Topless girls, prehistoric fish and underwater ballet: No matter what type of nonsense you like, Piranha 3-D delivers, offering audiences gory B-movie fun.
Graphic novel adaptations, especially superhero films like Ironman and The Dark Knight, rarely acknowledge the format from which they are derived.
It’s easy to dismiss the resurgence of interest in vinyl as another hipster or steampunk revival, but the record holds more cultural significance than one may think.
The newest exhibit at the Scrap Exchange in downtown Durham features a series of photographs by a group of unexpected artists.
Many bands find themselves struggling to juggle the competing demands of innovation and marketability. Far too many albums are dragged down by this weight, losing the energy and drive that debuts...
The star-studded indie comedy The Kids Are All Right delves into the normalcy of unconventional family life.
Digital files may have superseded vinyl in the mainstream music market, but the record’s influence on the art world is here to stay.
What happens when the curatorial drive of the local alt-weekly grows beyond its physical pages? The nation’s largest music festival, for one, South by Southwest, is run by the Austin Chronicle; the...
In honor of Durham-based Churchkey Records’ third birthday, Recess’ Kevin Lincoln interviewed Spider Bags frontman Dan McGee. Spider Bags is set to release a single, “(Let’s) Take It Easy Tonite,”...
“Sorrow found me when I was young,” the National frontman Matt Berninger sings on “Sorrow,” High Violet’s second track. “Sorrow waited, sorrow won.”
Director Luca Guadagnino had no intention of providing answers to the questions he dregs up in his third feature film, I Am Love: how does one balance truth to self versus sacrifice for one’s...
Churning out hit after hit after hit, one begins to wonder when uplifting themes like friendship and hope begin to lose their charm. With Toy Story 3, the animation studio proves once more that the...
The Durham Performing Arts Center opened in the midst of a budding visual arts scene as well as an economic recession in Durham. Yet less than two years since opening its doors in Nov. 2008, DPAC...
At first glance, the Nasher Museum of Art’s new exhibit Color Balance, featuring the work of the two abstract artists Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas, appears uneven—the different styles are not...
There are a number of Duke institutions that have significance beyond the bounds of campus. Naming them all would make for a tricky parlor game, a project in and of itself. But one thing becomes...
Even after school is out, Duke’s campus teems with life as the American Dance Festival takes the stage once more.
In a difficult follow-up to a brilliant origin story, Iron Man 2 retains the fun of its rogue status but loses much of the complexity and intelligence that made its predecessor such a hit.
This summer marks the third iteration of Duke Performances’ now annual Music in the Gardens series, a string of concerts in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens that allow showgoers the opportunity to come...
Ryan Carnes has come a long way from feeding the pigs on his family farm. Carnes plays the title character in SyFy’s new movie The Phantom¸ which premiered June 20 and is the latest iteration of a...
Drake’s debut LP Thank Me Later—delayed more than once and lustfully hyped—sounds so effortful that you half-expect your iPod to be sweating when “Thank Me Now” drones to a close.
