On a campus in love with sampled beats and mash-up booty-jams, a classically-trained pianist will perform this weekend with a country-folk singer-songwriter. This Friday and Saturday, songwriter...
Smith Westerns were sort of interesting two years ago. Blogs were talking about them anyway, with unironic enthusiasm for a group of teenagers making some pretty good singles with “aw, shucks”...
Emma and Adam’s relationship in No Strings Attached starts with sex and then moves on from there. Sound familiar? Perhaps from last semester? This film knows exactly where you’ve been.
With 2009’s The Hazards of Love, the Decemberists outdid themselves. The record was a mammoth achievement, a rock opera on par with Pink Floyd’s The Wall and the Who’s Tommy. With its epic scope...
Things got a little crazy (rowdy? wild? kinky?) at Christmas this year. A little psycho-sexual, you might say.
More than halfway into her 5600-word Atlantic Monthly hit piece on Duke University and the current wave of sexual feminism, “The Hazards of Duke,” Caitlin Flanagan comes as close as she ever gets...
Looking to volunteer abroad over the summer? It turns out that there are more options than just DukeEngage.
Colin Firth’s usual suave leading man is absent in The King’s Speech, and not the least bit missed. The unlikely king is the role of Colin Firth’s lifetime—one the Academy will surely not overlook.
Not every band can claim that they produced a decade-defining anthem that remains relevant 15 years later, but Cake’s 1996 hit “The Distance” seized the airwaves, inspiring spliced movie montages...
An updated John Wayne western by the Coen brothers, True Grit features a solid cast including Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin, as well as 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, a new...
This year, Santa’s sack was full of mixtapes.
