A new Topgolf location opened in Durham on Friday, April 12, blending real-world and digital fun.
In January, the Ackland Art Museum held a ceremony to return a painting to the heirs of a Jewish lawyer whose collection was seized and auctioned off in Nazi-occupied France. This ceremony is just one in a trend of returning looted art to its rightful owners.
When Larry Goldberg started as a teaching assistant in 1963, Kennedy was president and the Beatles still wore suits and ties. The number of tenure-track faculty and undergraduate students has steadily decreased since then, and Goldberg's beloved eight-semester "Great Books" course was one of the casualties of the humanities' decline.
"Readers of Shakespeare will be familiar with the murder and marriage dynamics of the protagonist’s family, but the play goes beyond its loose source material. It uses its characters to interrogate the struggles of being gay and lesbian in the rural South."
"But really, like with the born-and-bred fans of UNC or any team, we knew that our passion rested not on rational grounds, but a sense of commitment to our city. But suddenly the program looked so sleazy that it was just no longer tenable."
"After catching up on our breaks, Victor threw out a pitch — what if we went to the Yellow Deli, a restaurant he absolutely loved, tomorrow? Only two catches: it was over two hours away and owned and operated by a cult."
Marketed as “the last Beatles song,” "Now and Then" was based on an unfinished demo by John Lennon after the band’s breakup. In 1995, 15 years after Lennon died, the remaining three released two songs based on Lennon's demos with the original vocals. They recorded “Now and Then,” but decided to scrap it, as George Harrison felt Lennon’s audio to be too low-quality.What resulted was a strikingly poignant track, giving the impression of a conversation reaching across the decades and bridging the chasm of death. Two types of mourning intertwine in the chorus: Lennon mourning their old relationship and McCartney mourning Lennon’s 43 year absence, as they sing together for the final time “Now and then, I miss you / Now and then, I want you to be there for me / Always to return to me.”"
UNC Opera's fall show explored operas by early American composers such as Scott Joplin, Gian Carlo Menotti and Mark Adamo.
"In this 'Campus Quandaries' edition, Satchel Walton takes on the social politics of changing housemates and the morality of taking toilet paper from public restrooms."
"This all heightens the sense that the group dynamics of manly men in the 19th-century Wild West were not all that different from the dramatic slumber parties of middle school girls."
