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Two women snap a selfie with a pumpkin in front of the ocean (Max Matthews/The Seahawk).
Carolina Beach Pier Pumpkin Patch returns for 2025
Charlie Bayer, Staff Writer • October 23, 2025

This cozy fall event takes the universally loved tradition of going to a pumpkin patch and gives it a unique twist. It takes place on the...

Cover image of “Speak for Yourself (20th Anniversary Remaster)” (Courtesy of Megaphonic Records).
‘It’s impossible to ignore you’
Jackson Howard, Staff Writer • October 23, 2025

I learned about Imogen Heap, like many did, via the use of her song “Hide and Seek” in The Lonely Island's 2007 SNL digital short “Dear...

(Gracie Davis/The Seahawk)
FEATURE: Dr. Sarah Domet
Ashlynn Dziekiewicz, Culture Editor • October 7, 2025

“I’ve always been the kind of person who writes in order to understand the world around me,” said Dr. Sarah Domet with a smile. Domet is...

(Gracie Davis/The Seahawk)
Finding matcha: The search around Wilmington
Kayla White, Staff Writer • October 6, 2025

Everyone needs their morning or afternoon caffeine, but on occasion it is nice to cut down the high doses and resort a more relaxed amount. Brewed...

A turtle pokes his head out in Leutze Lake (Max Matthews/The Seahawk).
Lessons from UNCW’s turtles
Max Matthews, Staff Writer • October 2, 2025

After class, you decide to sit down on a bench overlooking one of UNCW’s several small ponds. This break is much needed; you’ve had a...

UNCW’s Project Please Stay chapter’s logo (Courtesy of Susannah Swindell).
Project Please Stay chapter grows at UNCW
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • October 2, 2025

Raising awareness for mental health advocacy is the mission of UNCW’s Project Please Stay, a club started in response to growing suicide rates...

Cover of Atlantis: A Creative Magazine Issue 98, Summer 2025 Staff Chapbook; Klebanow's first issue as Editor-in-Chief (Meghan Lewis/Atlantis Magazine).
Atlantis: A Creative Magazine introduces new Editor-in-Chief
Brielle Nugent, Staff Writer • September 30, 2025

At the start of the fall 2025 semester Atlantis: A Creative Magazine welcomed their new Editor-in-Chief, UNC-Wilmington senior Dalin Klebanow....

Contestants being performative males together (Max Matthews/The Seahawk).
‘Performative male’ contest held at UNCW
Max Matthews, Staff Writer • September 25, 2025

The recent online trend of “performative males” – over-the-top, female-worshipping men who engage in stereotypically feminine interests...

Banner made during recent meeting of compiled collages inspired by Swift's various "eras" (Courtesy of Kayla Brethauer).
The Swift Society returns after a cruel summer away
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • September 24, 2025

UNCW is home to over 300 clubs and organizations, but one club is making a shimmery mark on students who are fans of one of the biggest pop stars...

Promotional flyer for 48 Hour Film Competition (Courtesy of UNCW Randall Library's MakerStudio).
Be scared and prepared: UNCW Library’s 48 Hour Film Competition
Charlotte Thorne, Photography Editor • September 23, 2025

UNCW’s fourth annual 48 Hour Film Competition will soon be underway. For the past four years, Randall Library has hosted their biggest event...

Wednesday's live show at Lily's Snack Bar in Boone, N.C. in January 2024 (Jackson Howard/The Seahawk).
Confirmed: Wednesday is still the best day of the week
Jackson Howard, Staff Writer • September 23, 2025

On April 7, 2023, Pitchfork gave out an 8.8 Best New Music review to “one of the best indie rock bands around,” Wednesday, a band hailing...

Some attendees of the Patriot Day Ceremony (Deborah Williams/The Seahawk).
UNCW remembers the 9/11 attacks 24 years later
Deborah Williams, Staff Writer • September 17, 2025

24 years after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, the UNCW community gathered to remember, reflect and honor the lives lost on...

Starship robot leaving Seahawk Crossing after making a delivery (Addison Lowry/The Seahawk).
Starship robots could be UNCW’s next big thing
Addison Lowry, Opinion Editor • September 8, 2025

UNCW has a new food delivery system: Starship robots. These mobile robots serve as on-campus food delivery. Now — three weeks into the fall...

The official album art for Sabrina Carpenter's seventh studio album, "Man's Best Friend" (Bryce Anderson/Universal Music Group).
REVIEW: ‘Man’s Best Friend’ by Sabrina Carpenter: Is it stupid, slow or just bad songwriting?
Ashlynn Dziekiewicz, Culture Editor • September 7, 2025

Last week Sabrina Carpenter dropped her seventh studio album, “Man's Best Friend." In June, Carpenter faced immediate backlash when she...

(Illustration by Gracie Davis/The Seahawk).
How ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ overtook modern Disney twice over
Noah Phillips, Staff Writer • September 7, 2025

On June 20 of this year, Disney and Pixar released "Elio," an original film about a young boy obsessed with aliens winding up in space and being...