A drag show to benefit Alamance Pride was hosted last night at the Jazznmore in downtown Burlington.
When Drew Redington, Matt Meigs and Gerald Caesar took the stage on Broadway this fall, they remembered how Elon’s music theatre program prepared them for their career debut.
Senior Zoe Ross-Nash was called No-Ass Ross-Nash throughout her childhood and high school, so she tore up paper and started a movement to fight her and others insecurities. "I’m going to rip that up and just love me for my body and love myself for my body, so goodbye, No-Ass Ross-Nash,” Ross-Nash explains in a January Facebook video as she tears up a piece of paper with her long-held insecurity written on it.
Wrapped in blankets, huddled in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center around 3 a.m. Saturday morning, juniors Genny Tankosich and Karolina Bohn put their final edits on their script for The 24 Hour Plays to be handed off to a director in approximately three hours. Their writing process began at 7:30 p.m.
On Sunday September 11th, The Elon Community Church hosted their sixth annual Dog-Day Mixer on the Church’s front lawn.
At 7:30 p.m. Friday, six teams of writers will begin to write their own play. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday night, these plays will be performed to an audience in Whitely. Put on by Elon University’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega (APO), the national theater honors society, 24 Hour Plays gives six different teams of writers, directors and actors exactly 24 hours to create a play. According to Doug Del Pizzo, the president of APO, at 7:30 all members will come in for a meeting and at 8:30 the writing teams will be given a genre ranging from mockumentary to action adventure and a cast size to write for.
Elon students of all years lounge cross-legged next to each other on bean bag chairs, snacking on fruit, biscotti and homemade cookies. What may seem like an afternoon at Irazu is, in reality, the first Sacred Sounds Coffee House.
Driving through the Graham town square, it's impossible to miss Press Coffee+Crepes. The exterior of the coffee and crepes shop is painted dark blue, a contrast to the light white and pastel facades that line the rest of North Main Street. The interior is just as unexpected — quiet indie music, stone tables, reclaimed wooden chairs, exposed brick walls and , all lit with bare lightbulbs hanging on burnished copper wires from the black applique ceiling.
A lively couch with multicolored prints takes over the living room in senior Katharine Mann’s house.
The man who goes by Uncle Harold, who has seen downtown Burlington dwindle and re-develop for over thirty years, has recently taken on his newest business venture with Jazznmore, a bar, club and event center on Spring Street in Burlington.
Each year, Elon University President Leo Lambert highlights three students in his convocation speech. These three students represent a fraction of those that have done extracurricular activities and described to their peers, in front of parents and faculty.
Looking at the Elon University banners on the light posts, Carrie Seigler still couldn't believe she was working at the university. As the Truitt Center’s new multi-faith and intern coordinator, she arrived on campus two months ago after spending two years post-grad in New York City.
The Town of Elon finishes up the “Alive After Five” summer concert series Thursday September 8.
In their self-proclaimed “political” show, The Second City performed almost two hours of sketch and improv comedy for a nearly full house in McCrary Theatre Thursday night. Hailing from Chicago, The Second City opened in 1959 and has produced comedy greats like Tina Fey, Gilda Radner, and Joan Rivers.
Senior Sara Galinko had no idea she would end up saving a dog's life.
Elon University has welcomed more than 1,500 incoming students this week, but one new face has been here since the start of August: Julia Bleakney, the new Writing Center director in The Center for Writing Excellence.
Walking into Redefinery & Co., you’re immediately hit with a wave of trendiness. The dimly lit space is open, with cozy couches, a few tables, vintage art and black-and-white films projected on the wall. Patrons are casually sipping on classy cocktails and eating appetizers called tapas.
Since his opportunities for college nightlife was mostly restricted to West End Terrance, Tony’s Pub-N-Subs and The Fat Frogg, Adam Salaymeh ’16 always wanted a way to explore the rest of the North Carolina nightlife scene. After working at Rally, a crowd-powered bus service, Salaymeh wanted to bring additional nightlife to Elon students through ELONightlife Getaways. His hope is to bring large group of students to different areas and events in a safe and cost-efficient way.
Here’s a list of the top five, last-minute items you’ll probably need in your dorm room. Everything can be found at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so it’s one-stop shopping to a killer year.
Growing up in Haiti as the third of four brothers and the first to graduate high school, Ellison Adrien wasn't the subject of high expectations from neighbors — especially after his parents passed away in March 2008. But his expectations for himself were high. Adrien would skip classes his junior year of high school to work in the Dominican Republic in order pay rent. But he was still one of the best students in his classes and was hopeful an opportunity for higher education would appear.
