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By Janet Wu | September 27, 2007Good Luck Chuck is the cinematic equivalent of standing in front of an automated pitching machine. It's a generally painful experience.
Good Luck Chuck is the cinematic equivalent of standing in front of an automated pitching machine. It's a generally painful experience.
Recess recently sat down with Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, to talk about the release of their new album, Strawberry Jam and their U.S. tour.
It's now been more than 10 years since Dave Grohl engineered his unlikely transition from unemployed drummer to iconic frontman. It's pretty much impossible to deny that the Foo Fighters have had a...
I told Chronicle head honchos David Graham and Sean Moroney that recess would be done by midnight. It is 11:28 p.m. and we have more than an hour's work to do in 30 minutes.
Every year it seems a new fad diet emerges in the ongoing battle against rising obesity rates.
With the Sept. 18 release of A Bunch of Stuff, LCD Soundsystem's six-track EP offers listeners a slightly different take on their recent material, mostly in the form of remixes.
Unfazed and unaffected by all of the recent debate surrounding the ever-so-nebulous Campus Culture Initiative, the Duke University Union has simply continued to do what it has always done
Where can you find LL Cool J, sperm cells, Titian and bling all in one place? No, not at some fetishistic porn site, but in the work of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley.
John Waters is the fine-mustachioed incarnation of a grindhouse film. He lives in a lovingly dirtied domain of the explicit and extreme. He is a double feature of trash and auteurism.
It's been more than a decade and about a dozen Sonic Youth albums since 1995's Psychic Hearts, the first solo album from SY frontman Thurston Moore.
With 17 years of experience, stand-up comic Dane Cook has now made the transition to film, appearing in movies like Mr. Brooks and Employee of the Month. His latest project, Good Luck Chuck, pairs...
John Vanderslice has been around the block. Since breaking into the indie scene as frontman for the now-defunct mk Ultra, he's worked with pretty much everyone, from Spoon to the Mountain Goats to...
New York City experimental rock band Animal Collective returns with Strawberry Jam, almost two years after the release of 2005's critically acclaimed Feels.
Having eaten his way through many of the best and worst restaurants in the Triangle, recess Tastes editor Bryan Zupon ventures into territory strikingly unfamiliar to a devoted food writer.
Rogue Wave returns in all its jangly, indie-pop glory with Asleep at Heaven's Gate, its third full-length album.
Bullet holes aside, 50 Cent walks around with a mighty-big chip on his shoulder.
Most men in their late sixties are busy reveling in their retirement, spending their days playing golf or searching for the perfect assisted living community which their grown children will force...
Contrary to what literature will have you believe, not all artists are starving souls waiting to be acknowledged.
A man that people love to hate, but can't help but respect, Kanye West has long polarized audiences with his outlandish ego.
Fewer names loom larger or have more crossover appeal in today's classical music world than the Kronos Quartet. Violinist David Harrington, inspired by composer George Crumb, formed the group in 1973.