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‘Violet’ Opens At PlayMakers Theater Featuring Local Students

Posted by Staff | Jul 18, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured

Twenty-three students from 17 different high schools have taken over Chapel Hill’s PlayMakers Theater. With opening night of their musical, ‘Violet’, just around the corner, the students of the Summer Youth...

Pokemon Go App Brings Nostalgia and Business Opportunities to Chapel Hill

Posted by Staff | Jul 11, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured

Nostalgia from the 1990s is taking over the world. Pokémon, the popular game, television and card series, is making a comeback with a new app for your Smartphone. Now that familiar little black and yellow creature is back, and...

Negro League Legends Return to Hillsborough for Museum

Posted by Staff | Jul 1, 2016 | Entertainment

Derrick Jones’ hobby has grown so big, that he’s turned it into a traveling museum. Jones, a former educator and baseball enthusiasts, has been collecting memorabilia from the Negro Leagues for more than 20 years. Now, he...

Squirrel Nut Zippers to Re-Release ‘Hot’ Album

Posted by Staff | Jun 7, 2016 | Entertainment

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the Squirrel Nut Zippers’ platinum selling album “Hot.” The Chapel Hill band’s second album has sold 1.3 million copies since its June 4, 1996 release. Squirrel...

Dead & Company to Donate $100,000 to Effort to Repeal HB2

Posted by Staff | Jun 2, 2016 | Entertainment

Dead & Company, a band comprised of members of Grateful Dead and singer-guitarist John Mayer, will perform in Charlotte on June 10. On Thursday, the band announced that they would be donating $100,000 to organizations...

Cat’s Cradle Lands High On List of America’s Best Music Venues

Posted by Staff | Jun 1, 2016 | Entertainment

Cat’s Cradle has been a live music staple for over 40 years. The Carrboro music venue has gotten plenty of national attention over the years and that has not stopped. Consequence of Sound, a notable online music magazine,...

More Bands Speak Out Against HB2

Posted by Staff | May 23, 2016 | Entertainment

Dave Matthews Band and The Lumineers will play concerts in North Carolina despite concerns about the controversial HB2 legislation. Both bands will donate proceeds from their shows to organizations fighting to overturn the law....

Maroon 5 Cancels North Carolina Concerts

Posted by Staff | May 20, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured

Citing HB2, Maroon 5 has cancelled two North Carolina concerts. The band was scheduled to play at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte on September 11 and at PNC Arena in Raleigh on September 12. Maroon 5 released a statement...

Elton John Criticizes Pat McCrory’s ‘Ignorance of Trans Identity’

Posted by Staff | May 17, 2016 | Entertainment

Elton John has joined the growing group of celebrities and musicians speaking out against House Bill 2. Tuesday morning, he published an op-ed in “The Hill” which criticizes North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory’s “ignorance of...

Chapel Hillian Survives The Jungle On “Naked And Afraid”

Posted by Aaron Keck | May 5, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured

Karen Coffee appeared on the Discovery Channel show “Naked and Afraid” last month.

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