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The Ghost Writer
By Sabrina Hamilton-Payne | March 18, 2010The Ghost Writer, however, transcends Roman Polanski's tainted legacy and reaffirms his status as one of the world’s best directors.
The Ghost Writer, however, transcends Roman Polanski's tainted legacy and reaffirms his status as one of the world’s best directors.
Gorillaz's latest release, Plastic Beach, is simultaneously their poppiest work and yet their most inaccessible.
Poor. Likely unemployed. A fan of sex. Jack Wilkinson considers prostitution.
Nee Patrick Douthit of Winston-Salem, N.C., 9th Wonder has been a mainstay of the Triangle hip-hop scene since the early part of the decade, when his original group Little Brother released debut...
Barbie just got another little sister. Europop Vicky is one sassy chick that knows how to sing.
It took Susannah Gora more than 100 interviews over the course of three years to put together her portrait of John Hughes and the Brat Pack. But despite never getting to speak to Hughes himself—the...
I was supposed to go camping this past weekend. I was holey (yes, holey) prepared to go. Friday, I went to the Outpost, where I borrowed a tent, two sleeping bags and a lantern (I’m scared s—less...
“For me, as an anthropologist, The Wire is incredibly socially robust. It reveals a world with all of its [connections],” Makhulu said.
The White Ribbon's style leaves audience members to be voyeurs of the film’s forbidding feudal world until Haneke reveals its place in historicity.
Potter Mark Hewitt, now based in Pittsboro, N.C., is as much an artisan as an artist, eschewing the boundaries between high art and functional craft. His new exhibition, Falling into Place,...
After a chance encounter in a bar, senior Erik Anderson had the opportunity to work as an extra on writer-director John Sayles’ forthcoming Baryo, a fictional drama about the Philippine-American...
If anything miraculous ever happened to me, it happened to my breasts—their saga worthy of their own Lifetime movie classic.
Dear God, I Hate Myself is not an album for everyone. Xiu Xiu seems almost deliberately alienating, making music that is disquieting and claustrophobic.
Durham transplant Jamie Stewart released his eighth studio album under the Xiu Xiu name, Dear God, I Hate Myself, Tuesday. Recess' Jonathan Wall caught up with the former Bay Area denizen before...
Last Tuesday morning, I was awoken by my persistent uncontrollable cough (bronchitis?), eyes crusted with puss (pink eye?), sinuses feeling like crap (definite infection) in my near-freezing,...