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Entering The Carrack last week, it would have been difficult for even the most experienced of gallery-goers to withhold amazement.
Recess section editors Jessica Williams and Christy Kuesel embarked on a food-filled journey throughout the Raleigh-Durham area for Triangle Restaurant Week.
As a student studying abroad, I'm probably expected to write about what an awesome semester I'm having. A beautiful European city, a plethora of museums to visit, endless events to attend, embarrassing yet endearing mistakes with the language, a great homestay family—all would be more than suitable topics for this staff note. But I'll spare you the fluffy descriptions of cobblestone streets and dramatic stories of the cultural lessons I've learned. It's not just the culture that's been on my mind. Since I've been in Berlin, I can't stop thinking about time.
DukeEngage Ahmedabad almost didn’t happen. With unexpected visa complications delaying travel to India, by mid-June it looked like the program would end before its first year could even begin. With a stroke of luck at just the right moment, though, the visas were approved and seven DukeEngage students were set to leave the country for India the next day.
As students celebrate their freedom from assignments and exams over the summer break, another celebration will soon grace Duke’s campus: The American Dance Festival (ADF) commemorates its 40th season in Durham this summer with six and a half weeks packed with performances.
The "Duke bubble" is definitely real. Whether or not we undergrads like to admit it, we are part of our own little world; with food points, gyms, arts events, gardens and libraries all within walking distance, it would be relatively easy to get through an entire school year without ever stepping off campus and into Durham. And many of us don’t…aside from journeys to Shooters or possibly a grocery run to Harris Teeter or a date on Ninth Street. What many of us don’t realize, though, is that the Duke bubble doesn’t even encompass all of Duke.
It all started when my British boyfriend called me "uncultured swine" for eating my chocolate chip pancakes wrong at Pitchforks. Aside from cutting too many chocolate chips into one bite, I didn’t realize that there was a wrong way to eat pancakes,and I certainly didn’t care much to learn the right way after a long night of essay writing. Utilizing the practical American single-hand method, I used my fork to both cut and pick up the pancake bites. Why dirty a knife if the pancakes were soft enough to just cut with a fork? He didn’t see it the same way, though. Each turn of my fork dividing the pancake was a personal affront to generations of his tea-drinking kind. What was the point of knives at all if people weren’t to use them?
The United States National Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visited Duke's Rubenstein Library Nov. 17 to read selections from his poetry and other works in both Spanish and English. Herrera is the first Mexican-American and Latino to be named poet laureate. The Chronicle sat down with Herrera to discuss his writing process, his activism and the subtle beauties of life. The following interview has been edited for clarity.
This past week, Hoof ‘n’ Horn began its fall show in Shaefer Theater—kicking off the group’s 80th anniversary season. The oldest student-run musical theater organization in the South, Hoof ‘n’ Horn decided to see this accomplishment as a motive to strive to new heights in this season’s first show, "Sweeney Todd.”
I watch movies more than I probably should. Although I can’t say exactly when I fell in love with film, movies have been a part of my life as long as I can remember—whether it was watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas or being forced to see “To Kill a Mockingbird” by my grandmother, my childhood was dotted with films I would love more and more as I got older. In high school, I’d find myself pretending that I could multitask well enough to watch “Fargo” and do Calculus homework at the same time (which I couldn’t)—and my preferred social activity was watching movies with friends.
With 140 visual artists of all media, CenterFest provided Durhamites with a diverse view of art in N.C. on Sept. 17-18. Here are some of the highlights of this year’s artists:
While West Union looks sleek and fancy, much of the food made there is aesthetic as well. But does West Union food taste as good as it looks? We’ve photographed one of the best-looking dishes at each venue, and exposed whether or not they’re too good to be true.
From learning British slang to acclimating to Oxford’s famed tutorial system, students attending Duke in Oxford this summer have been thrown into a culture far different from that in Bull City. Forty-five are at Oxford’s New College (which is actually quite old—it was founded in 1379) studying humanities subjects including Victorian Literature and Modern British History. Here’s what a day might look like for them:
In one of the most turbulent, amusing, and even sassy American presidential elections of all time, it’s not surprising that social media has exploded with political activity—from lighthearted jokes to angry tirades on both sides. In the world of political posts, memes have stolen the show. Shared by anyone from the politically obnoxious but mercurial high school classmate you keep forgetting to unfriend or the older family member who posts way too much, political memes have clogged Facebook and other social media for months, and will probably continue to do so even when the election is actually over. But are political memes worth reading and posting? Here are our pros and cons of political memes:
With the end of the academic year just around the corner, Recess was feeling a little nostalgic and decided to look back at some of the little known facts from our childhood TV shows.
For students, it’s often easy to take what professors say as absolute truth—but even they can’t know everything, especially when it comes to female-driven philosophy.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will take place this weekend, from April 7 to 10. In its nineteenth year of bringing Durham nonfiction cinema, this year’s festival will include over 100 films from around the world.
Full of wonders like sea monsters, labyrinths, minotaurs and puppets, The Duke Players’ upcoming spring show will mirror the real world with fantasy. Written and co-directed by senior Faye Goodwin, “The Braveness of Jane” explores mental illness through the original lens of a heroic quest.
