Learn from UNC students on how to budget
By Caroline Nihill | February 4Tracking expenses, budgeting and saving are important skills to learn in college. Here's how these students are managing their money.
Tracking expenses, budgeting and saving are important skills to learn in college. Here's how these students are managing their money.
“I think that everybody is so obsessed with it because, one, there's so much drama behind the song and everybody loves drama,” senior Taylor Edmonds said. “And then two, it's a beautiful song. And three, people love hearing the sad deep emotional songs, especially if they can connect to it because of their own sad emotional experiences that they've gone through.”
The band features two members of the UNC community.
Carrboro-based Dwarf Star Studios is holding their monthly virtual concert series at 7 p.m. Thursday featuring The Unsustainables, Fat Bastard Blues Band and Harbors. The three local bands have sounds ranging from ska to the blues and alternative music.
This year, the Pauper Players theatre group will be remotely recording and creating a music video for “Time Warp,” a song from their annual production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The video will be available through the group's social media starting on Halloween.
With public health safety risks causing classes to move online for the semester, many UNC music ensembles have taken an online format to continue creating music together. With the shift, musicians have also had to adapt to new challenges and learn new skills.
Through the collaborative efforts of the Orange County Arts Commission and the Hillsborough Arts Council, this year’s fourth annual “Paint it Orange,” is taking a new online format to continue supporting artists in North Carolina.
Programs such as "Avatar: The Last Airbender" or the follow-up series "The Legend of Korra" offer different experiences depending on the viewer, as well as room for new interpretations of the shows. The two series have resurfaced after their recent release on Netflix.
“I was so happy in the video, and that resonates with a lot of people,” UNC sophomore Ibrahim Shakhtour said.” People could connect to the fact that after they finish something so difficult, that's how happy they are, especially people who have programmed.”
In less than two weeks author and UNC alumna Anne Reeder Heck is expected to release her memoir, “A Fierce Belief in Miracles: My Journey from Rape to Healing and Wholeness.” Heck recounts her experience being assaulted when she was 26 and enjoying a morning bicycle ride in Northern Virginia when she was stopped by a man asking for directions.