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Students fall under the Halo effect
By Bryan Sayler | October 18, 2007Somewhere in the dark parts of the world, millions have spent the past few weeks killing one another.
Somewhere in the dark parts of the world, millions have spent the past few weeks killing one another.
Joe College Day seeks to remind students what great music sounds like: at 6 p.m. this Saturday, Will Hoge will demonstrate what indie rock should be.
Normally, seven and a half cents isn't worth very much. Any Duke student could find at least as much by digging through the cushions of the questionably clean chairs in the Bryan Center.
Affleck's new film, however, is an infinitely darker tale, which scours the soiled underbelly of blue-collar America in a dramatized critique of modern morality.
"He sings like a woman." That's what my father said to me when I told him that I was reviewing the new Neil Young album. In a crude sense, my father was referring to the nasally, alto singing that...
They say only the good die young. From the early '50s until its untimely "death" in the mid-70s, Joe College Day was the highlight of Duke University, bringing only top-name artists for an all-day...
Since Wolf Parade's last release in 2005, Sunset Rubdown has already released an EP and two full-length albums, the latest of which is the abstractly titled Random Spirit Lover.
Last year, recess made a tough decision on how to handle our presentation of student band's EPs.
Radiohead have been able to do whatever they want to for years, mostly because whatever Thom Yorke touches seems to turn to gold.
Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder takes a quieter vocal route in the soundtrack to Into the Wild.
SEAN PENN: The quickest answer is Jon Krakauer's book. I bought the book and I found myself reading it cover-to-cover twice.
The "most trusted stranger in America," according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel, is a 42-year-old small business owner whose love for sharing other people's secrets has propelled him into the...
Blueberries, one of the most nutrient-rich foods available, include everything from reducing risk for cardiovascular disease to slowing down the aging process in their extensive repertoire of...
"Our Western diets are literally killing us." This sentiment, expressed by Dr. Steven G. Pratt, author of SuperFoods Rx, has gained momentum in recent years in response to skyrocketing obesity...
Lady Chatterley is one of few recent films that steps gracefully away from exorbitantly expensive computer-generated images of, say, giant robots or battling armies.
In the small town of Brookhaven, Mississippi, orphan Carnelle Scott dreams of being crowned Miss Firecracker in her town's Independence Day beauty pageant.
If you chop Julie Taymor's Beatles-inspired musical into its 33 individual tracks, you would have a treasure trove of superbly psychedelic mini-music videos. But as a story-oriented whole, Across...
I find myself perpetually on the brink of trudging off into the forested distance-midterms be damned.
When I was 10, 12, 13, you know, I went over there one day, and they were listening to Coltrane's My Favorite Things, which had just come out, and no one had heard anything that sounded like that...
Between the classes, the independent study, the internship, the extracurriculars and the job search, I feel like I am steadily going crazy. Yet, this is the arduous path most seniors seem to face...