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Live your ‘Buried Life’

Lauren Clairmont | Staff Writer January 25, 2012

There comes a time in everyone's life when they are forced to make a choice—go to class or skip it, call the girl who sits in front of you in English Lit or let her go date someone else, carpe diem or...

Brikhouse opens and hosts band festival

Kristiana Sigmon | Contributing Writer January 25, 2012

The Brikhouse Band Festival welcomed everyone in Wilmington to come and dance the night away while listening to great music played by local bands. This past Friday, Brikhouse hosted six bands all with...

REVIEW: Ellen Hopkins’ “Perfect” isn’t so perfect after all

Kristiana Sigmon | Contributing Writer January 25, 2012

"Why push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree?" Ellen Hopkins' newest young adult novel discusses the lives of four teenagers on the brink of graduating high school who...

Early Birds Get the Worm: Review of the Toughest Class in the Major

Angela Hunt | Photography Editor January 18, 2012

UNCW, affectionately known as The Dub, has the reputation of a big, bad brother. He gets up around noon to work out so his V shows up well while he's on his surfboard until dinner. He runs to a class around...

Randall Library Presents Their Annual Flash Fiction Contest

Jordan Wilkins | Staff Writer January 18, 2012

Flash fiction is a style of fictional writing or a short form of storytelling that requires extreme conciseness. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described...

The Book of Wesley: UNCW alumni forms local theater troupe

Kiersten Wiles | Contributing Writer January 11, 2012

"There are three types of people in this world: leaders, followers and people who should get the fuck out of the way."Wesley Brown's father, Phil, taught him that life lesson, and he has remembered it...

REVIEW: Hip-hop heartthrob wallows some more, steps up his game

Pernille Larsen | Contributing Writer January 11, 2012

Heart-on-sleeve confessional lyrics used to be considered an intrinsically female mode. Their frequent resemblance to dreary diary entries, void of poetic sensibility and full of self-pity, meant that...

Christmas albums bring holiday spirit to audiences

Shelby Purvis | Staff Writer December 7, 2011

It's Christmas time once again. The time of year where Christmas tree lots pop up in parking lots overnight, everyone is shopping for the perfect gifts, and, of course, Christmas music starts playing everywhere....

Christmas at the ‘Dub’

Corey Strickland | Staff Writer December 7, 2011

While most UNCW students elect to go home during the Christmas holiday, there are plenty of events in town to keep those who stay in the Christmas spirit.The Seahawk has highlighted some of Wilmington's...

Myra Tejada: the girl who ran ’til her knees bled

Anglea Hunt | Photography Editor November 30, 2011

The time was 7:15 a.m. The fog wouldn't roll over the mountains until later. The downpour the evening before had robbed the air of all its moisture; it was clear, fresh. A horn echoed throughout Discovery...

Twilight: Breaking Dawn and making bank

Lauren Clairmont | Staff Writer November 30, 2011

Closing the box office with $139.5 million opening weekend, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1" is nothing if not profitable. But is the movie really worth a $10-plus trip to the theater? Or...

REVIEW: ‘The Descendants’ is a dreary, yet poignant film

John DeLong | Contributing Writer November 30, 2011

Alexander Payne has the odd habit of turning even the bleakest stories into some of the most pleasant and loving experiences you will have at the cinema. At least, that's how I view him. It's been seven...

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