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Marissa Nadler has churned out records with exceptional regularity for well over a decade. With Ama Divers opening, she will bring her dreamy "ghost folk" to the Pinhook July 9. Nadler spoke with former Recess editor Lauren Feilich about the need to create, the satisfying drone of talk radio and more.
I counted my lucky stars when I scored one of the last few tickets to Gloria Steinem's speaking engagement, but halfway through the Q&A portion at the end, I ducked out of the Chapel and into the drizzle. Puzzled by my dissatisfaction with her speech and enraged by the return of cold weather, I made my way to the Bryan Center and found a friend with whom I could decompress. She, also, was uneasy with some of what Steinem said. We attempted to parse through what felt like jadedness.
Trinity senior Drew Klingner will graduate this May after years of involvement with Hoof 'n' Horn and the theater studies department. Klingner spoke with Recess about his thesis production, "Parade."
It's a banner that acts as the first thing someone sees when they try to creep your profile, the millennial handshake.
In his band Mutual Benefit, singer-songwriter Jordan Lee found a space to experiment with pop in a collaborative setting. He spoke with Recess editor Lauren Feilich about Miley Cyrus, raw meat and the thrill of the making music together. Mutual Benefit will perform at Local 506 in Chapel Hill February 6.
Phil Watson is a Trinity senior majoring in theater studies and classical studies. For his heavy involvement in theater both at Duke and in Durham, Recess spoke with Watson about his years at Duke and his exciting final project for the spring.
Here it is, in all of its glory: the last Recess issue of 2013. More specifically, here on this page, you are reading the last editor’s note of the calendar year. With the semester wrapping up in a reliably frantic delirium, I wanted to spare myself the aggravation of wracking my already melted headspace for topic ideas. Rather than muse on the gendering of campus art spaces, I will indulge in a subject that has come easily to me in conversations with friends over the last few weeks: video games.
This year, the keynote speaker of DEMAN Weekend is Adam Chodikoff ('93). As senior producer of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Chodikoff plays an essential role in the daily workings of the critically-acclaimed nightly political comedy program. The Chronicle's Lauren Feilich spoke with Chodikoff about what exactly he does, and more.
In 12th grade, my English teacher taught Voltaire’s “Candide.” We analyzed Voltaire’s use of humor, cliché, cultural criticism and most importantly, satire. Voltaire brings up his distaste with various institutions and philosophies illustrated through larger-than-life adventures of the optimistic (and eventually disillusioned) character, Candide. The objective of satire, in theory, is to illuminate social, political or cultural problems; it implicitly or directly criticizes those who are perceived culpable for creating and perpetuating those problems. Satire, in its best manifestations, moves citizens to action against a substandard norm.
Beginning in the summer of 2014, Duke will have a stake in the Midwest’s premier arts metropolis. A new program in Chicago will allow students to take the plunge into the intersection between the arts and entrepreneurship.
One afternoon this past July, I found myself sitting in the grass of Union Park, devouring a vegan Philly cheesesteak and squinting through sweaty sunglasses at a far-off stage. It was the end of my trip to Chicago and the beginning of my first Pitchfork Music Festival. I was with a group of friends who were far more experienced music festival attendees than I was, but I felt excited for what seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We determined which acts we would see together and for which acts we would split up, making devastating choices when two beloved shows coincided on the schedule.
Growing up in the suburbs of South Florida, public transportation opportunities were slim to none. It’s the nature of the sprawl. Interesting places are separated by long expanses of highway, and my public high school took kids from all over Broward County, so my friends were never within walking distance of me or each other. My modest social life depended on the always precarious task of “getting a ride.” But do not pity me—I made it through and wound up somewhat well-adjusted regardless, and the summer before college eventually reached its end.
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of All of the Above, a theatrical production co-sponsored by Urgent Theater, Baldwin Scholars and Duke Student Government’s Student Organization Finance Committee (SOFC). The production consists of ten different monologues that were written and submitted by anonymous students.
Home of prolific record labels such as Merge Records, dozens of small music venues and many nationally-touring bands, the Triangle’s abundant music scene is hard to fully comprehend. There are rarely moments when dozens of the Triangle’s musicians come together under one roof. And there has yet to be an album that showcases the diverse talent that calls the area home.
Golden Grrrls engage pop culture without embarrassment. Their name is associated both with a sitcom (of the same name) and a third-wave feminist punk movement (Riot Grrrls). They don’t try to escape tropes of the indie genre: rather they embrace a DIY attitude that celebrates the joys of even derivative music.
Like it or not, love will be in the air this Thursday night at Motorco Music Hall in downtown Durham. The stage is set for nearly a dozen different acts, all in the name of Valentine’s Day, under the collective title of LOVE: A Variety Show.
Julian Koster is best known for his work with the Elephant Six Recording Company as a member of Neutral Milk Hotel and the frontman of the Music Tapes. He and the Music Tapes will bring his latest experiment, “The Traveling Imaginary,” to the Duke Coffeehouse this Tuesday at 8 p.m. The group will pitch a circus tent inside of the Coffeehouse, within which they will host a night of music and entertainment. Recess writers Adrienne Harreveld and Lauren Feilich chatted with Koster about his unique stage antics, creative approach and future plans.
In 1973, the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade defined the choice to have an abortion as a fundamental right for women in the United States. This Sunday, 40 years later, it’s time to rejoice.
What defines the relationship between a retrospective and an introspective? Prefixes.
This Saturday night, the Carolina Theatre will transform into an arena for a perilous battle to save Earth from an extraterrestrial sludge monster invasion.
