Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census, making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state capital, Raleigh, make up the corners of the Research Triangle, with a total population of 2,106,463 in 2020.
WUNC is a listener-supported public radio station, serving the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. It is licensed to Chapel Hill and is operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On weekdays, WUNC carries National Public Radio, American Public Media, Public Radio Exchange, and BBC programming in an "all-news-and-information" format, including shows such as All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Fresh Air. On weekends, in addition to NPR weekend shows, WUNC broadcasts locally produced folk music programming. The longest-running continuously produced program offered by the station is Back Porch Music, a weekly folk and traditional music program. WUNC holds periodic on-air fundraisers seeking listener contributions.
Lindsey Shaw is an American actress. She is known for playing Jennifer "Moze" Mosely on the Nickelodeon series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. She also co-starred in the 2007 CW sitcom Aliens in America, and was the lead on ABC Family's 2009 comedy series 10 Things I Hate About You. From 2011 to 2017, she played the recurring role of Paige McCullers on the ABC Family teen drama series Pretty Little Liars.
The University of North Carolina Center for Public Media, branded on-air as PBS North Carolina or commonly PBS NC, is a public television network serving the state of North Carolina. It is operated by the University of North Carolina system, which holds the licenses for all but one of the thirteen PBS member television stations licensed in the state—WTVI in Charlotte is owned by Central Piedmont Community College. The broadcast signals of the twelve television stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The network's operations are located at the UNC Center for Public Television at Research Triangle Park between Raleigh and Durham.
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area and counties. Its first issue was published in April 1983.
Peyton Tucker Reed is an American television and film director. He directed the comedy films Bring It On, Down with Love, The Break-Up, and Yes Man, as well as the superhero film Ant-Man and its sequels.
Jeff Hart and the Ruins were a four-piece Americana and alt.country-styled power pop band composed of Jeff Hart (musician), Brian Yamamoto, Symen Blumenfeld and John Flowers. After 23 years under that name, they became Jefferson Hart & The Ghosts of the Old North State in January 2013.
The Brewery was a music venue located on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Brewery was opened in 1983 by Kenny Hobby and later reopened in 2004 by Tom Taylor. The Brewery had long been a stop for up-and-coming touring acts as well as established acts with a somewhat diminished fan base. In 2011 The Brewery officially closed its doors after 28 years and the building was demolished.
Chatham County Line aka "CCL" is an American Americana musical group. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1999 from members of the band Stillhouse, the band has released ten albums on the Yep Roc label, and have become popular in Europe as well as their native United States.
Scott Yancey Avett is one of the lead singers and founding members of the folk-rock band, The Avett Brothers. Avett primarily plays the banjo but also plays harmonica, drums, piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar for the band based out of Concord, North Carolina. In 2008, their album, The Second Gleam, reached the ten spot on Billboard.com's Top Independent Albums Chart. Avett is also an accomplished artist and printmaker. His work has been displayed in exhibitions at the Envoy Gallery in New York City and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Declan Feenan is a playwright from Northern Ireland. His plays have been produced in Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Raleigh, North Carolina, and New York City.
Yusuf Salim, born Joseph Blair, was an American jazz pianist and composer.
James Hepler is an American musician. Associated with several local North Carolina musical groups, Hepler plays several musical instruments and is most recognized for his drumming, playing with the bands I Was Totally Destroying It and Sorry About Dresden.
Jeanne Jolly is a singer-songwriter from Raleigh, North Carolina, who first gained fame as a featured vocalist for Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. Jolly has performed with several symphonies, at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California.
The Pour House Music Hall is a music venue located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Pour House was opened in 1997 by Eric Mullen but eventually changed hands in 2012 to current owner Adam Lindstaedt. For a brief period in 2011 Mullen had opened up a second location in Wilmington, North Carolina with some business partners but after a few months they severed ties and the Wilmington venue was renamed The Port City Theatre.
I Hate Fairyland is a black comedy fantasy comic written and illustrated by Skottie Young, and published by Image Comics, which started publication in October 2015. The comic follows Gertrude "Gert", a woman who was transported to a mystical world called Fairyland as a child. Twenty-seven years later, Gert is now an un-aging, violent misanthrope who, alongside her reluctant guide and friend Larry, constantly tries and fails to return to Earth, across the storylines Madly Ever After, Fluff My Life, Good Girl, I Hate Image, Sadly Never After, Fluff the World, Gert's Inferno, and Last Gert Standing.
Southern Bastards is a comic book series created in 2014 by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, and published by Image Comics. The series revolves around the culture in a small town in the American South where football is everything and people try to get away with crime. The series won the 2015 Harvey Award for Best New Series and the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series.
I Hate Fairyland – Madly Ever After is a graphic novel, written and illustrated by Skottie Young that was released in five parts throughout 2015 and 2016 by Image Comics, as the first volume of the comic book series of the same name, set in the Image Universe. Part 1 was released on October 14, 2015, Part 2 was released on November 18, 2015, Part 3 was released on December 16, 2015, Part 4 was released on January 20, 2016, and Part 5 was released on February 17, 2016.
I Hate Fairyland – Fluff My Life is a graphic novel, written and illustrated by Skottie Young that was released in five parts throughout 2016 by Image Comics, as the second volume of the comic book series of the same name, set in the Image Universe. Part 1, Fluff My Life was released on June 15, 2016, Part 2, How to Drain Your Dragon, was released on July 20, 2016, Part 3, Put Your Quarter Up, was released on August 17, 2016, Part 4, Splat in the Hat, was released on September 21, 2016, and Part 5, Final Fantasy, was released on October 19, 2016.
I Hate Fairyland – Gert's Inferno is a graphic novel, written by Skottie Young and illustrated by Brett Bean that was released in five parts throughout 2022 and 2023 by Image Comics, as the first volume of the 2022 revival of Young's 2015–2018 isekai comic book series of the same name, set in the Image Universe, and the fifth volume overall. Part 1, Fairyland!, was released on November 16, 2022, Part 2, The Inferno, was released on December 21, 2022, Part 3, Gertlins!, was released on January 18, 2023, Part 4, Intervention?!, was released on February 15, 2023, and Part 5, This World, was released on March 15, 2023, including a soundtrack by Jack the Radio.
