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Last Thursday, I went to bed in Harlem, N.Y. with my pride as a native Tar Heel diminished by the news that North Carolina was attempting to ban gay marriage with a constitutional amendment. Sadly, the decision to exile myself from my native state was the right one.
Any artist who hopes to create immortal works that become part of the elusive, intransigent canon must combine their virtuosity with the ability to reflect a sense of his or her own time. Austen and Joyce did it, as did Beethoven, Picasso, Walker Evans.... The short list continues, but one common denominator was that each rode the zeitgeist like a zephyr into immortality.
With last year's two major shows, Rodin and In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West, the North Carolina Museum of Art brought in a record number of visitors and new memberships, and a great deal of local buzz. However, the very obvious push to bring more visitors often seemed to be driving the choice of art being shown, as NCMA Director Larry Wheeler seemed to have an acute case of the Mona Lisa syndrome.
Adaptations of famous literary works, whether to screen or stage, are limited by the time an audience is willing to sit for them. In the end, if you are familiar with the longer text-based work, you debate with the adapting dramatist over what might have been saved, what might have been cut. It is always an imperfect product, simply because of its necessary connection with-and inability to equal-the original masterwork.
After three months on the job as executive director of the Community Shelter for HOPE in downtown Durham, Spencer Bradford faces both a period of high possibilities and high uncertainty. Five years after work on the first grant applications began, the shelter will undergo a $1.5 million renovation of its Liberty Street facilities.
Last Friday, Sheela got the news that she had been waiting for. Kamlesh Agrawal, the suspect in her sister Deepa's murder, had been arrested in a suburban hotel in Mumbai, India.
About 3,000 people, including a number of public officials, converged on East Campus for the 15th annual North Carolina Pride march for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights last Saturday.
Like most people, Brandon Cox knows that his parents love him. He knows they care about what happens in his life and that, in many ways, they support him as their son. But the Trinity senior also knows that, in one very key way, they decided not to help him.
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."
Luyala, the new dance opera that premieres tonight at Page Auditorium, combines the traditions of classical opera with modern and African-American dance. What began five years ago as the vision of librettist Penelope Bridgers will finally arrive on stage as a visually and musically impressive interpretation of an African folktale.
When you see the things that Duke's administration supports, sometimes you just have to ask yourself, "What were they thinking?" Such was the case when I walked into the computer cluster in Perkins Library on the Saturday after spring break.
At slightly over nine years, the United States' current economic expansion is the longest in the nation's history. With a combination of record low unemployment, low inflation and high productivity, it continues to show no sign of slowing in the near future. What happens to the University when the market heats up?
L inda Dahl, the author of the recently released Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams, is clear about where she thinks Williams stands in the halls of jazz: "It's still safe to say that she's the greatest woman jazz musician that we've had," she said.
Trinity freshman Brandon Lowy has served his first term as a Duke Student Government legislator and is ready to continue his involvement by serving as vice president for facilities and athletics.
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T he four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University had finished a full day of classes that Monday afternoon in 1960. But Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond had one more assignment ahead of them: writing a new chapter of our history.
Almost everyone knows the feeling: You've slipped and slid the whole day, trying to be careful and go slow. And then, when you least expect it, what was vertical becomes horizontal.
Community theater is alive and well in Carrboro. Curtain Up!'s current productions feature all the hallmarks of small-town American dramatic art: spare, suggestive sets, local actors and close-to-the-audience drama. The company is currently presenting two one-acts, Edward Albee's break-through play The Zoo Story and Durham playwright Sheryle Criswell's Mourning the Marigolds, at the Carrboro ArtsCenter.
T o the growing list of the "dot-com" companies floating around in cyberspace-that modern-day field of dreams-add one more: startemup.com. This new student-run Internet venture hopes to rev up the entrepreneurial spirit and energy of students and turn their ideas into viable businesses that may some day come to stand beside such powerhouses as Yahoo.com and Dell Computer.
More than anyone, two people have shaped Duke's destiny in the 1990s: Nan Keohane, the outsider president who has led the University to new financial and academic heights, and Mike Krzyzewski, the insider basketball coach who has propelled the team and the school to unheard-of national prominence.
