'It’s really not up to us': Chapel Hill movie theater owners await reopening
Posted Sep 27, 2020
Some local theaters have considerable ties to Chapel Hill history. Perhaps most integral is the Varsity, whose building has housed a movie theater since 1927. To watch a film at the Varsity is to enter a time machine, where movies are cultural king. Film professor Rick Warner said that if places like the Varsity and the Chelsea were shuttered, it would be a catastrophe.
(Daily Tar Heel)
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