Culture
Will Hemsworth and Chapel Hill native Mandy Brannon first met at a friend’s New Year’s Eve party in 2014. The two UNC alumni reconnected on their first date in May 2015, and they’ve been together ever since. A year-and-a-half later, the couple took a weekend getaway to Asheville where Will […]
I was nearly five when Daddy graduated from the UNC School of Medicine. I remember his black gown against a backdrop of pink azaleas in full bloom and the dark, angular shadows that his square cap cast on his young face that day. I remember holding his hand as I […]
Jessica Marsden met Alex Worsnip while they were both living in New Haven, Connecticut. Alex was pursuing a graduate degree and Jess was in law school at the time. After dating for a few years, they began to talk marriage. While Jess knew the engagement was coming, Alex wanted to […]
As Chapel Hill natives, Mary Lee Batista and Michael Hatley are no strangers to the White Cross area. Growing up together, Mary Lee and Michael became friends in elementary school. Michael went to Chapel Hill High School while Mary Lee attended Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough. The tight-knit community […]
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Walking into the newest exhibition at The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, feels like entering into a crowded room, even when there are no other visitors around. Vibrant eyes gaze back at you from portraits of American life, […]
Why did you go into nursing? “When I was about 10, I shared a Greyhound bus seat with a nursing student from Penn State who was poring over nursing textbooks the entire way. She shared them with me. I was fascinated and hooked.” What do you like most about your […]
Chapel Hill native JoBeth O’Neal first met Matt Marriott when they were in high school. (JoBeth attended East Chapel Hill High and Matt attended Riverside High in Durham.) At the end of 2014, JoBeth, an Appalachian State University grad and Matt, a UNC and UNC School of Law grad, reconnected […]
If there’s one thing new moms need, it’s a sense of community. So Rachel Burton was especially sad to leave Chatham County with her two little boys just when she’d discovered a wonderful group of active mothers through national fitness franchise FIT4MOM. A former competitive swimmer who’d studied nutrition in […]
If your holiday takeaways included giving or receiving a very shiny piece of jewelry that now adorns a ring finger, firstly, congratulations! Now it’s the new year, and the furor of announcing your new fiancee-status to the world and receiving lots of Instagram love is winding down. Like many newly […]
