What do we talk about these days when we talk about dancing? The perceived authenticity of Natalie Portman’s pirouettes in Black Swan? Seasonal fallout from countless productions of The Nutcracker?
Covert operations, rapid gun fire, hand-to-hand combat and steely post-takedown glares are not exactly uncharted territory for Jason Statham, star of blockbuster action films like The Transporter...
Opened last night at the Nasher Museum of Art, The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 is a remarkably realized recreation of a space and time.
In four years at Duke, Reynolds Price is the only professor who ever told me I might fail his class.
Cellophane has a black tag around its toe, and it’s not going anywhere. Digital media has exploded into the hands of consumers and pros alike, scratching film’s death sentence into its fragile...
Sam Beam moved to Warner Brothers in last October, which makes Kiss Each Other Clean his first major-label release. That’s traditionally been an important line of artistic demarcation for indie...
Talib Kweli, the Afro-centric lyrical mastermind who rose to prominence alongside Mos Def with 1998’s Black Star, isn’t a prolific rapper by any means. He releases a new album every few years,...
The act of walking can provide exercise, a time to reflect on the day, even a glimpse of the Great Outdoors. But for the characters in The Way Back, walking offers a grueling, potentially deadly...
Hank Willis Thomas has, in his short career, branded our collective memory with his stunning and evocative imagery. With a keen sensitivity to the impact of visuals and visual history, Thomas...
Tomorrow night in Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke Performances will host new music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche as they push forward the relationship between...
Dan Bejar has done it again.
It’s a marriage of community and University in the truest sense: The Center for Documentary Studies will offer a new course this Spring in video editing for Merge Records. The Durham-based record...
Alivia’s and I have entered into a committed relationship.
Tonight on the C-1 the kid next to me pulled out a copy of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I have no idea why he not only possessed this book, but happened to be openly reading it on the bus—but...
Adam Kotsko’s short book hinges on a popular, perfunctory interjection: “Awkward!”
In the words of Emma Kurtzman, modern young adults have “an emotional peanut allergy” to relationships.
At its core, the long-awaited Blue Valentine is a love story. A portrait of two people, Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams), who fall in and out of love, the film can be summed up in...
