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The films you can't forget
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The films you can't forget
In an effort to open up opporunities for involvment in the Arts, the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau and Durham Arts Council has unveiled the Durham Cultural Master Plan. Intended to preserve what exists in Durham's cultural landscape, such as Durham's extensive murals, and promote its expansion, the Master Plan will promote cultural festivals and events like the Durham Blues Festival. It's part of the "build it and they will come" philosophy of tourism and promotion.
John Leguizamo took the Page Auditorium stage Tuesday night with a friendly wave and a brewski in hand. As I heard someone whisper behind me, "Is that a beer?", he took a slow sip of Heineken and announced, "I'm trying something a little different tonight, so I brought some lubrication."
"I have a vagina... and I like to be on stage. That's what I said at auditions. Women's issues are important to me, and some of the issues in the monologues are things I can relate to in my life."
The Blacks: A Clown Show, running this weekend at The Ark on East Campus, pushes the questions and boundaries of race and theater in ways Duke's campus has never seen before. Written by Jean Genet as a play-within-a-trial-within-a-play, an all-black cast (well, in this case, almost all-black) re-enacts the rape and murder of a white woman for a mock court of other black actors, masked, costumed and dialectically performing as white aristocrats.
"This show is a plea to everyone to just take a hard look at yourselves, and no matter what you see, just rock the hell out."
George Bush has fallen off one (and no, it's not a stupid tree). It has appeared in random CIA-spoof films and on Amazon.com, is referred to jokingly/vaguely in humanities circles and more explicitly in engineering ones. It's big and gray and costs between $3995 and $5500. I'm talking about the Segway.
Black box theater, while often freeing, produces a number of challenges--sets are often simple, funding low and time limited. The small scale of the theater and scarcity of technical aids also heighten the importance of everything on stage, from the emotion to the props. Two one-act plays, Variations on the Death of Trotsky and Tape, presented by Duke Players Lab Theater and opening tonight, grapple with such limitations and succeed, with occasionally uneven efficiency. Variations on the Death of Trotsky, a short piece by David Ives and directed by Caroline Haubold, opens the night with a burst of humor. Leon Trotsky, played by Jeremy Chapman, discovers an axe smashed into the back of his head with the help of an Encyclopedia Britannica and his wife, played by Caroline Patterson. They postulate on the reasons for the axe in his skull, how long he might have to live, the virtues of "buried" versus "smashed" and what they should tell the cook about dinner.
Let's say this woman's pregnant. She's got nine kids already and no husband. Her back hurts and the kids's going to be a handful--a deaf and syphilitic womanizer with high chances of dying young. Should she abort? Say yes? Congratulations! You just killed Beethoven!
Get out your washboard and start clicking Snapple caps--the Bang on a Can All-Stars are coming to town. This sextet out of New York's Bang on a Can Festival plays new music with an undefinable flair: clarinet, saxophone, electric guitar, cello, bass, keyboards and percussion combine to form a sound somewhere between jazz, rock and classical--as one music critic put it, the All-Stars are New York's "premiere genre busters." Although the group's name sounds childish, their sound is not--the ensemble plays supremely difficult, fast-paced music, and comes from diverse musical backgrounds, from Juilliard to Baryshnikov's ballet. Their stop at Duke this weekend is part of their year-long tour spanning the Midwest, Europe and Lincoln Center before resting in residency for Bang on a Can's Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
When Ben Stein entered Page Auditorium on Parent's Weekend, he announced his devotion to Dr. Dre. When Ferris Bueller's teacher tells your parents that rap is cool, you know it hasn't just hit the mainstream--it's settled in. Anyone? Yo, anyone?
I was driving home for fall break, on I-95 about 25 miles south of D.C. I was listening to the soundtrack of "Pippin", when, one lane over and two cars up, a white Explorer swerved off the road, hit the barrier, and flipped 15 feet in the air, landing in the foliage on the side of the road where the undercarriage burst into flames. The highway turned smoky with white dust and tire fragments, and although no one screeched to a halt, everyone slowed down.
"If you have a voice, it needs to be heard," writes the slam poet Abyss. Abyss appears on HBO's "Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry," a late-night staple that spawned a Broadway show (the aptly named "Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway") currently on tour, hitting Chapel Hill tonight.
We present this report not only with the aim of improving the climate for women at Duke, but also to improve the experience for all who work or study here."
Whether you've been inspired by the artistic efforts of your neighbors across the hall, finally realized that Friday night on the Duke social scene no longer exists or just want to light up a Cuba Libre in a sculpture garden, tread no farther than Chapel Hill.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In his landmark 1956 study, anthropologist Horace Miner examined the body rituals of the Nacirema, a people embarrassed by their their physical selves and their physical functions, including any emotions they might reveal. Although the Nacirema live in a thriving economy, to which they devote as much time as possible, they still lack validation in themselves--some even believe that parents bewitch their own children.
How can one explore, expose and explicate gay life? How does the government decide to fund artists?
It's happened to all of us. You plop onto the futon with a pint of your favorite super-premium ice cream, ready to binge-eat your troubles away when... is that fair-trade coffee you taste in your cleverly named creamy caffeinated snack? Since when does enjoying ice cream necessitate funneling your hard-earned, tax-breakable dollars into wacko leftist causes like worker non-exploitation? DCU members, fear not! Star-Spangled Ice Cream is here! Conservative and creamy, Star-Spangled Ice Cream's manufacturers believe that America is "the best country ever" and they set out to make "the best ice cream ever!" Jumpin jillickers, Georgie! Let's get ourselves some spoons and dig into some Smaller Govern-mint!
Anime, Japan's most popular artistic export, has taken a temporary foothold in the Bryan Center. "Perception is Reality," a showing of works by Priscilla Troy in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery, uses anime cutouts and paper art materials to explore themes of transience, the diminishing Japanese population, feminist issues and national defense. The Brown Gallery, an often bypassed section of the Bryan Center's upper level, hosts a number of shows each year, featuring local and national artists. The student-run Visual Arts Committee, an arm of the Duke University Union, chooses the artists each year, and has been in existence since 1968, originally managing a range of visual arts including film and video.