Plain and simple: Writer-director Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is one of the tastiest treats of the 2006-2007 season. He deftly depicts both beauty and horror in a visually stunning and...
As the awards season reaches its climax, recess offers our picks for the best in acting, writing and directing. This is the first of seven installments covering the 79th Academy Awards, presented...
If George W. Bush weren't president, Old Joy would still be a film of deft artistic touch and relevancy. But with "the Decider" facing his last few years in power, Kelly Reichardt's latest film...
Best-selling author Philippa Gregory is at it again with The Boleyn Inheritance, her latest historical fiction piece about the life of an English courtier. Like the book's successful predecessors...
Zach Braff of Scrubs once asserted that the music of an obscure lo-fi Sub Pop group, the Shins, had the raw power to change one's life. Instantly, the legions of quirky indie rock fans found a new...
Through a haze of smoke and veils of unwashed locks, Hoof 'n' Horn brings yet another Broadway favorite to the Duke community this month. The student-run theater company will perform James Rado's...
The beginning of spring semester at Duke is the perfect time to seek out fresh dining destinations for the new year. With many students reuniting after weeks spread across the country for the...
Forty years after John Coltrane's death, the jazz world lost two important links to the legendary saxophonist this week. Coltrane's widow Alice Coltrane, a pianist, harpist and organist, passed...
Once upon a time, cell phones were used just to make phone calls-but with the influx of phones that take pictures and videos and even stream TV shows, those days are long gone.
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino) It was hyped. And then it was hyped some more. But these British teens surpassed all expectations with Whatever People Say I...
Imagine this: it's a sunny day in New York's Central Park and a camera crew shoots two actors performing a screen test. Another set of cameramen follows the cameramen filming the actors. Still more...
Bill Bryson's first release since his widely-acclaimed popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything takes the reader back to the days when all seemed right in America: the 1950s. In...
Now that "small plates" have become ubiquitous in restaurants across the country, Spanish super-chef José Andrés sheds light on tapas, the traditional Spanish take on this international...
Meg Cabot's new novel/thinly-veiled memoir, and sequel to her unfortunately best-selling Size 12 is Not Fat, is a self-indulgent piece of garbage. In her purported quest to bolster the self-esteem...
What would happen if twenty years from today humans found themselves unable to procreate? If the events of Children of Men, the latest feature from director Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mamá...
There's always something unsettling when an artist releases two albums in the same year. Inevitably, the second lies in the shadow of the first, and brings up many speculative questions: is this...
Thursday is the new Friday at the Nasher Museum of Art. The museum's extended curfew Thursday nights invites visitors to dine late and peruse the galleries for an additional four hours, but it is...
recess' Jacqueline Detwiler joined in on a conference call with Meg Cabot, author of Size 14 is Not Fat Either, sequel to the best-selling Size 12 is Not Fat. recess: Who are you trying to reach...
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the greatest modern auteurs. His films weave elements of the supernatural into seemingly mundane events of daily life, creating aspects of the extraordinary out of thin...
When the Regulator Bookshop opened its doors 30 years ago, Durham was still a sleepy southern town, said owners Tom Campbell, Trinity '70 and John Valentine, Trinity '71, a former Chronicle editor...
