Josephine Yurcaba

UNC Students Justin Bucher, Nick Peterson, Quinton Grady, Alex Joiner and Jorge Martinez-Blat (left to right) are members of the band Sky Cloud.

Louise Mann Clement

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SkyCloud started in a bathroom, now an EP

By Josephine Yurcaba | April 23

It all started two years ago in the corner bathroom of the 10th floor of Morrison Residence Hall in rooms 1055-1058.

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Review: Broadway-quality vocals, laughs boost ‘Avenue Q’

By Josephine Yurcaba | April 6

UNC Pauper Players’ “Avenue Q” combined two opposing elements — innocent-looking puppets and vulgar, crude humor — to teach audience members that the internet is only for porn.

Cassie Schutzer, Caroline Stewart, Mary Burke

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UNC students embrace changing technologies in art

By Josephine Yurcaba | March 17

Parachutes and box fans were suspended from the ceilings. Laser cutouts of animals were hanging from a fan and spinning around continuously, and the artist described them as “collaged cybernetic mythological creatures.”

David M Ward

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Orange County the backdrop for author’s second novel

By Josephine Yurcaba | January 15

Barbara Claypole White is turning dark moments light with her second and newest novel, “The In-Between Hour.”

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"Story of the Gun" address political, emotional issue of gun control

By Josephine Yurcaba | January 12

Mike Daisey’s “The Story of the Gun” presented a new and interesting way to approach gun control in the U.S.: It doesn’t exist.

Molly Laux and Valerie King show their painted hands after contributing their handprints to a banner that says, “Together we are brave.”

Zach Freshwater

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Program provides cancer patients student support

By Josephine Yurcaba | December 3

Senior Molly Laux was sitting in a UNC hospital room with her most recent CPAL, a young person with cancer who she was partnered with to support and befriend throughout his treatment, when “Wagon Wheel” came on the music TV channel. He danced around while lying in bed and sang along to the song, and she sang with him.

UNC Paupers Players are putting on a production of "Sweeney Todd" this Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights at the Historic Playmakers Theater. Student tickets are $5 and tickets for the public are $10.

Chris Griffin

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Pauper Players opens Sweeney Todd’s barber shop Friday

By Josephine Yurcaba | November 14

Come, take a seat in his chair and have a relaxing shave with a vengeful blade that cuts a little too close.

Carolina Company's next production is "Arsenic and Old Lace", a tale of older ladies who poison their guests in order to "save" them from their miserable lives.

Bernadine Dembosky, Marcela Guimaraes

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Dark wit takes the stage in "Arsenic and Old Lace"

By Josephine Yurcaba | October 31

The Brewster family is insane. The aunts kill old men with poisoned wine, the uncles perform plastic surgery on ex-criminals and only one person in the family realizes that all of it is wrong.

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Q&A with Cat Warren on the science of working dogs

By Josephine Yurcaba | October 2

Cat Warren, an English professor at N.C. State University, will be reading from her book, “What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs,” today at Flyleaf Books. Warren has been working with her German Shephard, Solo, for 8 years as a cadaver dog, whose job is to find people who have been reported missing and are often dead.

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Wale, Ace Hood to cost CUAB $90,000

By Josephine Yurcaba | September 22

Wale and Ace Hood will perform at the Nov. 2 Homecoming concert for a comparatively lower price than last year’s headliner, J. Cole.