After the disappointing 2007 release of Living with the Living, it’s nice to see power-pop auteurs Ted Leo and the Pharmacists back on form with The Brutalist Bricks.
Post-apartheid South Africa sets the stage for MoLoRa, a Farber Foundry Theater production presented by Duke Performances. This tale of vengeance and suffering is adapated from an ancient Greek...
Coco Fusco, a now-canonical performance artist and feminist theorist, is coming to Duke to deliver a keynote address at this weekend’s Feminist Theory Workshop. Recess’ Claire Finch interviewed Fusco.
High Society, NYC Prep, The City and Real Housewives of New York: What happens when they come to Durham?
Danger Mouse and James Mercer's debut settles for a quiet, almost complacent mediation between their two styles.
The Ghost Writer, however, transcends Roman Polanski's tainted legacy and reaffirms his status as one of the world’s best directors.
Gorillaz's latest release, Plastic Beach, is simultaneously their poppiest work and yet their most inaccessible.
Poor. Likely unemployed. A fan of sex. Jack Wilkinson considers prostitution.
Nee Patrick Douthit of Winston-Salem, N.C., 9th Wonder has been a mainstay of the Triangle hip-hop scene since the early part of the decade, when his original group Little Brother released debut...
Barbie just got another little sister. Europop Vicky is one sassy chick that knows how to sing.
It took Susannah Gora more than 100 interviews over the course of three years to put together her portrait of John Hughes and the Brat Pack. But despite never getting to speak to Hughes himself—the...
I was supposed to go camping this past weekend. I was holey (yes, holey) prepared to go. Friday, I went to the Outpost, where I borrowed a tent, two sleeping bags and a lantern (I’m scared s—less...
“For me, as an anthropologist, The Wire is incredibly socially robust. It reveals a world with all of its [connections],” Makhulu said.
The White Ribbon's style leaves audience members to be voyeurs of the film’s forbidding feudal world until Haneke reveals its place in historicity.
Potter Mark Hewitt, now based in Pittsboro, N.C., is as much an artisan as an artist, eschewing the boundaries between high art and functional craft. His new exhibition, Falling into Place,...
After a chance encounter in a bar, senior Erik Anderson had the opportunity to work as an extra on writer-director John Sayles’ forthcoming Baryo, a fictional drama about the Philippine-American...
If anything miraculous ever happened to me, it happened to my breasts—their saga worthy of their own Lifetime movie classic.
