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Two women in mini-dresses and stilettos engage in a hair-pulling, nail-scratching fight to the death.


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So I finally got a Twitter account, but because my Facebook statuses read like neo-Beatnik keyboard ejaculations, I’m too self-conscious to actually tweet, lest potential employers doubt my social...


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I am so sick of the word “hipster.” I’d argue that its current noun/adjective duality (“Look at that hipster!” vs. “That’s so hipster!”) only makes the word more reductive.


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I look at myself in the mirror several times every single day, sometimes for embarrassing lengths of time.


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I couldn’t care less about the Grammys, which actually surprised me this year by bestowing their “prestigious” Album of the Year distinction on Arcade Fire, a tremendous band represented by Durham...


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I’m 21 years old, a senior with nothing to do, so I go to bars.


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Rush can be a stressful time. No one wants to end up like that kid who didn’t get a bid to Slytherin and ended up going Ravenclaw, then couldn’t kick his nasty smokeless tobacco-and-black tar...


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Cellophane has a black tag around its toe, and it’s not going anywhere. Digital media has exploded into the hands of consumers and pros alike, scratching film’s death sentence into its fragile...


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Tonight on the C-1 the kid next to me pulled out a copy of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I have no idea why he not only possessed this book, but happened to be openly reading it on the bus—but...


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Things got a little crazy (rowdy? wild? kinky?) at Christmas this year. A little psycho-sexual, you might say.


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We at Recess are pretty convinced that our readership spikes drastically come finals week, when students campus-wide desperately search for distractions from studying for their Econ 428—“Investment...


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Once upon a time, there was a boy and girl. They both met in Los Angeles, and they fell in love.


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No doubt Recess would be remiss if we didn’t eulogize Four Loko, being the paper of record when it comes to candy-colored alcoholic beverages.


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Eat Pray Love really pisses me off. Like everybody else, I’m just tired of seeing the ads and book covers on the metros in Europe for a film released in August.


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When I went to the North Carolina State Fair last week, I had a disturbing experience that haunted me for days. And no, it didn’t involve fried food.