Column: 5th year senioritis
(04/18/03 4:00am)
Sometimes I feel like a ghost walking through campus.
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Sometimes I feel like a ghost walking through campus.
So when the opportunity arises to interview Matthew McConaughey, you go for it. And Recess Editor Meg Lawson sure did. But to get to the golden nugget of Matthew-ness, she had to avoid the lame softball questions from other college journalists on the conference call. Here's her best shot at discovering what the hot Texan, whose film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days opens this weekend, is all about. (Also, in case you're interested, the questions Meg asked are bolded and italicized, while the other shmucks' are just bolded.)
So Mediterranean Deli and Catering in Chapel Hill won't win any awards for name originality, but they certainly have some of the best Middle Eastern food in the area. I was introduced to the restaurant a couple of weeks ago by a friend, who I had previously dragged to several new spots. I must admit to much trepidation when I followed his lead and ordered the shawerma - a chicken or beef sandwich marinated with Lebanese spices served in a pita. But the beef was pleasantly spicy without being heavy, so I decided to return for an official review.
I hear a lot of Duke students say they're too busy to watch TV. Well, maybe you just can't wade through all the choices, so we're here to help.
Martin Scorsese's ambitious epic has flaws, most notably its historical inaccuracies, but nothing can derail this finely crafted freight train of a movie. In time, Gangs of New York will surely prove to be one of the most enduring films of our time, but maybe not for obvious reasons:
Maybe you can't imagine Life With(out) Bonnie now or you've become swept up in American Dreams, but for every show that gets picked up, another gets canned. These are their stories:
I went into Femme Fatale wondering two things: one, if model-turned-actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos could carry a movie by herself; two, if writer/director Brian De Palma could carry out both his duties better than he did in Snake Eyes. The answer to both, unfortunately, is no. But, the movie is not without a lot of bright spots--most notably the amazing visuals for which director De Palma is well-known.
Tickle me, forget the Elmo! Kelly Heaton, an artist-in-residence at Duke, has been skinning the popular Tickle Me Elmo dolls in the name of creativity.
emember that Rage Against the Machine video during the 2000 election that showed Dubya and Gore's faces morphed together, symbolizing the purely cosmetic differences between the candidates? Beginning in January 2004, average Americans will have the opportunity to find their own out-of-the-box presidential candidate or to choose another centrist--with a little help from the FX Network.
I must've been to the Biltmore Estate near Asheville about five times, but probably the memory most deeply burned into my brain, for better or worse--mostly worse--occurred during a trip with my high school biology teacher. While walking through one of the dozens of bedrooms, we passed about the 10th or so bed with a neck roll at both the foot and the head to which Mr. Woolley commented, "They sure liked doin' the 69 in here, didn't they?"
After having the most successful launch of a syndicated talk show since mentor Oprah, Dr. Phil has, like many other TV shows, decided to pay the Gothic Wonderland a visit. Recess snuck into the filming of this very special episode and managed to record these excerpts:
As part of the Duke Artists Classics and Masterworks Series sponsored by the Institute for the Arts, Parsons Dance Company descends on Page Auditorium Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Recess Editor Meg Lawson speaks with the source, company founder David Parsons.
Since we're attempting to do something new this week--replacing the light-hearted fare that typically lines our pages with a more serious-minded evaluation of how art grapples with, mirrors and occassionally influences some of America's most pressing issues--we feel as if we owe an explanation as to why we chose to take this path.
Move over New York. Give it up, San Francisco. The International Olympic Committee is going to have some reconsidering to do once they realize that they overlooked DURHAM IN 2012. Our fair city is the perfect place for this hallowed international event for so many reasons....
The final nail has yet to be pushed into the wooded casket, but the demise is eminent: Duke's on-campus social scene is effectively dead. Occasionally, Fraternities can jump through enough administrative hoops to throw a raucous bash or Central Campus parties can attract enough people to make a dent on the university's social compass. Nevertheless, the lion's share of activity, now takes place in Durham and down 15-501 in Chapel Hill.
ocated deep in the heart of Chapa Thrill, the Lantern Restaurant artfully explores the white-hot Asian fusion craze.
The glamorous world of sportswriting--gone. Pressrooms brimming with yesterday's pork rinds and 300-pound "writers" with entire chicken wings stuck in their unkempt beards recounting tales of how they once (wink-wink) struck up a conversation with a broad--vanished.
Almost everyone's heard of it, and certainly you've seen it (or will see it pretty soon), but have you ever really gone to Duke's own museum? If you haven't, fall's the perfect time to remedy that. And if you have been, the Duke University Museum of Art has plenty happening this semester to pique your interest.
he annual American Dance Festival has once again gracefully leaped onto the stage at Duke. In its 25-year history in Durham, it has brought a level of dance and performance on a scale unmatched by any other local undertaking.
he rumors are true. The desperately-in-need-of-post-Soviet-money Russian government has cleared Lance Bass of the pop supergroup 'NSync to be the third space tourist. We at Recess are ecstatic to see Se-or Bass say "Bye, Bye, Bye" to earth. Now, if they could just happen to forget to bring him back....