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(03/26/19 4:30am)
Part of a fringe sub-sub-genre lovingly dubbed “The Wave,” La Dispute is a divisive entity with a fiercely loyal following and a way with words. Over 10 years ago, they released their first full-length album, “Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair” — an album that turned Japanese folklore into scream-spoken vocals set to all manner of instrumentals influenced by screamo, jazz, prog-rock and punk. Now heralded as “one of the most unique hardcore albums of the century,” “Somewhere” flipped the script on what it meant to be a hardcore or post-hardcore band.
(01/23/19 5:40am)
Our childhoods are ruled by borderline obsessions. At least, mine was. Often still indicative of my personality is my all-or-nothing approach to my interests. Either I loved something and would express that love at every opportunity, or I had no interest in it at all. I loved ancient Egyptian history, reptiles, hiking, rollerblading and watching television at home with my mom. All of these things I loved fiercely and still do. But some of my former passions have disappeared with age. I no longer have a collection of Polly Pockets hidden in my dorm room or a Tickle-Me Elmo sitting on my bed.
(11/14/18 5:15am)
Gustav Åhr — better known by his stage moniker Lil Peep — was just 21 years old and on the cusp of widespread fame. A rapper with the heart of an early-2000s emo kid, his distinctive sound combined trap beats and emo melodies with painfully honest lyrics about depression, failed relationships and indulgent drug use. In the span of four tapes and a studio album, he carved out a niche for himself in the underground rap world alongside his peers in Gothboiclique, the alternative rap collective to which he belonged.
(10/17/18 4:00am)
Contrary to popular belief, the ideal place to watch a concert is not center stage, but rather from the left-hand side, stage right, about three feet from the speakers. In this spot, the bass hits the hardest. You can feel every strum of the strings, every blow to the drumhead in your chest, like the music is coming from you and not from the instruments being plucked and struck on stage. I know this from experience, though I can’t tell you how old I was at my first concert, or even who I saw.
(08/29/18 4:25am)
America’s fascination with violent crime is not a uniquely millennial phenomenon, though true crime documentary series seem to have exploded almost overnight. This summer saw the Netflix release of the docu-series “The Staircase”, which tells a story close to home. In 13 episodes that span roughly 15 years, “The Staircase” covers the trial, imprisonment, and appeals of Michael Peterson, a Durham novelist and former editor of The Chronicle accused of killing his wife in their home in 2001.
(07/11/18 4:00am)
All good things must come to an end, and Vans Warped Tour is no exception. Founded by Kevin Lyman in 1995, the festival is credited with propelling bands like Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance to global success. This summer, the festival is taking its last trip across the country, bringing bands to even the most overlooked of middle American cities.
(04/25/18 4:05am)
(04/04/18 4:28am)
Equally as problematic as it is binge-worthy, Netflix’s “Queer Eye” revival reinforces stereotypes about homosexuality and masculinity all the while purportedly debunking them. Originally called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” the show stars the “Fab Five” — a group of gay men each with their own area of expertise (beauty, fashion, culture, food and interior design). In a take similar to Stacey and Clinton’s on “What Not To Wear,” the Fab Five then make over the life of a straight man in need.
(03/28/18 4:00am)
There are some films that almost everyone agrees are unsuitable for children. But among these unsuitable films are the gory slasher flicks and creature horror movies I grew up watching. By the age of seven, I had played every dark-jacketed, age-inappropriate VHS tape on the bookcase in my father’s TV room. Though I never expected to stumble upon something that would change my life during my weekend movie marathons, that’s exactly what happened. Sandwiched between Stephen King’s 1990 made-for-television miniseries “It” and Daniel Myrick’s 1999 mock found-footage film “The Blair Witch Project,” another film caught my eye with the bold red gothic lettering on its spine: 1994 cult classic “The Crow.”
(03/21/18 4:00am)
Sorority Noise is a band that, more than most, embraces the personal. Last year, the Connecticut natives released their third studio album, “You’re Not As _____ As You Think,” an emotionally-charged LP inspired by the death of vocalist Cameron Boucher’s close friend. Following the same lyrical style as previous albums “Forgettable” and “Joy, Departed,” “You’re Not As _____ As You Think” is unflinching and uncomfortable: a candid and intimate discussion of friendship, grief and mental illness that feels just as cathartic for members of the band as it does for listeners.
(03/07/18 5:00am)
Netflix is cashing in on the success of “Stranger Things” with its new original series, “Everything Sucks!,” a tale of teenage love, angst and friendship set in the mid-1990s.
(02/28/18 5:05am)
Durham’s own Carolina Theatre is well-known in the community for its special film programming, including their Retro Film Series, the NC Gay + Lesbian Film Festival and the upcoming Anime-Magic Film Series, to name a (small) few. This past weekend saw one of those special programs in its 19th and highest-grossing year: Nevermore Film Festival, a “three-day feast of the macabre” that includes horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy, animation, mystery/suspense and action-thriller films. Between Friday and Sunday, the Carolina Theatre screened 10 features and a number of short films from all over the world, each produced with the same goal in mind — to disquiet, and sometimes disgust, their viewers.
(02/21/18 5:00am)
In her recent, fiery Golden Globes speech, Oprah Winfrey said, “I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women … fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.”
(02/07/18 5:00am)
It’s Spring semester of my junior year at Duke and I’m wondering where the time went — not because it’s flown by, like everyone said it would, but because I’m just now gaining my footing. It’s taken me three years to find a group of friends I feel like I can depend on, to decide on the academic path that will determine my future opportunities, to seek out the extracurricular activities that bring me joy — regardless of whether they will impress my future resume-readers. I have ahead of me only two semesters, eight classes and nine-odd months on this campus before my college career is over. I can’t help but feel that just as I’m settling in, Duke is pushing me out.
(01/31/18 5:00am)
Social media is perhaps the most pervasive technology in our world today, especially among college-aged people. Nearly everyone I know has some sort of social media profile: Facebook for keeping up with campus events; Instagram for showcasing your best, most attractive achievements; Snapchat for communicating with your real friends; maybe Tinder for passing the time. We spend so much of our days looking at our phone and computer screens, engaged in a virtual world composed primarily of images — images that we take for granted as benign and consumable.
(01/24/18 5:00am)
When dealing with women’s issues, we’re often told that, slowly but surely, conditions are improving — that the wage gap is closing, that more and more women are being employed in male-dominated fields each year. We’re told that change can’t happen quickly or all at once, but that it is, undoubtedly, happening. Women in the film industry have been waiting patiently for their gradual change for decades. When 50% of film school graduates are women but only 4.2% of Hollywood films are directed by women, female filmmakers have been left wondering why their industry is shutting them out. The idea that women’s position in the world is improving each year — coined Creeping Incrementalism — is unsupported, in the film industry and elsewhere. In fact, the number of Hollywood movies directed by women filmmakers annually (4.2%) has remained consistent for the past 20 years.
(01/22/18 5:00am)
It takes a certain amount of care and attention to capture the beauty in objects that are easily overlooked, and photography instructor Bill Bamberger has spent the last 13 years doing just that. His upcoming photography exhibition “Courtside” reveals the beauty, history, and significance hidden in, of all things, basketball hoops.
(01/03/18 5:00am)
The fourth series of BBC’s “People Just Do Nothing” hit Netflix in September 2017. Reminiscent of deadpan comedy mockumentaries like U.K.’s “The Office,” the show chronicles the daily lives of MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa) and DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin), two friends who run a pirate radio station in West London despite being truly awful at what they do. With the help of drug enthusiast Steves (Steve Stamp) and reserved DJ Decoy (Daniel Sylvester Woolford), 108.9 Kurupt FM broadcasts UK garage and drum-and-bass to the Brentford area. Chabuddy G (Asim Chaudhry), an ever-evolving but never successful entrepreneur, tags along, offering solutions to Kurupt’s problems that almost always exacerbate them. Each 30-minute episode is its own self-contained story, but it is the characters and their relationships that unite each short series.
(12/06/17 5:00am)
According to the American Sexual Health Association, 50% of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection by age 25. In 2015, the Center for Disease Control reported a sharp increase in the rates of three sexually transmitted diseases — syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia — and found that people ages 15 to 24 accounted for most of these new cases. Another report from the CDC in 2015 stated that young people ages 13 to 24 accounted for 22% of new cases of HIV that year.
(11/29/17 5:00am)
Girls inherit wisdom about themselves at a young age, and some of that wisdom is undoubtedly meant to save us the time and energy of trying and failing. We’re told that we’re not good at math, that our hair looks better long, that we don’t have the attention span required to operate motor vehicles. And thank goodness, because now we don’t have to attempt to parallel park — we already know we won’t be any good at it!
