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Recess reviews: Future's self-titled album
By Brooklyn Bass | February 28, 2017Future continues to forge his legacy in the trap subgenre with his release of a self-titled album.
Future continues to forge his legacy in the trap subgenre with his release of a self-titled album.
In the latest addition to Duke Performances’ artist-in-residence series, hip-hop artist and activist Talib Kweli spent the last week in Durham holding conversations with Duke professors and Durham community members before playing two sold-out shows at Motorco Music Hall. The residency began Wednesday with a public conversation between Kweli and resident professor Patrick Douthit, better known as the producer 9th Wonder, which was sponsored by Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics.
The crowd at the Nasher Museum of Art last Thursday was bustling and spirited, a diverse commingling of students and residents from the farthest reaches of the Triangle Area.
When you look at the statistics, “Fifty Shades Darker” does not seem like the blockbuster film its earnings would indicate it is.
Kirby: I didn't really have time to think about what to expect at Marc Maron's comedy show because I was too busy stuffing Pompieri into my mouth as you and I did our eleventh-hour power walk.
For this week’s editor’s note I, Recess’s human hot takes torch, am going to lay down a series of truths.
The corridors of the East Duke building were alive Saturday evening. Students lay sprawled across the floor in what loosely resembled a line and loud chatter hung in the air, jumbled and indistinct.
My high school, situated in the heart of Cary, N.C., regarded itself as the last bastion of the American high school experience.
“I Try to Talk to You” – Hercules and Love Affair feat. John Grant A beautiful song about people connecting in tough times.
I grew up on a cul-de-sac–a street that stretches into a spoon shape, the end rounded like the mouth of a river–and for that, I consider myself lucky.
We live in an era of walls. On the news we see walls conjured by ideologies and walls placed around our words, walls that defined our history and walls that some promise will do the same for our future.
In 1968, writer James Baldwin appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” and offered an explanation of a racial paradox which he understood to pervade American society: “When any white man in the world says, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ the entire white world applauds.
The last presidential election seemed to open a rift within the pop culture community. On the one hand, we saw a reality-television show host rise to power in no small part due to his celebrity status.
Before Timothy Tyson got the phone call, he did not want to write a book about Emmett Till. Like most historians of the American South, the senior researcher at Duke’s department of documentary studies thought he knew the story.
I’m a senior. I’m writing that just as much to provide some context for the editorial I’m about to write as to reiterate the fact to myself.
Migos is not a joke. That’s the main takeaway from “Culture,” their stunning, vital new album.
Have the post-rush blues? Celebrating a bid from the frat or sorority of your dreams? Need some sick beats to remind you that you can't push off school back anymore and need to get into classroom grind?
Protests, which are unequivocal cornerstones to American democracy, have been swelling across the United States since the inauguration of president Donald Trump.