Dive recommends for June 18

Album from the Vaults:   Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence: Yeah we know it's not their best. But there's something endlessly charming about ...

QuickHits for June 18

Only one day off | Thumbs down | We can't even drive home. We know summer is like school on steroids" but it would be nice to have at least two days ...

Swan Lake: An evening of grandeur with the Bolshoi Ballet

 The language barrier dissolved Saturday evening in Memorial Hall between the Russian-speaking Bolshoi Ballet dancers and the English-speaking audience ...

A lack of taxation: N.C. House should raise taxes to close budget gap

It's time to raise state taxes for those who can afford the extra burden. No one likes hearing that taxes are going up. But times are tough and seem to ...

Trekky returns with second all-day festival

If you showed up to the new location of Trekky Records in a secluded house right on the Chapel Hill side of I-40 you'd find a perfectly ramshackle encapsulation ...

Choose public service: Students should be charitable given the poor economy

The current job market can make planning post-college life dreary. But there's an alternative to being depressed about the lack of corporate jobs with ...

Sports briefs for June 11

Women's basketball player diagnosed with Hodgkin's | The family of Jessica Breland a senior forward on the North Carolina basketball team announced Tuesday ...

Scooters could need parking spaces

When Barbara Ambros was in Japan she traveled mostly by scooter. She figured it would be an economical cheap way to make her 10-minute trip to UNC's campus. ...

Baseball: UNC dominates in series rout

It wasn't supposed to be this easy. Hyped as one of the top Super Regionals in the country the North Carolina-East Carolina series seemed bound to bring ...

Tax breaks attract Apple to N.C. create more jobs

N.C. legislators modified state law to give Apple Inc. tax incentives in order to lure the company to the state. Apple the manufacturer of the iPod iPhone ...

Blackboard will receive upgrades

When students return to UNC this fall they will quickly discover the face-lift given to Blackboard over the summer. The online course management system ...

Kvetching Board for June 11

kvetch: v.1 (Yiddish) to complainTo the obnoxious girl who ruined game two for everyone by shouting nonstop the entire time: I'm sure Adam knows his number ...

Release the review: County should grant access to Fraley case peer review

Orange County needs to release the peer review of the paramedic who responded to Atlas Fraley's 9-1-1 call. Doing so would begin to mend the public's ...

Cartoon for June 11

Orientation leaders enjoy the challenge

At 6:30 a.m. Monday in the summer the UNC orientation leaders are already in the Union setting up for orientation. Each day these 20 student leaders are ...

Baseball: Bottom of lineup _¶ nds success in super regional

Leading up to the College World Series in Omaha Neb. all the buzz around North Carolina will undoubtedly be on sweet-swinging first baseman Dustin Ackley. ...

Crossword for June 11

Movie review: 'Tyson' is a balanced portrait

3.5 of 5 stars | ""Tyson"" is a strange" surprising sports documentary. It's about as strange in fact as its subject which is really saying something. ...

Print edition for June 11