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Tucker Max dishes dirt on film debut, Duke

(09/24/09 8:00am)

Amidst the craziness and protests of the Raleigh, N.C. premiere of the Tucker Max-penned I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, recess’ Charlie McSpadden had the chance to exchange a few words with the blogger, author and general offender of common decency. But in the calmer aftermath, McSpadden spoke to Max about his new movie, his alma mater and persona, fratty Duke bro to former Duke bro.


Tucker's Inferno

(09/23/09 8:00am)

As another simmering summer day ends on North Carolina State’s campus, commotion broils around the Witherspoon Student center. A line of students—some swinging lanyards around their fingers, others high-fiving and reenacting stories from the night before—stroll past dozens of reporters and a gauntlet of anti-rape protesters to join the line for the evening’s entertainment: Tucker Max, the self-proclaimed womanizer and asshole and Duke Law graduate, and a screening of his new film I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. The protesters silently pass out flyers, smiling as they let their posters speak for themselves: Stop Supporting Rape Culture, Real Men Respect Women and This Is Not Entertainment.


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(09/10/09 10:04am)

A group of nine unique, handcrafted ragdolls equipped with bizarre mechanical parts are the last stand for humanity in a post-machine takeover world. Well, it looks like hallucinogenic drugs are still around.


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(09/10/09 8:00am)

A group of nine unique, handcrafted ragdolls equipped with bizarre mechanical parts are the last stand for humanity in a post-machine takeover world. Well, it looks like hallucinogenic drugs are still around.




This Sporting Life

(04/02/09 7:00am)

Each year of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a filmmaker curates a themed series. This year, Steve James, Academy Award-winning director of Hoop Dreams, is curating "This Sporting Life," a series of both sports-related documentary and feature films from the past five decades.





Shaheen revives '20s-'50s apex of Arabic music

(03/05/09 9:00am)

Simon Shaheen performed his first American concert to a tiny crowd of 30 people at New York City's Alternative Museum in 1980. Nearly three decades later, he was approached by Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center for Performing Arts to put together his own ensemble honoring Arabic music for the center's month-long "Arabesque" festival celebrating Arab culture.