Category: Features

daniel wirtheim, Features

The art of craft beer labels

By Daniel Wirtheim, Features Editor Published in print Mar. 4, 2015 Featured above, a label from Uinta Brewing’s Hop Nosh IPA. Notice the vintage color scheme, as well as the use of agricultural elements. It’s meaning is up for interpretation, but this writer feels that the label is somehow a reflection of changing values in American consumerism, championing the handcrafted over the mass-produced. Featured above, a label from … Continue reading The art of craft beer labels

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Features, lauren cherry

Letters from Abroad: Rennes, France

By Lauren Cherry, Special to The Carolinian Published in print Mar. 4, 2015      I don’t think I’ve fully realized that I’m in France yet. I know that I took a flight from Charlotte to Philadelphia, and from there to Paris but it still hits me at random times. It shouldn’t be that hard for me to understand that I’m here seeing as how I do … Continue reading Letters from Abroad: Rennes, France

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Features, Victoria Starbuck

‘The White Paper Method’

By Victoria Starbuck, Staff Writer Published in print Mar. 4, 2015 For Dr. Bruce Kirchoff, part of a professor’s duty is to inspire the students that fill the rows of his classroom. As the keynote speaker for this year’s annual Honors Symposium, Dr. Kirchoff closed the daylong event on Friday with a presentation on the relationship between student and professor. A professor in the Biology department at … Continue reading ‘The White Paper Method’

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Features, Mary Windsor

Cyrus sings at The People’s Perk

By Mary Windsor, Staff Writer Published in print Mar. 4, 2015 “Something’s going on around here,” sang Cyrus Smith, strumming his guitar, he waxes poetic and sings melodious tunes on Friday nights at The People’s Perk, the recently opened coffee shop on Mendenhall Street. Smith is a relocated artist, musician and museum curator from Portland, Oregon. He moved away from lush forests and overcast skies and has … Continue reading Cyrus sings at The People’s Perk

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Features, Mary Windsor, quinn hunter

Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference

By Mary Windsor, Staff Writer Published in print Feb. 25, 2015    This Saturday, UNCG hosted the Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference, an all day event that consisted of motivational speakers and different workshops gusts could attend to find out more information on everything from breaking into the industry, following your dreams and legal issues creators encounter in the business.    Stephen Levitin, known as Apple … Continue reading Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference

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Catie Byrne, Features

Zones of Contention: At the Green Line

By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer Published in print Feb. 25, 2015 On Feb. 19, the Weatherspoon Art Museum held Zones of Contention: At the Green line, a point of view discussion with George Scheer, founder of the thrift-store-turned-museum Elsewhere and Cora Fisher, the curator of SECCA in Winston-Salem, to explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through art. Scheer opened the discussion with his personal experiences celebrating non-traditional Passovers, explaining … Continue reading Zones of Contention: At the Green Line

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Features, Victoria Starbuck

One student sees an opportunity to serve the world

By Victoria Starbuck, Staff Writer Published in print Feb. 25, 2015 A new opportunity to serve has come to the UNCG campus. On Mondays and Wednesdays, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Regina Da Silva and other volunteers will be in the EUC Atrium, collecting empty medicine bottles to aid in the distribution of medicine in Mozambique. Doctors of Mozambique do not have access to … Continue reading One student sees an opportunity to serve the world

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Features, Jackson Cooper

An ex-editor on British Conservatism

By Jackson Cooper, Staff Writer Published in print Feb. 25, 2015 Anthony Ridge-Newman may be, next to my editor, the most interesting man in the world. He is not only a respected UNCG alumnus, and a former News Editor of The Carolinian, but he has also successfully earned a PhD from the University of London. He became a UK councilor and published a book on British Conservatism … Continue reading An ex-editor on British Conservatism

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Features, molly ashline

V-Day: The ‘V’ is for Vagina

By Molly Ashline, Staff Writer It is not often that one can walk into a dark theater on a chilly night in Greensboro and hear the words “vagina” and “cunt” repeated hundreds of times, but that’s what the Vagina Monologues are about. This tradition of saying semi-taboo words reached its fifth year with the completion of a three-night vagina fest last week, running from Feb. … Continue reading V-Day: The ‘V’ is for Vagina

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