RECESS | CULTURE
Male seeking female? Go west (to UNC), young man.
By Eugene Wang | February 8, 2010
Definitions become trickier and messier as certain behaviors appear closer to the boundary of conventionality.
The Nasher’s newest exhibition, Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature, presents an interesting collection of historical prints alongside their more modern incarnations. The older artwork shows...
In the wake of the tremendous earthquakes in Haiti, Erol Josue’s role as a purveyor of his native country’s oral tradition is more prevalent than ever. He is the “Prince of Haitian Roots Music” for...
How does Brodhead the president stack up to Brodhead the not-quite-PhD?
The ever-evolving world of jazz sends one of its brightest young stars to Duke next week. Marco Benevento, innovative pianist and co-founder of the Benevento/Russo Duo, troops with his trio to the...
Tha Carter is reborn as an ugly, nu-metal baby rocker.
Penelope Cruz is a sight to behold. This fact isn’t lost on audiences and especially not with directors like Pedro Almodovar.
Maybe you haven’t heard his name, maybe you’ve never actually heard his work. But you’ve heard of Gil Scott-Heron.
The most recently acclaimed offering from Romanian to burst onto the global cinema world in the past few years, Police, Adjective, maintains the wave’s stark and staunch realism.
George Falconer is the tragic embodiment of Tom Ford's gorgeous world: a single man trudging through a single day.
Despite the sophisticated studio-as-instrument technique, Causers of This is fundamentally a pop album, albeit one dipped in molasses.
Unlike troubadors like Jeff Tweedy or Ira Kaplan, their new release Romance Is Boring more evokes their upbeat contemporaries. And it works. Mostly.
Scott Stewart’s Legion can be summed up in one hyphenated word: God-awful.
Teen Dream is the document of a band maturing and experimenting without abandoning the core of their sound.