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Alyssa on
21 July 2010, 11:31 am
As Elvis Costello said about describing sound with written word, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” While we don’t think it’s stupid, we certainly recognize the difficulty of the task (on a side note, if anyone wants to dance about architecture, please YouTube it [...] Read more »
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Alyssa on
15 June 2010, 2:36 pm
Leonard Rogoff, author of Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, will be reading from and signing his book tonight at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh starting at 7:30 pm. Rogoff, a historian for the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, writes about the life of Jewish [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Events, Interviews, Jewish Studies, North Carolina, Religion, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged book signing, event, exhibit, History, Jewish Heritage Foundation, jewish life, jewish life in north carolina, JHFNC, Jim Hunt, leonard rogoff, minorities, North Carolina
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Beth on
5 February 2010, 4:13 pm
AND NOW . . . the story of a regular man whose job is to find the Big Ideas peeking out from the small foibles and successes of our everyday lives . . . the story of a man who helps us not only to hear them, but also to feel them. Act I, Scene [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, Events, Media Studies.
Tagged alexa dilworth, documentary radio, hearing voices, ira glass, jay allison, john biewen, media, national public radio, podcast, prx, radiolab, rick moody, sandy tolan, scott carrier, soundprint, storycorps, the kitchen sisters, this american life, transom
Posted by
Ellen on
16 October 2009, 1:31 pm
It’s official! The University of North Carolina Tar Heels kick off their 2009-2010 Men’s Basketball season tonight with the annual “Late Night with Roy” festivities at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill. And that means UNC Press is off and running with the publication of One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina [...] Read more »
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Rose on
6 October 2009, 10:18 am
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court began their annual session with the newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, joining in for the first time. And she jumped right in with both feet, asking lots of questions of the lawyers appearing before the court that day. A couple of weeks ago, as part of the New York Yankees’ Hispanic [...] Read more »
Filed under Events, Latin American/Caribbean Hist., Sports, UNC Press News.
Tagged american culture, Cesar J. Ayala, hispanic culture, Hispanic Heritage Month, Much More than a Game, Never Just a Game, New York Yankees, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the American Century, Robert Burk, Sonia Sotomayor, Yankee Stadium
Posted by
Rose on
11 September 2009, 12:56 pm
If you are like me, you look forward to the weekends, but dread spending the annoying amounts of money that usually accompany your weekend entertainment. Well, this weekend, you are in luck. If you are going to be in or around Chapel Hill this weekend, you MUST check out The North Carolina Literary Festival on [...] Read more »
Filed under Events, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged barbara duncan, blues, Bookmarks Festival of Books, Chapel Hill, cherokee, Give my Poor Heart Ease, holy smoke, lars schoultz, Long Story Short, Marianne Gingher, North Carolina Literary Festival, roy underhill, short-shorts, unc, will mckinney, William Ferris, Winston-Salem, woodwrights guide
Posted by
Ellen on
4 September 2009, 2:34 pm
“Drink your teeeeee!” That would be the song of the male Eastern Towhee, according to the Learn Bird Songs! website. You can hear the songs of nearly three dozen species there, and hone your imitation on the way to Atlanta this weekend. John Yow, the Armchair Birder, will be at the Decatur Book Festival Sunday [...] Read more »
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admin on
16 July 2009, 1:02 pm
Looking for something new, fun and relatively inexpensive to do this summer? Several counties and towns in western North Carolina offer a variety of festivals, celebrations, and cultural events that feature bluegrass music, dance, and traditional food of Southern Appalachia. The festivals in western NC are a sample of what is offered all along the [...] Read more »
Filed under Appalachian Studies, Cooking / Food, Current Events, Events, Music, Native American Studies, North Carolina, Travel.
Tagged appalachian road trip, blue mountain inn, blue ridge mountains, bluegrass music, cherokee bluegrass festival, cherokee nc, clogging, country vittles restaurant, fiddle music, fred fussell, h. f. robinson, haywood county courthouse, haywood county nc, jam sessions, jo sam queen, lake junaluska, maggie valley opry house, mountain heritage center, mountain heritage day, mountain street dance, raymond fairchild, sam queen, scotch-irish, scots-irish, smoky mountain folk festival, smoky mountain jamboree, soco gap square dance team, southern appalachia, stuart auditorium, swain county nc, waynesville nc, western north carolina university
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admin on
9 July 2009, 1:05 pm
This week’s installment of Tar Heel Trek visit the county of Sampson, located in the coast plain of North Carolina. Formed in 1784, Sampson County is largely rural county that produces as many hogs as almost anywhere else in the country – the roughly 2 million hogs there outnumber their human neighbors 33 to one. [...] Read more »
Filed under Events, North Carolina, Southern Studies, Sports.
Tagged Boing Boing, coastal plain, hogs, Nathan's Hot Dogs, National Hollerin' Contest, North Carolina, Sampson County, Spivey's Corner, Tar Heel Trek
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admin on
13 May 2009, 9:47 am
Last summer Rachel blogged about a new Mellon-funded project aimed at sharing scholarship on the civil rights movement. Last month, Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement (LCRM) sponsored a wildly successful conference here at UNC to discuss the project and possibilities for scholarly collaboration. LCRM director Sylvia Miller described the conference this way: All of [...] Read more »
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admin on
11 May 2009, 10:41 am
As Townsend, Tennessee, gears up for Troutfest 2009, Knox.com features a story about the book that will be helping generate funds for the fly-fishing exposition, Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies, by Jim Gasque. Writer Chad Gay caught up with Dan Pitts, president of the Great Smoky Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, who helped [...] Read more »
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21 April 2009, 1:54 pm
New York, NY – Today! Tuesday 4/21 at 6 pm – Ann Marie Stock, author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (hot off the press!), will be speaking at the Havana Film Festival at the King Juan Carlos Center. Raleigh, NC – Wed., 4/22 at 11 am – Rob Christensen, [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Birds & Birding, Cooking / Food, Cuba, Events, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Local Indy Booksellers, Media Studies, Military Studies, Nature, North Carolina, Politics, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged ann marie stock, armchair birder, bbq, cuban filmmakers, dale volberg reed, E. Patrick Johnson, gerda lerner, giovannis room, havana film festival new york, holy smoke, john shelton reed, john yow, joshua howard, malaprops bookstore, monticello, temple beth or raleigh nc, thomas jefferson
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14 April 2009, 1:01 pm
Upcoming author events, including a C-SPAN taping tonight! Today, Tuesday, 4/14: John & Dale Reed in Kernersville, NC - Shakespeare & Company Books in Kernersville hosts the authors of Holy Smoke at 6 pm. Lars Schoultz in Durham, NC – The author of That Infernal Little Cuban Republic will read and speak at the Regulator [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Birds & Birding, Cooking / Food, Events, History, Latin American/Caribbean Hist., Law / Legal History, Military History, Nature, North Carolina, Politics, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged abraham lincoln, anna hayes, backyard birding, battle of guilford courthouse, bbq, birding, bulls head bookshop, carolina college for lifelong learning, gerda lerner, john and dale reed, john yow, joshua howard, lars schoultz, lawrence babits, lynn coulter, nancy carter crump, regulator bookshop, russell mcclintock, salem college, shakespeare and company books kernersville
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6 April 2009, 10:15 am
The Tar Heels are on order by the Commander in Chief to win the NCAA tourney tonight. Go Heels!! Here’s a preview of tonight’s celebration on Franklin Street. This video was shot on Saturday, when the Tar Heels beat Villanova in the final four. Hopefully any potential thunderstorms and tornadoes will happen sooner rather than [...]
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Cooking / Food, Events, Gender Studies, History, Local Indy Booksellers, North Carolina, Public Policy, Religion, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged a room of one's own, anthea butler, barbecue, bbq, charles irons, church of god in christ, dale volberg reed, gerda lerner, john shelton reed, lisa levenstein, slavery, unc basketball, wilson library
