By HARRY KAPLOWITZ | September 15

It's been getting easier to take gut-shots at emo. And bands like Criteria don't contribute much of a defense for the critically withering yet ever-present ...

Bennett woos opening crowd

September 12

Tony Bennett, one of the most recognizable icons in American music, was on hand to celebrate the reopening of a beloved campus landmark. Students and ...

Students cap off reopening

By JOHN COGGIN | September 12

On the final day of Memorial Hall's gala opening weekend, students and the University community poured into a renovated venue for a free day of entertainment ...

Classic acts hark the sound

By WHITNEY ISENHOWER | September 12

University pride was mixed with world-renowned and local classical talents at the Saturday as part of the opening of the renovated Memorial Hall. "A ...

Memorial Hall tickets are a hot seller

By JIM WALSH | August 31

Single tickets are going fast for the first season of performances at the renovated Memorial Hall. Lines at the box office, however, are not. The ...

Festival not short of new talent

By WHITNEY ISENHOWER | August 31

For one local filmmaker, the movie “Deliverance” is significant for more than its “squeal like a pig” line. Emily Marroquin, ...

Stone Center features author

By TANNER SLAYDEN | August 30

History’s depiction of the civil rights movement is sugarcoated, and the South has become one of the most important arenas for race and national ...

Arts advocates strive for unity

By JIM WALSH | August 30

The campus arts community is thriving, but something is amiss. With student-run performances happening almost every weekend and more than 70 culture ...