LDOC lineup analysis, 2016 edition
By Dillon Fernando | March 31, 2016LDOC Analysis The acts for the 2016 LDOC were announced last week without the pitiful fake-out video and caustic Yik Yak student tirades.
LDOC Analysis The acts for the 2016 LDOC were announced last week without the pitiful fake-out video and caustic Yik Yak student tirades.
Full of wonders like sea monsters, labyrinths, minotaurs and puppets, The Duke Players’ upcoming Spring show will mirror the real world with fantasy.
This past week, Duke’s Out of the Blue released their new album, “Youth”. “Youth” is the latest in a rapid stream of albums that OOTB has released in the past few years.
Love is definitely a major theme in our music. So is sunshine. It’s really unintentional in a way, but I think we all really are inspired by life and the world and those themes just come through in our lyrics a lot.
On March 25, 2015 Zayn announced his separation from the intensely popular boy band One Direction and exactly one year later, on March 25, 2016, the world was blessed with the release his first solo album, Mind of Mine.
Writing the Meaningful Editor’s Note William Faulker once said according to some middle-aged woman’s blog, “I only write when I am inspired.
“The Characters,” Netflix’s newest original series, is a bold gambit for the streaming service.
“I’ve been working all my life, but I wonder/How does it feel to be rich? How does it feel to just live?” sings Kamaiyah on “How Does It Feel?,” the first single from her brand new debut mixtape A Good Night in the Ghetto. The answer to her question may appear sooner than she thinks.
From the fire extinguisher in Giles’s oven to the pizza box in Randolph’s dryer, pranks of this year’s freshman class are notorious among underclassmen and upperclassmen alike.
Week of 3/27 Duran Duran 3/28 @ DPAC Growing up, my mom would always play Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf” in the car on our way to school, so naturally I assumed the band was old and no longer together.
It’s [insert late winter month], and you know what that means. That’s right, America’s scowliest, coldest, power hungriest family has returned!
As expected during the calm of Spring Break, campus was eerily empty. Even the ebb and flow of p-frosh, their families and members of the Durham community walking on the grounds in nearly perfect weather made only but a subtle hum.
The Nasher has been an integral part of Duke’s campus for the past ten years. Now, students have even more of an opportunity to interact with the museum through the Nasher’s introduction of the Museum Theory and Practice concentration for the Art History major.
Well, Recess readers, since I have the privilege of writing the post-Spring Break editor’s note, I feel obligated to write—at least a little bit—about my own Spring Break.
Duke students are aware of all of the changes taking place on Duke’s campus, but they may be less informed about those happening in Durham.
Duke students may remember Emma Watson’s speech to the United Nations announcing the HeForShe movement.
When the most important active recording artist in hip-hop unexpectedly drops a new track, we listen. When he drops eight of them, we stop and stare. Kendrick Lamar—alias Cornrow Kenny—has had one of the most impressive years in memory.
So, let’s get the important stuff out of the way. Leonardo DiCaprio won an Academy Award on Sunday. Yes, that Leonardo DiCaprio.
At the camp I have gone to—and eventually staffed—since I was nine years old, there is nothing to protect you from the unexpected...no matter who you are.
Irony is one of those elements that invigorates the intellectual function of a story if it is well applied. It makes storytelling sharper and clearer. It also creates tension in the story and helps the reader to follow and understand the narrative easily.