The Daily Tar Heel

12/01/2025

COLUMN: "If you want to re-experience the magic of the original text and watch the scenes you imagined in your head come to life on the screen, it makes sense to want your adaptations as book-accurate as possible," Samiha Bala writes.

"Adaptations that only strive to do this have always fallen flat to me because if I want to re-experience a book I love, I can just re-read it."

"Here’s the truth: if I’m watching an adaptation of a book I love, I’d much rather be outraged than bored. And adaptations that are only re-makes, like the slew of Disney live-action movies, are, well, boring!"

12/01/2025

GUEST ESSAY: "Our country is in a historic crisis," writes Tim McGloin, (Retired) UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

"The Trump Administration is unleashing attacks on education, rolling back environmental protections, sending the military to face-down peaceful demonstrators and ignoring constitutional rights."

"We need a full-scale uprising sustained with unity from all sectors of society, and a willingness to go to jail."

12/01/2025

SATIRE: "Dear students of UNC-Chapel Hill," writes Margeaux Pierson.

"As the leader of a nomadic rat colony that resides in North Carolina, I have struggled these last few years to find my community a home. Recent storms have blown each of our forts stretched across the state into the ground.

"A few weeks ago, however, we came across a luxurious residence. And it was all thanks to UNC."

"As the leader of a nomadic rat colony that resides in North Carolina, I have struggled these last few years to find my community a home. Recent storms have blown each of our forts stretched across the state into the ground. A few weeks ago, however, we came across a luxurious residence. And it was....

12/01/2025

SATIRE: "Holiday dinners are supposed to focus on the very scripture of a HomeGoods pillow: family, love and laughter," Sydney Baker writes.

"Not politics. Not controversial celebrities. Not a contentious debate. So, I’ve compiled a cornucopia of events from this year that are perfectly permissible to discuss with your family this holiday season at the dinner table."

"I’ve compiled a cornucopia of events from this year that are perfectly permissible to discuss with your family this holiday season at the dinner table."

12/01/2025

Each November, UNC joins the nation in observing Native American Heritage Month. North Carolina has the largest American Indian population east of the Mississippi River, home to an estimated 122,000 Indigenous people and eight tribal nations.

In a state with a rich and checkered Native history, the month holds particular significance to the UNC community, as it reflects on the flagship University's past.

UNC's campus sits on the ancestral lands of the Occaneechi, Shakori, Eno and Sissipahaw peoples, and the University benefited from selling other Indigenous lands in North Carolina in its early years.

12/01/2025

Situated among the trees at Dix Park in Raleigh is a family of five massive wooden trolls. The statues, created by Thomas Dambo, come from a line of hundreds of other trolls located across the world.

The Dix Park Conservancy had to find 24 tons of reclaimed wood to build the trolls. Raleigh Reclaimed, various donors and Wake County's Habitat for Humanity helped source the wood, which had to come from land in the area.

Raleigh has a new exhibit featuring giant wooden trolls from a world-renowned artist.

12/01/2025

WOTS: Thanksgiving week has finally arrived, and students are beginning to rush off to visit family and friends and eat good food. But before campus completely empties, some UNC students are reflecting on what they are thankful for.

As the holiday season approaches, UNC students reflect on what they are thankful for this year.

11/29/2025

In the next episode of Tasting The Town, a persistent group of DTH editors and assistant editors continue looking for the top mozzarella sticks in Chapel Hill. They check out One40 Social and Rams Corner, searching for the longest cheese pull and best bite. Will they find it this time?

🎙️ Avery Thatcher, Taylor Motley, Jessica Hudnut and Sarah Clements.
🎥 May Proctor, N’Nia Brickhouse and Ksh*tiz Adhikari.

11/27/2025

In this episode of Hark The Pod, Sports Editor Matthew Maynard and Assistant Editors Brian D’Aguanno and Beckett Brantley talk through football’s loss to Duke, field hockey’s defeat in the Final Four, and men’s and women’s soccer’s tournament performance.

They finish up, looking forward to UNC men’s basketball’s upcoming match against Michigan State.

🎙️ Matthew Maynard, Beckett Brantley & Brian D’Aguanno.
🎥 Lev Bearman, May Proctor & Lauren Mallett.

11/26/2025

REVIEW: "Watching the second act of 'Wicked' inside the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, you see the tale of two best friends each finding their way amid wicked powers and a world fighting against them," Taylor Motley writes.

"Watching the second act in a movie theater as 'Wicked: For Good,' you observe the insistent use of CGI, a beige world and non-stop action interspersed with occasional songs."

"'Wicked: For Good' wants to tell the story of a wonderful land and powerful witches, but continuously fails to capture the magic that has made previous tales of Oz such mainstays in culture."

11/26/2025

In the newest episode of Tasting The Town, The Daily Tar Heel’s resident mozzarella stick experts, City & State Editor Taylor Motley, Assistant City & State Editors Sarah Clements and Jessica Hudnut and Digital Managing Editor Avery Thatcher searched for the best mozzarella sticks in Chapel Hill.

Stay tuned for part two.

🎙️ Avery Thatcher, Taylor Motley, Jessica Hudnut and Sarah Clements.

🎥 May Proctor, Jordyn Balam, N’Nia Brickhouse, Ksh*tiz Adhikari and Amelie Fawson.

11/26/2025

COLUMN: “While generations are often divided on social and political issues, delving into the details of your grandparents' love story offers a chance to discover common ground and shared history," Cooper Hall writes.

"When you talk to relatives about their pasts, you are mapping out the road that led you here. And once you can travel that road, you can better understand yourself, your family and your place in the world."

"The elders in our families led entire lives before we knew them. Have you ever wondered what clubs your grandpa was in during high school? Or the worst date your dad ever went on? It’s time we start asking."