To graduate with distinction can be a nerve-wracking, audacious and glorious goal, allowing for recognition of brilliance and hard work.
Like a sniper's bullet ripping though flesh and bone, Sylvester Stallone's latest avenging kill em' all man-movie, Rambo, tears a hole though all sensibilities and artistic pretenses, making them...
If you've been eagerly awaiting the first solo release from Chris Walla, odds are you've been waiting a little longer than expected. In late 2007, the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a...
The Triangle is known as an area teeming with art and creativity, a perception strengthened by the fact that not one but two Broadway plays are now playing at Chapel Hill's Paul Green Theatre.
The Mars Volta manage to bring a new and more bizarre meaning to the word "excess" every time they make an album. Their fourth LP, The Bedlam in Goliath, is no different. The album is so steeped in...
I like to hug celebrities. Now put down the phone and don't call the police... let me explain myself. Charlie McSpadden's celebrity sight-seeing at this year's Sundance Film Festival reminded me...
In times of desperation, how do we look to love? If these were our last hours on earth, would the superficiality of form dictate our chance at happiness? These are the questions posed in the...
"You've got to be a star to be a star." That's what showbiz seems to be telling main character Lainie, the aspiring Broadway actress of INTERN the musical, which is playing in East Duke 209 today,...
"We're going to take it from one end of the spectrum to the other, from the gospel to the country, and you can't ask for any more than that," Burke promises. "We're just gonna spiritually rock that...
When artists as varied as Johnny Cash and Akon choose the same topic to sing about, you know it must be of some cultural importance. In this case, it is prison life that commands public fascination.
As thrilled as I was to see Sienna Miller back on the silver screen since her stunning performance in Factory Girl, director Rawson Marshall Thurber's (Dodgeball) film version of Michael Chabon's...
Writer, director and lead actress in her first feature film, Marianna Palka won the hearts of Sundance audiences this year with her deadpan comedy Good Dick. The film, candid in its tone, examines...
Michel Gondry, best known for his direction of the critically-acclaimed Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, departs from his fantastic visuals, the integration of special effects and use of...
Desperate Housewives fans may be eager to see Eva Longoria Parker in her new film, Over Her Dead Body. Unfortunately, fans and hormone-raging males will be disappointed to learn the temptress dies...
Everyone has heard about the Nasher, but great, evocative art can be found in unlikely places if one knows where to look. Tom Rankin, Director of the Center for Documentary Studies here at Duke,...
Although it's tempting to judge senior Keith Nimene merely by his appearance, one would be quite misled. A musician, writer and designer, he is a man cloaked with many layers.
The Savages is a funny title. It sounds like an inane comedy about Cro-Magnons bonking each other on the head. In fact, it is something entirely different.
Students who normally walk past the Bryan Center's Brown Gallery without so much as a glance in, may now be enticed to turn off their iPods and enter.
Celebrity mourning is one of the strangest parts of pop culture. 99 percent of the people who will be mourning Ledger will have never met him and yet their sadness is as genuine and heartfelt as...
Full disclosure: even before listening to this album, I knew that Natasha could not be my favorite Bedingfield.
