In a motley motel room 20 miles east of Memphis, where the only thing cheaper than the beds was the liquor we spilled in them, I stood staring into a rusted mirror behind a bathroom door which on...
I bought a lamp at this thrift store in Durham. Because of its lack of luster, I took to it a bottle of Windex and some napkins I stole from The Loop. BAM! Genie time! I’m not kidding.
If you are like me, after reading my headline, you will chuckle to yourself as you recall one of the funniest shows to ever grace your television screen—Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla’s...
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.
SIR ELTON was thinking of being a total jerk this week, just to prepare for this whole Thanksgiving holiday you Americans have.
So I’m going back home to California for winter break, and I’m beginning to prep myself mentally for the entourage of questions I know I’ll be getting, not only because I’ve...
I was walking to class on East, when I heard a voice start singing some ’90s pop “classic” behind me.
The posturing of the election is over. There’s a rare pause in campus and national rhetoric; people are thinking.
The literary powers that be always consider the release of a new Tom Wolfe book the literary event of the season.
I was struck by the recent column, “In Appreciation of Life,” written by Anne Katharine Wales. She made many interesting and moving points.
My boyfriend came to visit me last year and eager to show him Duke in all its glory, I spent the subsequent days showing him around all the obligatory visitor hotspots.
Like many of you out there in Dukedom on Election Day, I was awake late into the night, watching as those fabled Democratic precincts in Cleveland failed to deliver Ohio to Kerry.
That’s so gay.” “He acts like such a fag.” “He’s clearly gay, look how he’s dressed.”.
After watching one too many hours of VH1’s ’90s specialty shows, which is all that network has become, I had an epiphany.
A few weeks ago I attended my first funeral. Walking into the wake, I was surprised by how scared I felt to see my grandfather displayed inside the casket.
Before deciding what—or whom—to do with your time on earth, you ought to see statistics that relate lifetime happiness to job choice.
Sometimes I consciously fight against the bubble I live in, operating by yesterday’s feel, and seek out the latest newspaper headlines.
We should support our troops, now more than ever. I have been away from Duke for almost a year now. I do not miss President Richard Brodhead, Larry Moneta or John Burness.
