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Library displays works of UNC's cartoonists

By Daniel Stainkamp | April 17

Wilson Library's latest exhibition is as steeped in ridicule, satire, lampoon and political commentary as it is in jibes at student government and campus food. The library's North Carolina Collection Gallery's current exhibition, "Lines of Humor, Shades of Controversy: A Century of Student Cartooning at UNC," includes cartoons from undergraduate publications dating from 1907 to 2006. The exhibit intends to provide a glimpse into past generations of campus life and to display the issues those generations found worthy of complaint and ridicule.

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Drama and music mix in 'Hamlet'

By Daniel Stainkamp | February 14

Synthesizing the emotional power of music with the vivid tangibility of drama has become standard fare in cinema and television, but in the realm of theater this fusion tends to be limited to musicals. But two world-class artists, well-versed in music and drama, have uniquely harmonized a timeless script with a more recent opus, resulting in what the artists said they hope will be a single, cohesive chorus greater than the sum of its parts.

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'Topdog' tackles family, poverty

By Daniel Stainkamp | January 28

PlayMakers Repertory Company will host a play that explores personal demons, existential crises, dubious futures and hazy pasts - using a sparse group of just two actors, two set designers and a director. "Topdog/Underdog" began preview shows Sunday and will run until March 2 at the Paul Green Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art.

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Exhibit features alumni photos

By Daniel Stainkamp | January 16

There is an image of two girls of different races, forbidden to play with each other, speaking through a chain-link fence. And there is a man covered in mud, dredging for trinkets in a religious ceremony. And there is a close-up of a portion of a battered, old checkerboard. The images in "Picturing the World: Carolina's Celebrated Photojournalists" echo a sense of human connection in their visual stories.

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Preview of two movies offered

By Daniel Stainkamp | October 25

The light and dark sides of comedy, as well as the mainstream and independent sides of cinema, will be showcased this week in two advance movie screenings, available on campus at no charge to students. The Carolina Union Activities Board will hold an advanced screening of "Dan in Real Life" at 7 p.m. today and "Wristcutters: A Love Story" at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Union Auditorium. The films, both comedies, begin at completely different locations - a typical American household and an atypical afterlife reserved for those who have committed suicide.

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Music symposium to feature critics

By Daniel Stainkamp | October 12

Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic for the New York Times and Tim Page, the Pulitzer prize winning chief classical music critic for the Washington Post, will be holding a public conversation entitled "The Critics Speak" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hill Hall Auditorium. The conversation is the second in a series of Carolina Symposia in Music and Culture, hosted by the Department of Music and co-sponsored by the Institute for Arts and Humanities and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Director debuts with 'Mortals'

By Daniel Stainkamp | September 28

When Abby Manekin, a UNC junior, was selected to direct the Lab! Theatre's first production of the school year, "Mere Mortals," she had never directed a play before. Manekin juggled her own transition from actress to director and a young cast in the less than one month allotted for rehearsal. "Mere Mortals," a series of six short plays, will open today and run through Tuesday. "There are so many elements I never had to think about when I was an actress," Manekin said. "I never realized how much of a collaborative effort it really is. It's a lot harder than I thought it'd be."

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Festival's films break multicultural barriers

By Daniel Stainkamp | September 13

These aren't your typical starving artists; they're aspiring revolutionaries. As an act of protest, the artists in "Follow Me Home," a film playing Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center, decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to paint a mural - on the White House. "Follow Me Home," the first in a series of four films included in The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, will be shown in the Stone Center Theatre and Auditorium. The festival includes lectures, exhibits and discussions in addition to films and concludes on Nov. 1.