Björk's 'Utopia' doesn't quite live up to its title
By Aaron Paskin | November 29, 2017The breakup album is one of the most common and successful tropes in music, but how does an artist follow it up?
The breakup album is one of the most common and successful tropes in music, but how does an artist follow it up?
Girls inherit wisdom about themselves at a young age, and some of that wisdom is undoubtedly meant to save us the time and energy of trying and failing.
"Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 4
“Yes, I’m going to be saying some stuff. So some of you might be getting your feelings hurt. I’m sorry, that’s just reality.”
Duke’s annual dance showcase, the November Dances, proved to be a visually stunning display of athleticism and art last Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18.
Six years ago, William Paul Thomas, the Brock Family Visiting Professor in Studio Arts, was waiting for the bus when a face caught his eye.
Hidden away behind the galleries and brunching students at the Nasher Museum is a little classroom.
Last Tuesday, the crunching sound of nachos and vegetables filled a seminar room in the Perkins LINK.
On Sunday morning, straw blanketed the ground upon which 15 identical blue yoga mats lay in a circle at Hux Family Farm, waiting for the participants of goat yoga to claim their space.
Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express” is okay. In other words, it’s fine. It’s passable.
Taylor Swift would no longer like to be excluded from the narrative.
A decade ago, a Phoenix band by the scandalous name of Andrew Jackson Jihad released their second full-length album “People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World.”
Last Friday, the Duke Student Wellness Center hosted an opening reception of its Wellness Art Gallery, which showcased the artworks of two talented first-year artists, Greta Chen and Shailen Parmar, who are both duArts first-year interns.
The “Stoned and Starving” New York post-punk band Parquet Courts have a knack for astute observations and biting witticisms (“Ya know, Socrates died in a f---in’ gutter”) coupled with nods to the past via instrumental eccentricities.
I’m sitting in the middle of my room, my legs tucked underneath me, and all I want to do is cry.
Van Gogh is remembered as much for his tortured past as for his artistic masterpieces, so much so that the romantic ideal of the “tortured artist” finds its roots in his troubled life.
On a hot, sunny afternoon in early November, tents lined Krzyzewskiville as music streamed from a speaker.
It seems nearly impossible to walk around campus and not find people streaming shows and movies from their laptops — huddled in a corner booth at The Loop or holed up in Perkins, their screen split between organic chemistry notes and Netflix.
Summers in Kissimmee, Fla. — a city just south of Orlando and the setting of Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project” — are hot.
As Durham settles into November, an ensuing buzz of excitement suffuses through the self-proclaimed “geek” community — as with winter, North Carolina Comicon: Bull City is coming.