Recess

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J. Edgar

As the credits rolled and I left the theater, a nearby viewer loudly exclaimed that he had been fooled, and that he hadn’t taken J. Edgar to be “no love movie.”


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Jack & Jill

In an age where comedy has become an increasingly nuanced mockery of real life, Adam Sandler and the folks at Happy Madison remain committed to good old-fashioned slapstick humor.


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Childish Gambino

Donald Glover must be the most versatile entertainer in the world today. As Donald Glover, he is a stand-up comedian, former writer for “30 Rock,” star of the show “Community,” GAP model and head...


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Los Campesinos!

f you don’t want a lovesick pop song written about you, don’t date Gareth Campesinos! Throughout Hello Sadness, the lead singer of Los Campesinos! writes cathartic lyrics about a traumatic...


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Sandbox

As a Sandbox noob, I naturally asked Recess editor Ross Green, quite simply, what is the Sandbox?


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Anonymous

uch has already been made about the factual and historical underpinnings of Roland Emmerich’s new film Anonymous, based on the theory that Edward de Vere, a 16th century English nobleman, was the...


The zombie-apocalypse novel Zone One is the latest from New York author Colson Whitehead, who has published five previous novels and written nonfiction for The New York Times, Salon, and Grantland, among other publications.
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Colson Whitehead

The American supernatural obsession du jour has snowballed, in recent years, from vampires (Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, among others) to zombies, with AMC’s horrifying The Walking Dead, a...


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The Sandbox

The religious among us will forgive me if I observe that, these days, there isn’t as much space for God on college campuses as there used to be.


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Editor's Note

The Throne performed at Greensboro Coliseum last Sunday, and I wasn’t there to see them.