The annual DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend, which brings together creative Duke students who aspire to become successful in the media industry, took place last Friday and Saturday.
In Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Saoirse Ronan plays Christine McPherson, a self-possessed teen who’s stuck in Sacramento for her final year at an absurdly wealthy and suffocatingly Catholic high school.
Back in 2014, Shamir Bailey popped onto the scene with “On the Regular,” a single that grafted something like the assured lyricism of Azealia Banks’s “212” onto a cowbell-ringing, electro-disco beat, like a danceable mutation of a Space Invaders sound chip.
One of the perks of being a writer at Recess is that I reach out to interesting people whom I would not easily be able to talk to if I were not writing articles about them.
“Stranger Things 2” is the middle school-aged older brother of season one; it’s all the wholesome geekiness and heartwarming friendship of a stereotypically ’80s childhood, but it’s getting more interested in girls.
To those who call Columbus, Ind. home, the sight of tourists clustered in packs, mulling around the streets, is not uncommon.
Can I ask you something, dear reader? Do you think the concept of the Incredible Hulk sitting in a hot tub is truly hilarious?
The headlines come rolling, a tidal wave of buzz words and quotes and half-hearted condolences that ring hollow in the echo chamber of media news, in which the same stories — “celebrity comes forward with sexual assault story” — are produced without any action ever taken against the perpetrator of the assault.
For years, New York and Los Angeles have been the dual epicenters of the arts and media world.
Wet. That’s what best describes the third annual Barktoberfest held Sunday at Durham Central Park.
When the lights dim and a drag queen takes the stage, she is, for that moment, utterly free — to be herself, free of societal pressure to conform to the gender binary’s norms.
Most casual listeners of pop music know Rachel Platten only for her 2015 hit single, “Fight Song.”
Hitched between the birth and swift death of rock and roll on one side and the frenzy of the British Invasion on the other, the era from roughly 1960 to 1964 has been incorrectly painted as a rough period for pop music.
In the past, the term “a cappella” referred to Jewish or Christian choral music sung without accompanying musical instruments.
Between 12 years at 20th Century Fox and her current position as the executive vice president of drama development at NBC, Lisa Katz, Trinity ‘95, has overseen the development of numerous hit TV shows, including “Bones,” “Empire” and “This Is Us.”
I wiped a heavy smear of gold glitter across my left eyelid.
What could I possibly say about “The Room” that hasn’t been said before?
A 20-something writer from Sacramento lands in New York after winning a college essay contest.
In a world that often seems devoid of meaning, science and religion are often the most reliable means of assigning definition and validity to an unpredictable, chaotic universe.
In the street, costumed children go door to door asking for candy. Their parents linger behind and watch.
