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(04/27/09 7:00am)
When I woke up the morning, or rather afternoon, after LDOC and groggily tried to recall the end of my last LDOC, I realized that I had survived it more or less intact. For the past four years, I've treated LDOCs like birthdays-as a day filled with celebration, inebriation and a sense of pride and fear, all in the midst of good friends. And after every LDOC, I would be both in awe and disbelief that another year had passed, that I was no longer going to be a college freshman or sophomore or junior... or senior.
(04/09/09 7:00am)
It's pink, it's blonde and it sings.
(04/09/09 7:00am)
Weighing in at 0.38 ounces and standing at a mere 1.8 inches tall, the newest Apple iPod Shuffle is one of the smallest music players on the market. The third generation Shuffle, offered in silver and black, ups the storage capacity to four gigabytes, relocates the controls to the earphones and offers new voice technology.
(04/02/09 7:00am)
Ravaged by decades of war and exploitative use of its natural resources, King Berenger's kingdom has decayed from a mighty country to near ruin. On top of the country's collapse, 400-year-old Berenger, who could once control the forces of nature, is now faced with the news that he is dying. Inspired by a childhood fascination with the idea of immortality, Eugene Ionesco penned Exit the King during a bout of illness that reawakened his fear of death.
(03/19/09 7:00am)
In 2002, American journalist and Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and gruesomely murdered while working on an investigative piece in Pakistan. His last moments, caught on tape and released virally by his captors, incited uproar and horror. Following his death, Daniel's widow, Mariane Pearl, published A Mighty Heart, a memoir recounting Daniel's life and the pursuit of his murderers.
(02/12/09 9:00am)
Watt's Grocery
(01/15/09 9:00am)
This Friday, Duke will play host to a breakout star in the classical piano world, a late-blooming but chart-topping Bach interpreter.
(10/02/08 4:00am)
Weighing in at a slim 1.3 ounces and available in nine different colors, the fourth generation of Apple's iPod nano ($149 for 8 GB and $199 for 16 GB) has secured its spot as the sleekest and prettiest of the bunch.
(09/18/08 7:00am)
Apparently Gossip Girl is every parent's nightmare: a mind-blowingly inappropriate, nasty piece of work-and it's very bad for you.
(09/04/08 4:00am)
When Jessica Laun graduated from Duke in 2005 with a major in music theory and composition, she found herself badgered by people asking "just what [she] was going to do with [her] degree."
(09/04/08 4:00am)
Kaboom, a comedy written by Michael Small, follows the misfortunes and mishaps of a big-time San Francisco con artist named Rodney.
(08/28/08 4:00am)
After years of toil, most graduate students come to terms with the fact that their dissertation will probably be relegated to a certain bookshelf in a certain library, its only hope a citation by some fellow graduate student in the years to come.
(04/17/08 4:00am)
Jackie Chan. Jet Li. One screen. One big let down. The fight scenes were great-like all the new martial-arts movies coming out these days-but even the spectacle of a white-clad Jet Li sparring with a Rastafarian Jackie Chan is not enough to salvage this storyline. But let's keep to what matters most-; the moves those guys were throwing were freakin' sweet! Seriously, watching the Praying Mantis style take on Tiger style should be a prerequisite of achieving full manhood. No life is complete without experiencing the awesomeness of Asian women battling each other and wishing you were the token white guy in the film.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
Perhaps one of the most-beloved and well-known musical comedies featuring an uber-sexualized-transvestite mad scientist-and very possibly the only one-The Rocky Horror Show has made its flamboyant arrival at Duke. Paying tribute to the very play that birthed the cult-classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Duke's Hoof 'n' Horn will perform the British stage musical tonight for the first time in campus history.
(11/29/07 5:00am)
The third biannual symposium hosted by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Neither Model Nor Muse highlights the striking and varied works of art created by women spanning the past three centuries.
(10/11/07 4:00am)
The "most trusted stranger in America," according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel, is a 42-year-old small business owner whose love for sharing other people's secrets has propelled him into the spotlight.
(10/04/07 4:00am)
What do a ghost, a doctor and an ancient Roman gay pimp have in common?
(09/20/07 4:00am)
Unfazed and unaffected by all of the recent debate surrounding the ever-so-nebulous Campus Culture Initiative, the Duke University Union has simply continued to do what it has always done-: initiate different ways of-and programs for-bringing Duke students together to have fun. The Campus Concert Series, which kicked off with student band Hopus last Saturday on the Bryan Center Plaza, is DUU's latest program.
(09/13/07 4:00am)
The 34th annual CenterFest Arts Festival is the largest and longest-running community arts celebration in North Carolina. This two-day long festival, held on Foster St. in the historic Central Park district of downtown Durham, falls this year on Sept. 15 and 16. It not only includes numerous artists and vendors, but also features performances ranging from Audioform, a jazz-funk group from Charlotte, to the Bouncing Bulldogs, a nationally-ranked rope skipping team.
(08/30/07 4:00am)
Billed as a quick-witted and raucous "romp" through all of Shakespeare's plays, the Duke Players, in partnership with the Department of Theater Studies, present the hilarious feature Meet the Bard, directed by senior Rob Baird.
