The visual arts program within HAND includes over 3,000 pieces of artwork in the hospital and waiting rooms, as well as six rotating galleries that often feature local artists and touchable art.
In The Social Network, writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher’s take on the origin stories of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
Whether or not you’re an avid follower of HBO’s True Blood or a diehard Twilight fan, few can argue that vampires have made their mark in popular culture.
Myriad faces, both ordinary and renowned, will be featured in the Durham Arts Council’s newest exhibition People You May Know—the first show curated in-house by the DAC in its 56 years.
For a while, it appeared that KT Tunstall was going to be yet another busker with a record deal (albeit a highly talented one).
David Fincher’s The Social Network is an entertaining, well-crafted and compelling dramatization of the invention of Facebook, the subsequent legal battles for its control and the personal fallout...
For some reason, it caught on, was excepted much earlier in books and movies. Violence. Vulgarity. Not so much sex, because as everyone knows, sex is drugs is rock and roll.
It isn’t the LSD. Or the terrible writing. It isn’t even that this book is essentially a collection of soft-core porn occurring under the influence of a mythical “ram spirit.”
No Age could’ve dropped bags of bricks onto the heads of their audience to a fair amount of success and critical acclaim.
Art movements often seem to be deliberately named to confuse students, with arbitrary blanket terms attempting to catchphrase something ineffable—impressionism? Suprematism? And “Dada?”
Deerhunter’s new album Halcyon Digest conjures a lush series of highly polished soundscapes that evoke both mystery and beauty.
Before his most recent stretch in prison, Gucci Mane made a name for himself with his blase twist on gangsta rap.
It can be blackened, seared, grilled, fried, country fried or cajun. Southern kitchens may render the fish barely recognizable, but Catfish the film tells a story of an identity crisis even more...
In a Duke Performances season devoted to music that characterizes “A Nation Made New,” no act might fit this epithet better than Dirty Projectors.
If all the world’s a stage, PlayMakers’ actors make good use of the cliche.
In recent years Durham has risen from its status as a junior partner in the Triangle music scene to a thriving music community that is home to indie bands with national followings.
The first time I saw the music video for West Coast rap group King Fantastic’s “Why? Where? What?” I was pleasantly surprised not as much by a nude and dancing Kristina Rose as by the porn actress’...
Padgett Powell, Ron Rash, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower. The table of contents reads like some idealized issue of The Southern Review—and there are 21 more names just like that.
Within my vast inventory of socially awkward behaviors and habits, I have a tendency to accidentally “out” virgins.
