For two nights, Duke allowed its students to let the potent twinge of nostalgia run wild with a ‘90s movie marathon orchestrated by Freewater Presentations, a branch of the Duke University Union.
Junot Díaz often doesn’t enjoy writing. In fact, he avoids writing whenever possible and wishes that he wasn’t born with such a strong talent in fiction.
I rarely laugh out loud and actually mean it. No, it’s not because I think I have a holier-than-thou sense of humor, where I shun anything that’s not up to my comedic standards.
Department Of bills itself as “Duke’s only intentionally comedic publication,” and this claim does not stretch the truth. Unlike its Ivy League peers, Duke has never boasted a consistent humor publication.
Phantogram has been easy to miss. The duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter released their debut LP “Eyelid Movies” in 2009, just when the modern synth-pop movement in alternative music was beginning to take form.
This past week, Hoof ‘n’ Horn began its fall show in Shaefer Theater—kicking off the group’s 80th anniversary season.
Marvel’s “Luke Cage” is another great addition to a collection of Netflix productions that boast complex plots and intense character development.
Seen in a live setting, Whitney looks almost inside-out. At the front of the stage, where rock convention suggests the lead singer should be standing with guitar in hand, Julien Ehrlich sits hunched over a drum set, a coat draped over his shoulders and a microphone dangling from above.
All you need is happy thoughts. Don’t forget the happy thoughts. I have seen Chance the Rapper in concert twice.
A few minutes before 8 p.m. Thursday evening, a small congregation had formed around the door of Small Town Records.
“Have you ever heard of the paper bag test?” That is the way Steven Cozart begins his interviews for “Pass/Fail”, a series of illustrations that was awarded the 2016 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies.
Most of my friends make fun of me, but I don’t care. My Green Day fan bona fides are without equal:
I love Rihanna with every fiber of my being. She’s the only modern pop star who has successfully maintained “coolness” in every facet of her deportment, and her discography contains more jams than a Harry & David gift basket.
When, if ever, should the actions of an artist negate the value of their art?
The melodica is a unique instrument. Similar to a harmonica in that it uses a free reed, but airflow is controlled by a keyboard instead of relying only air blown through a mouthpiece.
The Chronicle: First of all, I think your new album "Where’d Your Weekend Go?" is fantastic.
The album explores no new emotions; the same uplifting, energetic mood that has defined the forgettable ocean of 2010’s alternative pop-rock is just about the only emotion present here.
Solange Knowles’s searingly powerful and meditative new album “A Seat at the Table” opens with “Rise,” a smooth jazz opus that packs a major punch in its two-minute run time.
If the intention of directing is to leave a unique fingerprint on a film, then director Jared Hess’s mark would be unmistakable: tonally deadpan, visually drab and awkward in every sense of the word.
In their latest play “The Undertaking,” The Civilians, a New York-based theater company, is here to remind you that you are all going to die. Written and directed by Steve Cosson, “The Undertaking” has a simple premise: Steve (Dan Domingues) is an interviewer, and he spends an evening with his friend Lydia (Irene Lucio) discussing interviews he did concerning death.
