Barkley Hendricks does not look or talk like any other artist. He exudes the kind of cool one would expect from the giants of jazz and masters of funk of the 1970s, the very people he channels in...
The formation of Carrboro band Schooner seems lifted from a bad movie script, complete with serendipitous beginnings and the potential for fractured families. In 2003, Reid Johnson and Tripp Cox...
Silent, aromatic halls of what was once a grimy, noisy, bustling engine of economy, now a ghost town in the middle of a city: That's what Durham photographer DL Anderson captures in When the Dust...
We here at sacrasm weekly recess might not be the smartest kids around. Or the most popular. Or, for that matter, the most hygenic. But there is one thing that recess staffers have in spades:...
At first glance, the pairing of Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac may seem unexpected, but the two show a surprising amount of chemistry on-screen in Soul Men. To say the result is funny and...
Nathan White, lead singer of the Chapel Hill-based Nathan Oliver, is a man with two very different passions: dentistry and rock music. He is a student of both the cavity and the chorus, the sealant...
You might know Branford Marsalis from a variety of places-as one of the most innovative jazzmen of his generation, as Wynton's brother, from gigs on "The Tonight Show" or with Sting. So what is he...
When watching Zack and Miri Make a Porno, it's difficult to get past the film's more pornographic qualities. It's not as if director Kevin Smith is known for his sense of decorum, but his latest...
If indie rock has lost its soul, then Hammer No More The Fingers is here to save it. The Durham-based trio, the roots of which go back to 1996 when drummer Jeff Stickley and guitarist Joe Hall...
In case you haven't heard, and in case you didn't have enough reasons to hate the city of Chapel Hill (reason #254: It's arguably harder to park legally near Franklin Street than it is to park...
If you don't know what 4chan is, you should be ashamed. At this very moment, I hope you are looking up 4chan on Wikipedia and Googling why you've been living under a rock. I seem to be making a...
