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By Brian Contratto | April 5, 2012Home starts off familiar and comfortable—a bit more charming and enjoyable too, like a college vacation spent at home.
Home starts off familiar and comfortable—a bit more charming and enjoyable too, like a college vacation spent at home.
The 15 works presented in the Kenan Institute for Ethics’ student-run exhibition What is Good Art? set out to confront the ethical questions that arise from the works...
If you’ve ever had brunch at the Washington Duke Inn, you’ve probably heard Paul Holmes playing the piano.
Let me acknowledge at the outset that I run the risk of coming off as a curmudgeon...
There comes a moment, typically occurring in the first song of a set, when you realize why one band is the headliner and the other is the wannabe.
Saba Barnard’s Technicolor Muslimah is a series of 12 portraits portraying Muslim women as she sees them.
The hype around this film initially struck me as ironic.
Justin Townes Earle has about as much grit as Michael Buble.
Explaining the key to high school popularity, ex-jock Channing Tatum offers the following advice: “Don’t try, at anything."
You have to acknowledge good taste.
I enjoy thinking about music critically...
"Dar He started, for me, as just an idea. A wish, really..."
"[The film has] 36 characters entirely played by one person. At first it might seem gimmicky, but it has a lot of substance."
It can’t be easy to be Big K.R.I.T. these days: dude’s basically shouldering The Future of Southern Rap by himself.
March begins the season of music festivals, and this year Durham has one to be excited about.
Chamber pop groups seem to come in bulk these days.
In the 2004 movie Garden State, Natalie Portman’s character Sam declared that a Shins song is capable of changing your life.
I don’t know about you, but my reading tastes lie at the intersection of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Lolita.
Excluding maybe the partisan pundits, This American Life host Ira Glass is public radio’s biggest personality.