Duke Performances kicks off an obscurely named mini jazz festival this weekend. The name-Jazz @ Home-is meant to focus listener attention on the importance of context to the creation of music.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, The Terminator, I, Robot and just about every action thriller should be embarrassed by the compliments heaped upon them by Eagle Eye.
Apparently Gossip Girl is every parent's nightmare: a mind-blowingly inappropriate, nasty piece of work-and it's very bad for you. But when dysfunctional parenting, social sabotage and romantic...
The smoke that builds up in Sterling Cooper, a fabricated advertising agency, is almost as much a character as the rest of the cast of AMC's critical darling Mad Men. The secretaries puff away on...
Brass Knuckles, Nelly's fifth studio release, meets all the apparent requirements for today's rap album.
It's official: class has replaced sex as the new theme of R&B. Ne-Yo's third album, Year of the Gentleman, pays tribute to the unparalleled style of the Rat Pack.
Polish-American filmmaker Lech Majewski has been hailed as a modern master.
Trust me, I was as skeptical as you are right now. Sure, Wayne Brady was entertaining on "Whose Line is it Anyway?," but now he wants to be an R&B artist? I couldn't wait to rip this apart.
From Sept. 10 to 14, Chapel Hill's PlayMakers Repertory Company presented In the Continuum, an edgy, dramatic work illustrating the ravages of AIDS in the lives of two women. By turns wooing the...
Dear readers, share with us our joy: we at recess have just become privy to one of the great moments in literature's fabled history. As you certainly have heard, The Hills' Lauren Conrad has...
They could have landed on a lot of planets. Luckily, they landed on Earth. The band brings its own unique image and infectious music to Duke this weekend. Lead singer Marshall Galactic answered a...
Say what you will about the social powers of the documentary style, the fact is that most documentarians are white males.
Hundreds of Durham residents and Duke students came together over colorful pastels and spray paints during the past year in a community effort called Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life.
I've been going through a bit of a tough time in a romantic relationship recently.
Metallica is a band with a long and storied history, a history I know nothing about.
In the 1950s, every Southern town had three key fixtures: a school, a church and a soda fountain.
Despite its name, there is a fair amount of health-conscious and vegetarian options at Durham's new taqueria on Ninth Street.
Fans of Bloc Party's debut album, Silent Alarm, may be surprised by the band's third attempt, Intimacy.
With words like mortadella and caponata adorning the menu, Italian cuisine is a clear influence, but owners Bill and Kelli Cotter creatively play with these Italian flavors.
We all love the '90s. Who doesn't? The decade gave us denim, Stretch Armstrong, 56K Internet (with Al Gore, and Al Gore only, to thank) and of course, the meteoric rise of pop music.
