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Cake Saunters Onstage With Anti-Rock Star Stereotype

By Trafton Drew | February 14

Cake The Ritz Thursday, Feb. 7 4 Stars When someone mentions aviator sunglasses and mesh hats, the words usually don't conjure an image of a rock star. ...

Lambchop Conjures Up Sultry Torch Singer Image

By Ashley Atkinson | February 14

Lambchop Is a Woman 4 Stars Nashville, Tenn., is known these days as a music-making machine that chews up aspiring country artists and spits them out ...

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By Nick Parker | February 14

"Rule of The Bone," Russell Banks Following the life of Chapman (a.k.a. Bone), this book is a coming-of-age novel that will change the way you look ...

Lambchop Conjures Up Sultry Torch Singer Image

By Ashley Atkinson | February 14

Lambchop Is a Woman 4 Stars Nashville, Tenn., is known these days as a music-making machine that chews up aspiring country artists and spits them out ...

Cracker Struggles With Pop-Stardom; NIN Revisits Misery

By Staff Editor | February 14

Matt Pond PA The Green Fury 3 Stars The experience of listening to Matt Pond PA's The Green Fury leaves one feeling an oddly pleasurable malaise. Matt ...

The Big Quiz

By Staff Editor | February 14

Print this page and fill out the answers of fun pop culture questions. Bring your quiz answers to The Daily Tar Heel office with your name, phone number ...

Schwarzenegger Fails to Overpower Terrorist Flick's Mediocre Plot Twist

By Jenise Hudson | February 14

"Collateral Damage" 2 Stars Originally postponed for its sensitive content in the wake of Sept. 11, "Collateral Damage" serves up a mediocre plot that ...

Black Encourages, Warns UNC Students

By Nick Parker | February 12

Before his nearly sold-out show at Memorial Hall, comedian and UNC alumnus Lewis Black shared his anger and his experiences with students studying theater ...

Black Unleashes His Anger At UNC, World in Standup

By Elliott Dube | February 12

From the film "Network" came the famous saying: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" This quip is comedian Lewis Black in a nutshell. The ...

Singers Contend With Fan Culture

By Evan Lucas | February 12

A typical show at Memorial Hall for two of the major a cappella groups at UNC is a sight to see. A sold-out house of screaming fans awaits the talented ...

Talk to Put Photographer in Focus

By Joanna Pearson | February 12

Deborah Kogan is the sort of person who if a war, a plague and a tornado were all three about to strike in the same place, she would immediately go there. She's ...

Fiddling Poet Back in Town to Perform

By Michelle Jarboe | February 11

Ken Waldman, the "Alaskan Fiddling Poet," has returned to the Triangle to perform in the area where he took his first fiddling lesson. Waldman, who will ...

Chemical Brothers Score Fourth Big Knockout

By Elliott Dube | February 7

The Chemical Brothers Come With Us

'Slackers' More Mature Than Genre Standards

By Jenise Hudson | February 7

Three Stars What's a great dream sequence without a little music, dancing and spanking? Whatever it is, the directors of "Slackers" couldn't care less ...

Black's Biting Humor, Cynicism Date Back to Frat Life

By Caroline Lindsey | February 7

Lewis Black didn't do a lot of acting onstage during his time at UNC. But the 1970 alumnus's college days were undoubtedly spent flaunting his comedic ...

Back in Black

By Nick Parker | February 7

After more than 30 years away from his alma mater, comedian Lewis Black is returning to UNC on Feb. 11 for his first on-campus performance. Indeed, Black ...

Freedman Plays Cave With Uninhibited Pure Emotion, Raw Talent

By Caroline Lindsey | February 7

Four Stars At the Cave on Friday night, Skott Freedman's one-man performance made the audience members put down their beers and just listen. Seated ...

See Black Live; Skip The Album

By Trafton Drew | February 7

Lewis Black The White Album

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By Joanna Pearson | February 7

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" This grotesque film stars real-life rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as an aged child star and her dependent paralyzed ...

Alumnus's 'Ding-a-Ling Less' Film Handles Phallic Material Well

By Michael Abernethy | February 7

"Ding-a-Ling Less"