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(04/10/08 4:00am)
You can expect recent photojournalism focusing on places of conflict to be abruptly gory and viscerally violent with its unflinching portrayal of blood and destruction-but not usually calmingly serene. Ami Vitale's photos break this visual precedent. On display now at Durham's Through This Lens gallery, the exhibit Full of Grace features Vitale's work. Her art depicts everyday life under difficult circumstances, emphasizing the beauty of locales such as Kashmir and Africa, places that are typically presented to Western audiences only in terms of their danger and deterioration.
(04/03/08 4:00am)
Those who are eagerly awaiting the play Spring Awakening due to the hype surrounding the musical of the same name will be in for an unanticipated, though not unwelcome, surprise. Gone are the sleek, former-pop-musician-composed songs and the single dominant love story.
(03/27/08 4:00am)
This weekend, the coordinated hop becomes as hip as the perpetually fashionable model walk, thanks to the return of two annual events. The main attractions of the Black Student Alliance's admitted student recruitment weekend, the National Pan-hellenic Council's step show and the BSA fashion show, are scheduled to captivate audiences this Friday at 5:15 p.m. on the chapel steps and this Saturday at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium, respectively.
(03/06/08 5:00am)
In the midst of the afternoon sun-soaked gallery, an artwork entitled "Veronica's Desire" depicts an undeniably phallic-shaped purple flower that fills the frame of the image, curving at a sensuous angle and urging viewers to make a scintillating connection with the title. On the facing wall, a piece called "Red Passion Flower" features a close-up shot of an exotic, vibrant red flower that stretches across the black background while its two-dimensional tendrils seem to palpably spiral into the viewer's space.
(02/28/08 5:00am)
"Everybody's been behaving kind of strange around me. They seem to be up to something.... I really don't know what's going on. That's what she said," said President Brodhead.
(02/14/08 5:00am)
In order to see first-hand pop culture's fixation with young people getting married, you only need to watch MTV's show Engaged and Underage. The series chronicles couples between the ages of 18 and 22 as they plan to walk down the aisle, often flouting convention in typical melodramatic style by doing things like converting the wedding reception into a punk rock dance party. However, finding true love at college isn't just fodder for daytime TV-for some Duke undergraduate couples, engaged life coincides with dorm life.
(02/07/08 5:00am)
The Nasher Museum's new exhibition entitled Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool certainly lives up to its name. If the paintings do not speak for themselves, the impressive media coverage certainly does. The exhibit, the first ever career retrospective of Hendricks' paintings, was featured in January Vogue's "25 Most Talked About" list-designating the work as immediately culturally important.
(01/31/08 5:00am)
When artists as varied as Johnny Cash and Akon choose the same topic to sing about, you know it must be of some cultural importance. In this case, it is prison life that commands public fascination.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Students who normally walk past the Bryan Center's Brown Gallery without so much as a glance in, may now be enticed to turn off their iPods and enter. Characterized by vibrant color and enigmatic layered imagery, artist David Wilson's digital collages and assemblages are now on display in the new exhibition, Heavy Burden: Digital Collage Examination of African-American Forced Labor.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
When asked if his artwork is similar to that of his son's, artist Murry Handler answers succinctly: "I don't think that there's any similarity."
(12/06/07 5:00am)
People have always been fascinated by artists-those rare, creative types who are known for cutting off various body parts, literally throwing paint around and hanging out with rock stars in exclusive places with enigmatic names such as "The Factory." Now everyone can get a glimpse of what artists do on a day-to-day basis, thanks to the 15th annual Chatham Studio Tour.
(11/15/07 5:00am)
Editorial cartoonist Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher proves generations of preschool teachers wrong by creating cutting political cartoons that illustrate how words (and in this case drawings, too) can be far more painful than sticks or stones-at least as far as the ego is concerned.
(11/08/07 5:00am)
Any undergraduate who has ever contemplated pursuing a well-paying career has been subjected to countless examples of why networking is essential to his or her ultimate job-induced happiness. Evidently it's true-just look at Duke alum Bret Runestad.
(11/01/07 4:00am)
The Carolina Theatre's upcoming comedy show Queer Queens of Qomedy offers a rare opportunity to gaze upon lesbian comedic royalty. The performance showcases four lauded comedians, combining all of the flash connoted by the title with solid comedy chops.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
Tell anyone that you're going to see a play called Hello Penis: a Man-ifesto and he or she would likely assume that you are seeing either a misogynistic satire or some obscure revival of penis puppetry. In reality, the play, showing Thursday through Saturday at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, offers a thought-provoking discussion of gender roles and male intimacy, all constructed around the central question of "What does it mean to be a man?"
(10/18/07 4:00am)
Normally, seven and a half cents isn't worth very much. Any Duke student could find at least as much by digging through the cushions of the questionably clean chairs in the Bryan Center. But in Hoof'n'Horn's latest musical, The Pajama Game, the entire story is determined by such a nominal sum. The show develops around the turmoil that overtakes the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory when the employees demand a raise of seven and a half cents an hour. From this not-typically-enthralling framework, Hoof'n'Horn manages to construct a performance that is both compelling and laugh-out-loud funny.
(10/04/07 7:00am)
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it became apparent that Grey's Anatomy's downward spiral was permanent. Perhaps it was the episode when the main character, Meredith, died-only to awake from the dead after having spent an entire episode catching up with dead patients from previous seasons, all in a purgatory-like setting straight out of a bad sci-fi show. Or maybe it was that time when an episode of Grey's turned into a two-hour promotion for the network's new Grey's spin-off, Private Practice, resulting in a disappointing waste of a Thursday night. Either way, the Season 4 premiere did little to save the show from seemingly imminent self-destruction.
The Season 3 finale left the show so demolished that it seemed like it couldn't go anywhere but up-Cristina didn't get married, Burke left, Meredith and Dr. McDreamy broke up and George failed his intern exam. Yet what should have been an episode that rebuilt the show to its former glory merely furthered the deterioration. True, there were a couple of mildly clever scenes, but not enough to make up for the rest of the show's content-Izzy resuscitates a dying deer, we meet Meredith's socially awkward half-sister, Alex extracts a bag of change from his patient's stomach and then uses it as a prop in a disastrously unintelligent metaphor about how life is ever-changing. On top of that, Meredith is yet again forced to decide between two people who are both calling her name from opposite sides of the room. The result is that the premiere promises a season where the main entertainment will be to watch how the show attempts to cure itself of what appears to be a terminal illness.
(09/20/07 4:00am)
Rogue Wave returns in all its jangly, indie-pop glory with Asleep at Heaven's Gate, its third full-length album. While Rogue Wave's last album, Descended Like Vultures, acquired a fair amount of attention with its constant airplay on the third season of the O.C,, the band has spent the last two years as quiet as the show's dead main character.
(09/20/07 4:00am)
Where can you find LL Cool J, sperm cells, Titian and bling all in one place? No, not at some fetishistic porn site, but in the work of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley.
(09/13/07 4:00am)
Most men in their late sixties are busy reveling in their retirement, spending their days playing golf or searching for the perfect assisted living community which their grown children will force them into when they begin having chronic health problems a few years down the road.
