Oscar Snubs Part 2: Best Supporting Actress—Samantha Morton
By Charlie McSpadden | February 9, 2010
The ever-evolving world of jazz sends one of its brightest young stars to Duke next week. Marco Benevento, innovative pianist and co-founder of the Benevento/Russo Duo, troops with his trio to the...
Tha Carter is reborn as an ugly, nu-metal baby rocker.
Maybe you haven’t heard his name, maybe you’ve never actually heard his work. But you’ve heard of Gil Scott-Heron.
Despite the sophisticated studio-as-instrument technique, Causers of This is fundamentally a pop album, albeit one dipped in molasses.
Unlike troubadors like Jeff Tweedy or Ira Kaplan, their new release Romance Is Boring more evokes their upbeat contemporaries. And it works. Mostly.
Teen Dream is the document of a band maturing and experimenting without abandoning the core of their sound.
Realism is no radical departure—after exhausting all the stylistic tropes and conventions of pop over the course of their 1999 triple-disc magnum opus.
Jason Moran’s performances this weekend mark the latest collaboration between Duke and one of the most acclaimed pianists and composers in the jazz world. But it’s hardly the the first.
A fifth grade teacher at Durham’s Central Park School for Children, Heather Cook has organized the second benefit for arts education at the public charter school. The event is called Save Our Arts.