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Próximo, new restaurant from acclaimed chef and UNC alum Brandon Sharp, to open on Franklin Street

Próximo, a Spanish-style tapas restaurant, opens this Saturday, September 21, on Chapel Hill's Franklin Street, breathing life into the iconic Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe space that welcomed customers for nearly 50 years. Próximo is acclaimed chef Brandon Sharp and his wife, town council member Elizabeth Sharp's, big bet on rejuvenating Franklin Street. (Axios)

Mia Hamm To Deliver 2025 UNC Spring Commencement Address

Mia Hamm, the world-renowned soccer player and UNC alum, will deliver the 2025 Spring Commencement address, Chancellor Lee H. Roberts announced Thursday. The ceremony will be Saturday, May 10, in Kenan Stadium. Hamm led the Tar Heels to NCAA championships in 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1993 and was a two-time National Player of the Year. (GoHeels.com)

Remembering 9/11 Then and Now at Carolina

On Sept. 11, Carolina Alumni President Veronica Mora Flaspoehler ’08 laid flowers at the association’s 9/11 Memorial Garden on Stadium Drive, near the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, during the association’s annual memorial service for the six alumni killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Visitors pay their respects at 8:46 and 10:03 a.m. (Carolina Alumni Review)

Carolina Insider Podcast - UNC Football Discussion, Ted Keith Interview

UNC Football pulled away from NC Central on Saturday as the quarterback position took center stage. Jones Angell and Adam Lucas discuss the Tar Heels' win over the Eagles (4:36). Ted Keith from Sports Business Journal talks about his time at Carolina, the golden age of Sports Illustrated, and the changing media landscape (46:39). (Read More...)

A New Book Reflects on the Legacy of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, UNC Professor Paul Green

Paul Green's longest legacy, The Lost Colony, first produced in 1937, is still running today at the Outer Banks every summer. His literary friendships—with Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Sherwood Anderson, among others—ran deep. A graduate of UNC, Green continued his career at the state’s flagship university, teaching philosophy and the dramatic arts. (Indy Week)

VooDoo Wings restaurant opens on Franklin Street

VooDoo Wings Co., which had its Chapel Hill grand opening at 147 E. Franklin St. on Aug. 17, hosts a menu of flavored chicken wings, sauces, sides, sliders, desserts and more. Sunny Kumar, the owner of the Chapel Hill franchise, said the energy of students and visitors from the area proved a good demographic to inspire the opening of a branch. (Daily Tar Heel)

Chapel Hill: The College Town That’s Been Partying Since 1793

Carolina bleeds Tar Heel blue, but the spirit is strongest in Chapel Hill. The ram’s head mascot is everywhere from bar cups to barber shops. Blue-clad students fill every storefront on Franklin Street. But there’s more to Chapel Hill than just hoops, and if you look beyond the Smith Center, you’ll find a place teeming in history, science, and natural beauty. (Thrillist)

Hundreds remember 9/11 heroes at Kenan Memorial Stadium stair climb Wednesday

James Calfa remembers Sept. 11, 2001. The UNC Army ROTC master sergeant was in high school and staying in Manhattan with family for his brother’s cancer treatment, when they heard about planes hitting the World Trade Center towers. Calfa joined around 1,500 people in the 10th annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb in Kenan Stadium Wednesday. (UNC.edu)

New bar set to open on Franklin Street, reflects owner's Chapel Hill history

When Michael Rosenbacher was a student at the University of North Carolina, he said that he saw Franklin Street as a place for all of Chapel Hill to come together. Now, he’s opening a space that he hopes will recreate that feeling. Max’s Tin Can, located at 201 E. Franklin St., is a new bar located beneath Time-Out in the former Downtime nightclub space. (Daily Tar Heel)

Carolina remembers Zijie Yan, ‘master of light and matter’

Zijie Yan’s death shook the Chapel Hill community last August, bringing Carolina students and faculty together to mourn. A year later, Richard Superfine and the Applied Physical Sciences department are still working through their grief for the loss of their beloved colleague. APS faculty honor him daily through their resilience — by pressing on with their science. (UNC.edu)

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