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Reel World Reflections
By Charlie McSpadden | July 1, 2011"You want to be in the film industry, right?”
"You want to be in the film industry, right?”
Course Superintendent Billy Weeks has a problem. An asbestos-filled pipe circa 1957 has “blown out” around the Duke Golf Club’s No. 4 tee box, and the irrigation system for the hole won’t work now.
Never mind that Americans have long enlisted a callow iconography of Irishness as a means of flogging soap, beer, T-shirts, and Ben Affleck movies.
In my experience, I’ve found Duke’s political culture lacking.
Not so great in the name department? Planning to interact with some of the fresh new faces coming to campus in the fall?
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the scope of today’s environmental problems.
You haven't experienced North Carolina until you've been to the Quarry.
Convicted murderer Michael Peterson has been waiting for a retrial since 2003—a possibility that may occur at a hearing this September. But Peterson does not wait alone.
Friday morning March 11, I woke up to the news that there had been a record 8.9 magnitude earthquake off of the northeast coast of Japan.
Serving up 500 omelets a day, Wallace Burrows Jr. is a familiar sight to students at The Marketplace.
Setting: a theater. Rows of plush red seats cascade from three levels to an expansive stage that seems to extend the line of vision into the infinite. The ceiling plays with scale in a similar way;...
Everyone has pet peeves of the things Dukies wear on campus that they cannot stand.
Towerview sits down and chats with George Grody, visiting associate professor of Markets & Management Studies and chairman of the National Board of Advisors at Duke Children’s Hospital.
Dan Ariely received his first B in the second grade. When his mother asked him about the mark, he replied that he could either toil away for an A or do absolutely no homework and get a B.
Our hungry staff ordered a small cheese pizza from every pizza delivery company that would take our food points. We recorded the time they took to be delivered and the total amount charged...
The drive to Williamsburg, Virginia is one that I have made countless times. Simply follow the road signs to I-85 North and prepare for 128 miles of easy driving.
Jim Anile, executive chef at Revolution, was the first person to welcome me that morning. Sitting on a chair normally reserved for hungry, hopefully patient dinner guests, he sized me up immediately.
Cat Crumpler graduated from Duke last May. A public policy major, she now lives with four roommates in Cherry Valley, Arkansas—population: 659.
Midway through my first semester at Duke, I did something I still regret. I tallied the per-meal cost of my freshman year dining plan.
Fifteen miles from Duke, buffalo roam. Linda and Jeff Peloquin have ranched bison for six years on 80 acres at Hillsborough’s Vista Wood Bison Ranch, and they have more orders for meat than they...