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By Peter Blais | September 1, 2005With its third release, the Vancouver-based indie-pop ensemble The New Pornographers finally seem to have learned what makes critics putty.
With its third release, the Vancouver-based indie-pop ensemble The New Pornographers finally seem to have learned what makes critics putty.
Those of you awaiting another album like College Dropout, don’t hold your breath. Those of you ready for a redefined Kanye West, you can exhale now.
After selling over 300,000 copies of their highly-acclaimed last record Transatlanticism, enjoying an almost weekly name-dropping on The OC, and not to mention touring shortly with Blink 182, Death...
The longest-running football franchise—that's virtual football—is back with its 16th installment.
Just over one month remains before the much-heralded Nasher Museum of Art is scheduled to throw open its doors in a fanfare of events, including a live sculpting by Chapel Hill sculptor Patrick...
DSO to perform Pops Concert on East Lawn.
The 2002 Meirelles film City of God was to many film-lovers a breath of fresh air.
OK, I have a confession to make: I no longer love the ‘80s. And it’s not VH1’s fault, promise.
With Parizade’s no longer moonlighting as a college destination and off-campus houses off limits, Duke students will need to broaden their scope in search of after-hours entertainment this fall.
The space that formerly housed The Edge next door to the Durham Arts Council is being transformed into a café/martini bar/arts venue by former property managers, now bar owners Mike Womack and...
Personal style, just like the artistic masterpieces of the ever-evolving avant garde, should never be predictable-especially not if you're off for a night on the town.
When Duke decided to revitalize the Gilbert-Addoms Down Under as entertainment space, it quickly realized it would take an insider to get the job done.
Miranda July’s debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know has gotten rave reviews worldwide, winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the prestigious Camera d’Or at the Cannes...
A special award-winner for originality at the Sundance Film Festival, Me and You and Everyone We Know succeeds for the opposite reason it received acclaim.
It’s raining in Paris, and it’s hard to say what is most seductive—starlet Jeanne Moreau’s come-hither French murmuring, the sensuous jazz of Miles Davis or the cité...
She’s both a thoughtful poet who rolls footage of W and Saddam playing chess on a gameboard bearing the Earth’s face during her concerts and a bottle-blonde ditz who dressed as an...
Remember “Livin’ La Vida Loca?”.
Ok, so by this point you’ve already seen War of the Worlds and Batman Begins and decided whether it’s Herbie or Lindsay Lohan who’s really Fully Loaded.