Allen Thomas’ vast collection of photography can usually be found in every nook and cranny of his Wilson, N.C. home. A visitor is likely to find a photograph leaning against a wall or bookshelf.
Hyped as a return to old form, Guero, Beck’s eighth album and his first since the less eclectic, beautifully melancholic Sea Change, is filled with the hip-hop grooves, samples, and ironic...
At first glance, it appears as if Sin City is the latest installment in the trend of increasingly gruesome comic books, but that impression is incorrect for a couple of reasons.
Once a label associated with anything do-it-yourself from style to politics, punk culture has become synonymous with its music.
Grey's Anatomy may be the worst show title since Andy Richter Controls the Universe. And yes, I got the pun.
When VOICES lost University funding last year, Shannon Johnson and other editorial board members of the Women’s Center’s annual literary magazine were faced with a difficult decision.
When the Spike Lee film Bamboozled first came out in October 2000, Professor Charlotte Pierce-Baker of the women’s studies department took her class to go see it at the theater.
Every “the” band pays homage to a certain predecessor. The Raveonettes from Copenhagen are no different as they bask in the purple haze of The Velvet Underground.
Citing budget constraints, Durham’s Carolina Theatre has morphed its annual Jewish Film Festival into a five-month series, featuring a single showing of a different Jewish film each month.
In the 21st century, hundreds of years after the indigenous wildlife of our Midwest was first hunted, media mogul Ted Turner has opened a chain of restaurants, each bearing the modest moniker...
Last November, the winner of the Duke/UNC Battle of the Bands was announced.
Chloe Does Yale, a semi-autobiographical work of fiction inspired by author Natalie Krinsky’s own weekly sex advice column for the Yale Daily News is, across the board, quite entertaining.
The new album from Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze, serves as a sorely needed shot of adrenaline for modern rock.
As the charts have already shown, the music-buying public for the last two years has impatiently anticipated the new Mars Volta record.
Mark Mothersbaugh's latest artistic endeavor disturbs and captivates the human eye at the same time. Beautiful Mutants 2005, Mothersbaugh's photography travelling exhibit, opens March 11th...
Indie. Post-Punk. Art-Rock. New Wave Revivalism. It doesn't really matter what you call it. In a scene where it’s commonplace for bands to sport women’s pants and wear eyeliner in...
Kalindri Padia, Siva Allu and Nagi Reddy want to bring a new type of theater experience to North Carolina. With the opening of their Galaxy Cinema in Cary Dec. 30, they have done just that. The...
5. Tough Guy Babysitters Hollywood’s infatuation with putting high profile beefcakes in mothering role is no new phenomenon (see Hulk Hogan in Mr. Nanny or Arnold Schwarzenegger in...
After 10 years together that produced four major label albums, Blink 182 announced that they will be going on an “indefinite hiatus.” A label representative stated that this was in...
