There is no easy way to discuss death. Even when couched in pleasant language or harmless euphemisms, the topic is universally repulsive for its uncomfortable connotations, its alarming inevitability, its dreadful uncertainty.
The Duke Wind Symphony will celebrate the beginning of a new season, the arrival of new students and the inauguration of President Vincent Price all in one with the Celebration Concert Thursday in Baldwin Auditorium.
If you’re a regular at the Duke Coffeehouse or simply pop in for a milkshake or a coffee every now and then, you’ve probably glanced over the Polaroids of current and former employees hanging on the back wall, just beyond the bar.
Stories come in many forms, from the written word to the silver screen. One form that has recently flourished, though, is the podcast.
There’s a sign by the bus stop between Swift Ave. and Smith Warehouse, with an arrow that leads up a winding path and past a fence to a building covered in bright, colorful designs that seem out of place in the wooded surroundings.
Last Thursday, the Branson Hall Theater on East Campus was filled with people who came in to hear Ann Lauterbach read her poems. A discussion session with Lauterbach on Friday at East Duke building followed the event.
On the first floor of the Friedl Building at Jameson Gallery is an exhibit whose two wooden doors at the entrance open for everyone. Launched Aug. 28, the “Be Patient | Se Paciente” exhibit displays the works of Dr. Libia Posada, a surgeon and contemporary artist from Medellín, Colombia.
Stacks of 16mm film canisters—each painstakingly labeled with duct tape and Sharpie—tower over a pair of enormous iMac monitors and a man who seems acutely aware of the comical contrast in technologies.
Before Thelonious Monk revolutionized American music alongside players with names like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, before he raised eyebrows, and lit up souls, by playing in the cracks and experimenting with dissonance, he was just a kid from Rocky Mount, N.C.
In 2012, the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild” earned recognition at the infamous Sundance and Cannes film festivals in addition to garnering four Oscar nominations, bestowing “universal acclaim” upon director Behn Zeitlin from viewers and critics alike— the oft-overlooked score that smoothly transitions the audience from feelings of tears to triumph was co-produced by Zeitlin himself.
A young woman wreathed in a laurel crown gazes at you from across the room. She is framed in golden opulence and surrounded by an expanse of blue. Her name is Poesia.
The Theater Studies department is hard at work on their production of “Vinegar Tom,” a 1976 play by feminist playwright Caryl Churchill, which will open at Sheafer Lab Theater Thursday, Nov. 9, and run through Sunday, Nov. 19.
The St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig has been performing for 805 years. Originally part of St. Thomas Monastery, the Choir grew from a musical school that trained boys for religious singing at church services to an internationally famous musical group.
I believe it was the late, great William Shakespeare who once said, “For never was a story of more woe than that of the subpar college dancer.” Between Shooters, a canceled Lil Jon concert and a cappella shows, somehow the situation always arises where college students have to dance.
Along with “The Great Gatsby,” “Hamlet” and “Fahrenheit 451,” Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a nearly inescapable element of most high school English curricula. The play, originally produced in 1944, centers around the story of Laura, a sickly and shy daughter obsessed with her collection of glass animals, whose mother Amanda seeks to find her a “gentleman caller” with the help of Tom, Laura’s brother.
When the Duke University Union announced last week that this year’s Heatwave concert will be headlined by rapper Sage the Gemini, I was miffed.
Music lovers armed with picnic blankets will converge on the Duke Gardens this summer for the weekly series Music in the Gardens.
As students celebrate their freedom from assignments and exams over the summer break, another celebration will soon grace Duke’s campus: The American Dance Festival (ADF) commemorates its 40th season in Durham this summer with six-and-a-half weeks packed with performances.
Andrew Method, Pratt ’16, has been passionate about film for as long as he can remember. Reared in Park City, Utah—the city where Sundance Film Festival takes place annually—Method was raised in an environment that adored and celebrated film.
Duke Coffeehouse maintained its reputation as the place for all things weird, unpredictable and avant-garde when it hosted the Chaus Arts Showcase last Wednesday, a collection of art from some of the Coffeehouse’s favorite Duke artists.
