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Staffer's Note
By Chris Bassil | December 8, 2011If you know me, then you know that I fancy myself an intellectual.
If you know me, then you know that I fancy myself an intellectual.
Here’s a hypothetical: the student union at a major university sponsors an on-campus party with a theme that inherently marginalizes and objectifies women.
At this point, it’s tempting to thank the Roots for even trying.
The Black Keys have always been something of an oddity.
Robin Thicke attempts to reinvent his signature soulful sound in Love After War with a number of tries at nuanced theatricality, but with the exception of a few tracks, the album doesn’t depart...
Outside of Loaf, a bakery in downtown Durham, passersby stop to observe a brass and steel sculptural rendition of the business’s wheat stalk logo surrounded by metal silhouettes of people in its...
The first time I heard of Edward Albee’s 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was in my 11th grade American Literature class.
Music writing can be illuminating and incisive, or it can be obnoxious and pretentiously in-jokey, or it can just be dumb. But it’s usually pretty self-serious: it exists because someone privileged...
Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole released a new album in September. It’s called Cole World: A Sideline Story. It’s damn good, people like it. The title is tight and catchy, too. (Never...
Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole released a new album in September.
Music writing can be illuminating and incisive, or it can be obnoxious and pretentiously in-jokey, or it can just be dumb.
I normally enjoy doing background research for Recess stories.
In a way, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh) resembles a split-level house.
“Time has not been kind to old movies,” explains film historian Rene Tabard about halfway through Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s new 3D family film, at which point the director himself steps in to take up...
Tonight, the Duke Coffeehouse need not pay its busboys: DJ/rupture will be turning the tables.
True story: Two or three weeks ago, I was walking through the Sanford parking lot on a Saturday.
For whatever else it may be, Take Care is most of all a contrivance.