Tamyra Gray was arguably the best talent to come out of the first season of American Idol. But she was voted out prematurely, and Kelly Clarkson went on to win it all..
Alongside Mac McCaughan (vocals/guitar) and Laura Ballance (bass), Jim Wilbur (guitar) and John Wurster (drums) compose the pop-punk quartet Superchunk, one of the most important and...
In the opening sequence of his film Alila, the director reads the credits in voiceover, concluding with "and the director is me, Amos Gitai. Producer: Me, Amos Gitai.
Forget Iraq, forget the economy. Some of the biggest threats to President George W. Bush this political season can be found in a theater near you..
For years, men have been misled by makeup. Most proclaim they like girls who don't wear it, yet they drool over images of Pamela Anderson's mascara'd lashes and Christina Aguilera's lacquered lips.
Nowadays, slapping the golden word "diet" on the cover of a book is practically a guarantee that the volume will be a best-seller.
As the newest class of Duke freshmen runs headfirst into the Gothic Wonderland, RECESS would like to reflect back on the year they made their first appearance on the world's stage.
You've heard it before. You've probably even uttered the words yourself: "There is nothing to do in Durham.
As a Duke student, chances are you'll end up in Washington, D.C. one way or another.
Quitter John bassist Ashwin Alexander just graduated from Duke last May, leaving the place where the band first met and played for the past two years.
NEW YORK -- David Sedaris, known for both his sardonic, best-selling books and his dynamic public performances, seemed right at home in the basement of a small independent Manhattan bookstore on a...
Your style conveys your attitudes, tastes and preferences in music, food and lifestyle to everyone around you.
I came to Duke three years ago, a naïve, skinny freshman. Now, a little less of each, I prepare to take the helm of the monkey circus that is the Chronicle's arts and entertainment magazine: RECESS.
Every month or so, yet another new rap emcee comes along with a new single raging on Top 40 radio.
The term "independent film" used to mean wannabe directors financing their movies with maxed out credit cards and casting their non-actor friends.
In an election year, celebrities are voters, too: they decide with the rest of their fellow Americans which candidate they should support.
An egg--quaintly simple, pleasantly symmetrical. A small crack appears. Suddenly it is broken in two, a hollow inside exposed. Then gone, as if it were never there to begin with. .
Arts Lead Writer Lexi Richards spent six weeks in Havana with the Duke in Cuba program this summer.
Mike Skinner has the uncanny ability to make even the most mundane situations seem interesting.
When you're being buried alive, the final nail in the coffin lid is a bad thing, relatively speaking. But maybe it's that first nail which really gets you thinking. .
