The Chronicle

The Nasher Museum's new exhibition entitled Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool certainly lives up to its name.

Doris Duke holds an important place in the Duke legacy, but few know about the relationship she had with her butler.

A collection of letters, along with photos of these split families, are a part of Pai, Estou Te Esperando/Father, I Am Waiting For You, a visual documentary now on display on the first floor of the Sanford Institute for Public Policy.

To graduate with distinction can be a nerve-wracking, audacious and glorious goal, allowing for recognition of brilliance and hard work.

This is one of the few weeks that we are not running an article on Duke Performance's Soul Power series and that is a crying shame.

Augustana began with humble roots in Greenville, Il. as college students studying music. Abruptly the band decided to uproot themselves and move to California to live their dreams as musicians.

When one hears the phrase "T.V. movie," images of battered women from the Lifetime channel and warm and fuzzy family comedies a la the Hallmark channel are conjured-clearly the pinnacle of innovative filmmaking today.

Bruges: A quaint medieval Belgium town and a veritable fairy tale untouched by the hands of time. Well, not if the Irish have anything to say about it.

You're unlikely to hear more buzz about a band this year than that surrounding the quartet of Columbia graduates Vampire Weekend.

On Lucky, Nada Surf has stuck to what they do best. If you are unfamiliar with what that is, it's the most positive indie pop around.

The album's acoustic pieces are not only the most catchy, but their lyrics also fully reveal the Trucker's sense of humor and reflective insight.

Post-punk, post-noise, post-whatever-band Xiu Xiu (sort of pronounced "shoe shoe") recently released Women as Lovers, their sixth studio album and first on the Kill Rock Stars label.

Smooch is a hard band to label. Literally. They only use the Smooch moniker for their cover music. The name they like to use for their original material? Well, that's yet to be decided.