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She & Him - Volume 2
By Andrew Hibbard | March 25, 2010To be sure, the second outing from She & Him is insubstantial music, but it is, above all, enjoyable.
To be sure, the second outing from She & Him is insubstantial music, but it is, above all, enjoyable.
The sparse set of senior Danya Taymor’s production of Patrick Marber’s play Closer is filled by the unstable emotions of four fiercely enacted characters. I
Aliens vs. Predator, the latest installment from science-fiction’s most well-known hybrid franchise, looks to make up for two critically reviled films from the last decade.
All is fair in love and war until you’re lip-locked with two foreign strangers on a Mexican public bus.
The album is fun and playful, but at times Goldfrapp meanders without focus, resulting in music that bores rather than excites.
Like Chris Brown and any number of precocious pop idols before him, Bieber is a child existing in pop music. But pop is a genre of topics on which the 16-year-old Canadian cannot be an expert.
For most graduate students, a doctoral thesis has a straightforward, if daunting, form—a few hundred thousand words set down in a Microsoft Word document. But for Thom Limbert, the parameters were...
There’s enough shiny packaging to make nº 3 worthwhile, but it fails to recreate the ethereal heights of its predecessor.
It has always been easy to feel faceless in New York City and to question one’s place in the bigger picture. Allen Coulter’s Remember Me explores this existential dilemma but unfairly exploits...
Most viewers hope their favorite TV show will stay on the air because they just like watching it. But when sophomore Simone Lewis followed America’s Next Top Model, she was invested in its success...
When someone throws around the term “documentary,” chances are the following word will be “film,” maybe “radio” if the conversation concerns public radio programming. But because of the efforts of...
After the disappointing 2007 release of Living with the Living, it’s nice to see power-pop auteurs Ted Leo and the Pharmacists back on form with The Brutalist Bricks.
Post-apartheid South Africa sets the stage for MoLoRa, a Farber Foundry Theater production presented by Duke Performances. This tale of vengeance and suffering is adapated from an ancient Greek...
Coco Fusco, a now-canonical performance artist and feminist theorist, is coming to Duke to deliver a keynote address at this weekend’s Feminist Theory Workshop. Recess’ Claire Finch interviewed Fusco.
High Society, NYC Prep, The City and Real Housewives of New York: What happens when they come to Durham?
Danger Mouse and James Mercer's debut settles for a quiet, almost complacent mediation between their two styles.