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Students by Day, Party Starters by Night

By Elliott Dube | June 20

Look out, P. Diddy. The rapper and business mogul had to start small on his way to topping the charts. Likewise, the 5fters (Five Footers), a local company ...

Spacey Pop Band Luna To Appear at Cat's Cradle

By Sarah Kucharski | June 20

The final leg of space-pop band Luna's promotional tour for its latest release, Romantica, will feature a stop at Cat's Cradle on June 22. Formed in ...

DIRTY VEGAS

By Aaron Freeman | June 13

Dirty Vegas' self-titled debut systematically presents often promising, but ultimately generic electronica and neo-soul. OK, this is probably the first ...

Cullowhee Gets Jazzed About Festival

By Elliott Dube | June 13

Music that was once confined to smoke-filled, big-city nightclubs will soon get a chance to breathe in the mountain breeze of North Carolina. Jazz will ...

Merritt at Her Best on Stage

By Sarah Kucharski | June 13

Diamond in the rough Tift Merritt has been polished clean and set in platinum. After a brief stint in the recording studio, the Southern rock artist returned ...

'Ya-Ya' Fun Estrogen Fest

By Kristen Williams | June 13

To enjoy and appreciate "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a viewer should be Southern, a member of a close group of friends and a woman. If you ...

Eminem Shows New Face, Same Accuracy

By Elliott Dube | June 6

Forget the Osbournes. If you want a dose of insanity mixed with brutal reality, tune in to the latest spiel from Eminem. The Slim Shady LP from 1999, ...

Towns Promote Arts With Crawl

By Aaron Freeman | June 6

Art town archetypes Chapel Hill and Carrboro finally are attempting to remedy the noticeable void in the local gallery scene with the birth of the Chapel ...

Thompson Performs at the Open Eye Cafe

By Elliott Dube | June 6

It's not easy singing and songwriting your way to fame and fortune. For every Joni Mitchell and Neil Young success story, there are plenty more Jeffrey ...

Art Goes From Carrboro Farmer's Market to Washington, D.C.

By Brooks Firth | May 30

High art and the Carrboro Farmers' Market are not usually entities entangled with each other. But Chapel Hill resident and photographer Sonia Katchian ...

The Sames Come Too Close to Teen Flick Soundtrack

By Kristen Williams | May 30

nitially, The Sames crank out catchy songs that easily could provide the background music to a well-groomed guy's laments over an even better groomed ...

NYC's The Leader Kicks Off Tour In Chapel Hill

By Natalie Harry | May 30

Looking to break away from their "hostile" environment, New York City musicians Sam Lazzara and Julie DeLano of The Leader, decided to take their show ...

Pacino, Williams Share Deadly Secrets

By Elliott Dube | May 30

When you can't sleep, your mind has that much more time to go over the things you wouldn't normally want to think about. This idea is one of many explored ...

Disband Breaks Rules, Steals Basement Sound

By Brooks Firth | May 23

Ashes fell lightly to the Local 506's stage from the cigarette bassist Charlie Estes held at the corner of his mouth. Sprawled out in a spread stance, ...

'Boy' Redeems Errant Genre

By Michelle Jarboe | May 23

It's a rare romantic comedy that focuses on the nuances of a relationship between a 38-year-old loafer and a 12-year-old boy. Not to mention one that ...

Art Group to Give UNC A Taste of N.Y. Flavor

By Jenise Hudson | April 30

With all the changes New York has gone through since September, it seems one thing will never change -- its reputation as one of the country's biggest ...

Cutting Corners

By Elliott Dube | April 25

It's 11:55 a.m., and Deborah Hallam is busy preparing her art room at Glenwood Elementary School for her next class. Wearing a smock complete ...

Brit Comedy Veers Between Laughs, Soft-Core Porn Flick

By Sarah Kucharski | April 25

"Crush" 2 Stars While "Crush" has been billed as a sort of girls'-night-out emotional bender, it would be more appropriately described as a mindless ...

Dive Recommends

By Harmony Johnson | April 25

www.guycritical.comFinally! A place where women can get straight answers about dating, sex, relationships and more. Women can ask real guys anonymous ...

Undergraduate Art Students Revive Pittsboro Mill With Loom2 Exhibit

By Ashley Atkinson | April 25

A group of University undergraduates is once again bringing a defunct Pittsboro mill back to life with an exhibition of art created from and inspired ...