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By Andrew Hibbard | February 7, 2008Doris Duke holds an important place in the Duke legacy, but few know about the relationship she had with her butler.
Doris Duke holds an important place in the Duke legacy, but few know about the relationship she had with her butler.
Post-punk, post-noise, post-whatever-band Xiu Xiu (sort of pronounced "shoe shoe") recently released Women as Lovers, their sixth studio album and first on the Kill Rock Stars label.
Augustana began with humble roots in Greenville, Il. as college students studying music. Abruptly the band decided to uproot themselves and move to California to live their dreams as musicians.
The album's acoustic pieces are not only the most catchy, but their lyrics also fully reveal the Trucker's sense of humor and reflective insight.
When one hears the phrase "T.V. movie," images of battered women from the Lifetime channel and warm and fuzzy family comedies a la the Hallmark channel are conjured-clearly the pinnacle of...
The Nasher Museum's new exhibition entitled Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool certainly lives up to its name.
Smooch is a hard band to label. Literally. They only use the Smooch moniker for their cover music. The name they like to use for their original material? Well, that's yet to be decided.
Bruges: A quaint medieval Belgium town and a veritable fairy tale untouched by the hands of time. Well, not if the Irish have anything to say about it.
This is one of the few weeks that we are not running an article on Duke Performance's Soul Power series and that is a crying shame.
To graduate with distinction can be a nerve-wracking, audacious and glorious goal, allowing for recognition of brilliance and hard work.
Like a sniper's bullet ripping though flesh and bone, Sylvester Stallone's latest avenging kill em' all man-movie, Rambo, tears a hole though all sensibilities and artistic pretenses, making them...
If you've been eagerly awaiting the first solo release from Chris Walla, odds are you've been waiting a little longer than expected. In late 2007, the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a...
The Triangle is known as an area teeming with art and creativity, a perception strengthened by the fact that not one but two Broadway plays are now playing at Chapel Hill's Paul Green Theatre.
The Mars Volta manage to bring a new and more bizarre meaning to the word "excess" every time they make an album. Their fourth LP, The Bedlam in Goliath, is no different. The album is so steeped in...
I like to hug celebrities. Now put down the phone and don't call the police... let me explain myself. Charlie McSpadden's celebrity sight-seeing at this year's Sundance Film Festival reminded me...
In times of desperation, how do we look to love? If these were our last hours on earth, would the superficiality of form dictate our chance at happiness? These are the questions posed in the...
"You've got to be a star to be a star." That's what showbiz seems to be telling main character Lainie, the aspiring Broadway actress of INTERN the musical, which is playing in East Duke 209 today,...
"We're going to take it from one end of the spectrum to the other, from the gospel to the country, and you can't ask for any more than that," Burke promises. "We're just gonna spiritually rock that...
When artists as varied as Johnny Cash and Akon choose the same topic to sing about, you know it must be of some cultural importance. In this case, it is prison life that commands public fascination.