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quantum of solace

The action scenes prove top-notch, and though a few of them dip into unrealistic waters, the absence of absurd Pierce Brosnan-era, high-tech gadgets helps to keep the film grounded in a gritty...


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editor's note

It goes without saying-and without Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag's corny speech at Convocation ever year-that Duke students do some pretty impressive things, in and out of the classroom.


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Hendricks returns for residency

Barkley Hendricks does not look or talk like any other artist. He exudes the kind of cool one would expect from the giants of jazz and masters of funk of the 1970s, the very people he channels in...


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Schooner

The formation of Carrboro band Schooner seems lifted from a bad movie script, complete with serendipitous beginnings and the potential for fractured families. In 2003, Reid Johnson and Tripp Cox...


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Images of demolition and desuetude

Silent, aromatic halls of what was once a grimy, noisy, bustling engine of economy, now a ghost town in the middle of a city: That's what Durham photographer DL Anderson captures in When the Dust...


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Low expectations

We here at sacrasm weekly recess might not be the smartest kids around. Or the most popular. Or, for that matter, the most hygenic. But there is one thing that recess staffers have in spades:...


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Soul Men

At first glance, the pairing of Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac may seem unexpected, but the two show a surprising amount of chemistry on-screen in Soul Men. To say the result is funny and...


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Nathan Oliver

Nathan White, lead singer of the Chapel Hill-based Nathan Oliver, is a man with two very different passions: dentistry and rock music. He is a student of both the cavity and the chorus, the sealant...