With his Netflix series “Easy,” currently in its second season, director Joe Swanberg does some growing up.
Last week, we in Recess released our choices for the best arts and culture of 2017.
Although I make this claim nearly every year, 2017 has been a spectacular year for film.
As 2017, at long last, comes to a close, the Recess staff is taking a look back at some of the year’s greatest moments in culture.
The Duke Chapel is the most important building on campus.
Last year, sophomore Katja Kochvar walked into the Nasher Museum of Art on the Monday of reading period.
Last Friday night, a corner of Devil’s Krafthouse was turned into a theater.
According to the American Sexual Health Association, 50% of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection by age 25.
What defines our college experience is a fundamental search for identity.
When I tell someone that I’m graduating a semester early, I know exactly how that person will react to the news.
Walter Benjamin, the famed literary and cultural critic, once called “The Arcades Project” — his seminal, fragmentary study of 19th-century Paris — “the theatre of all my struggles and all my ideas.”
The glass-enclosed Keohane atrium saw some poetry reading last Thursday night.
As a personal rule, I never read reviews before listening to an album; I like to have a completely unbiased first impression of new music.
‘Tis the season again — if you wander into any shopping mall or city center, you may notice hordes of holiday shoppers clutching their Starbucks hot chocolates and marveling at gingerbread-scented candles.
Humanity is at the core of every Pixar film. Whether the company is encouraging audiences to sympathize with the monsters living under their beds or assigning rich inner-lives to the contents of a child’s toy box, Pixar has a reputation for finding the humanity in the inhuman.
Beginning with an opening reception Wednesday evening, senior Jeainny Kim’s exhibit, “(as) Thick as Thieves,” will be on display until Dec. 9 at Duke’s Power Plant Gallery — the first exhibit by an undergraduate to be shown at this professional gallery.
Since Oct. 18, students who have walked into their second home — Perkins — with heavy steps must have been drawn by the black-and-white, visually appealing exhibit “Humans of Paris: Picturing Social Life in the Nineteenth Century” in the Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery, located between the Von der Heyden Pavilion and the first floor of the library.
As the trees shed their autumn leaves and the students shed their tears of stress over finals, Duke University offers one last reprieve before the unrelenting grind of exams and essays and group projects — Thanksgiving break.
“The Good Doctor” is the kind of show people like to call a “guilty pleasure” — a term I object to. It’s broad, predictable and epically sentimental, schmaltzy even.
Watching Duke’s come-from-behind overtime win over Texas in last week’s PK80 Invitational awakened a familiar feeling in me, one I hadn’t felt in some time.
