The Nasher Museum of Art has conjured up a dynamic group of speakers to paint a fuller picture of artist Romare Bearden, whose attention-grabbing works are presently casting their spell on Nasher's...
Manbites Dog Theater brings Joel Drake Johnson's new play Fall to Earth from downtown Chicago to downtown Durham. In its new location, the play is directed by Jeff Storer, artistic director at...
Recently, Hollywood has begun congratulating itself on tackling "tough issues" in its films. Movies like Good Night and Good Luck and Syriana delve into politics, while Crash and Brokeback Mountain...
In 1978, Devo stumbled into the national spotlight with Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!.
Visualize a ravioli with a filling of fruit juice, encased in a gelatinized version of the juice itself.
Very few college students-or artists for that matter-can claim that a piece of their work was displayed in a local Neiman Marcus. Junior Annie Shinn, however, nonchalantly mentioned that she...
With record sale slumps at major labels and the closing or reformatting of dozens of radio stations, the future of the music industry seems to have shifted toward the Internet.
Every so often a new restaurant will single-handedly raise the bar for all other competitors in the area. Bin Fifty-Four, a new Chapel Hill steakhouse, is that restaurant. The "steakhouse" label...
Hollywood's most glamorous night-and all the buzz preceding it-is, at last, over. With some predictions on target (Philip Seymur Hoffman got himself a shiny statue) and others disproved (the...
Ordering off a traditional steakhouse menu can be an unfamiliar task to the novice diner. No, you likely won't have a choice between a cup of soup or a house salad. And chances are your server...
Stars will once again sweep their way across the Academy Awards' famed red carpet Sunday while all of Los Angeles (and much of America) watches. It will be, without a doubt, Us Weekly's favorite...
More than 500 students gathered in Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch the men's basketball away game against UNC Feb. 7. But to ESPN, the network that aired the match, and its advertisers, the room...
Next week, basketball hero Grant Hill is returning to campus. But this time around, he will likely be spending more time in the Nasher Museum of Art than in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Hill will be...
The newest exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art, is "Something All Our Own" in more ways than one. Not only is that the title of the African American art exhibit which opens Saturday, but the show...
Romare Bearden's art is the riffing of a bluesy cornet to the midcult art world's ubiquitous Bach suite. It lacks the chilled fragility of landscapes or portraiture; it surpasses the folksy kitsch...
Picture this: the only glow in the room comes from the fourth-straight episode of SportsCenter. Sleep should have come hours ago, but work and insomnia force a few more hours of wakefulness....
A woman steps into the spotlight and proclaims, "You know what I hate? Dating." That was the first of a number of strong statements which opened All of the Above, a series of monologues about the...
Cult indie-pop darlings Belle and Sebastian, whose name comes from a French children's book, now have a book of their own. In Image Comics' new release, Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle and...
His may not be a household name, but William Greaves has left an indelible mark on the world of documentary filmmaking. With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Greaves has produced more than over...
He might reference Marx and decry mainstream rap, but MC Dalek says he's 100-percent hip-hop. "People are convinced that what we do isn't hip-hop because of what's conveyed through mainstream...
