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By Aymeric Vincenti | October 6, 2011Let’s start by addressing what you’re already thinking: cancer comedy.
Let’s start by addressing what you’re already thinking: cancer comedy.
The Ides of March might carry with it an all-star cast, but it is the work of actor, writer and director George Clooney that constitutes the real success of the cinema adaptation of critically...
Almost four years since The Reminder and its hit single “1234” brought Leslie Feist to mainstream attention, she reemerges with Metals, an organic and dynamic progression of her music during her...
Since his debut album, Joshua Davis, a.k.a. DJ Shadow, has been, well, overshadowed.
On its website, Duke Performances writes of its current season: “Tradition keeps us rooted, but in art and individuals alike, change is a sign of life.”
2011 has been a huge year for Philadelphia rockers the War on Drugs.
In anticipation of the upcoming release of Melancholia, I feel compelled to revisit the debate surrounding Lars von Trier’s last film, Antichrist.
Students on campus may be surprised to find film crews cropping up in their dormitory common rooms.
Try to name a store where you can find a ten-dollar vintage pullover, homemade cocoa cinnamon truffles, a graphic tee inspired by the equal rights movement and a kitschy Strawberry Shortcake cookie...
In the fifth installment of Duke’s 2011 French Film Festival, the Center for French and Francophone Studies will be hosting a screening of Of Gods and Men, a 2010 French-language film directed by...
There are lots of things to miss about the ’60s—Elvis, the Beatles and a young Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, to name a few—but there’s plenty to leave in the past.
I got nothing this week. So: an apropos-of-nothing, RapGenius-style breakdown of Drake’s guest verse on the Weeknd’s “The Zone.”
This Friday, East Campus Quad will provide the backdrop for an outdoor screening of international dance films from New York City’s Dance Films Association and Duke dance students.
On the title track of his most recent EP, An Argument With Myself, Swedish pop songsmith Jens Lekman likens backpackers leaving a hostel to a “tidal wave of vomit,” in between schizophrenic...
Moneyball, as penned by Michael Lewis, is about the ability of statistics to contradict what the naked eye interprets, especially as it applies to Major League Baseball.
Zakir Hussain is India’s equivalent of a rock star.
Sandwiched between the red-brick Georgian buildings of East Campus and the studious atmosphere of Lilly Library is a glass case housing brightly colored zines inviting students to stray from...
In more than one episode of South Park, Stan and friends set out to prevent George Lucas and Steven Spielberg from ruining some of the classic films they made years ago—Raiders of the Lost Ark and...