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Looking back, what were some of the highlights of the tour?
Durham's quirky Manbites Dog Theater is thriving in the recession. As strange as that may sound, the group has actually brought in more donations this year than last year.
This weekend, Page Auditorium will be swept into the apocalypse-through classical, hip-hop and klezmer music, that is.
Just in time for the inauguration, Branch Gallery opened two exhibits that force viewers to immerse themselves in social issues both past and present. Latino/a America: The New York & North Carolina Suites by Duke visual arts professor Pedro Lasch exemplifies the globalizing meaning of America. Complementing Lasch's work is the more abstract If Only To Wake My Neighbors, a showcase that is comprised of three experimental videos curated by Jerstin Crosby of local video-art series Acid Rain Production.
On track with recent efforts to digitize archives, the Lilly Library Film and Video Collection has made over 120 interviews conducted by television writer, producer and arts commentator Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel available on iTunesU and YouTube.
The New Kids on the Block
Durham artist Casey Cook's second installation at Branch Gallery, Boom Boom Crash, tries to provoke the edginess of a feminist manifesto, but the exhibit suffers from overextension and a muffled theme.
Though he may not be Harry Potter, Edward Cullen sure doesn't suck.
If you don't know what 4chan is, you should be ashamed. At this very moment, I hope you are looking up 4chan on Wikipedia and Googling why you've been living under a rock.
It's hard to know exactly when a band has "arrived." Some wait for major record deals. Others count MySpace hits. There's still no consensus, but one thing is clear: any time your music plays over Michael Cera inexplicably wooing pasty, misunderstood women, you've made it. Such is the case for Bishop Allen, a Brooklyn-based quartet with a knack for making infectiously introspective pop music. Lead singer and guitarist Justin Rice spoke with recess' Jessie Tang about the group's latest work, movie stardom and the message in their music.
With the impending opening of the Durham Performance Arts Center, the national acclaim received from the El Greco to Velázquez exhibit and the addition of new galleries such as Golden Belt, it is no overstatement to claim the Bull City art scene is booming.
After a three-year hiatus, soulful funk crooner Nikka Costa finds success with her fourth-and best-release yet, Pebble to a Pearl. Released on her own Go Funk Yourself Records, the record is saturated with songs of love, hope and authority. Though the tracks are weakened by their monotonous beats and styles, Costa's fourth effort nudges her out of the shadow of more popular contemporaries such as Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone.
For 25-year-old Brooklyn graphic novelist Dash Shaw, the world is beautifully absurd-at least when it comes to his comics.
Felt has sadly become synonymous with kitschy, elementary-level craft projects that conjure bad memories: sticky glue, dull scissors and an explosion of fuzz that was your supposed "art piece."
Have there been challenges with the "Split Scenes" in terms of pairing companies together with similar repertoire?
While students scramble to squeeze in last-minute papers, memorize a Rolodex-worth of biology note cards and work through old problem sets, breaks are in dire need, and staying on Duke campus just won't cut it. For those who need to take a breather or are fortunate enough to dodge the woes of having four finals crammed into Hell Week, look into the shows (Arcade Fire!) that are taking place in and around Durham. Fact: there is more to this city than Ninth Street and Shooters. For those of you sticking around for the summer, don't look so miserable just yet-. Below are highlights of some local events taking place in the next couple months.
On the evening of April 24, caricatures will come to life, figuratively speaking. The Art of Political Satire successfully weaves together the media of sketch comedy and political cartooning.
The 1994 South African election under universal suffrage marked the end of a long period of struggle against apartheid. It has only been 14 years since the country shifted to democracy, but already much has changed within the South African landscape-not just for the country itself, but also for the artists portraying it.
Dan Snaith is hard to sum up. A humble man of few words, Snaith has become an indie-electronic sensation under the stage name Caribou (originally Manitoba). His work never seems to end: Snaith just released his seventh album, Andorra, last September and has been has been performing almost daily since. Somewhere in between producing and performing, he also found time to get a Ph. D. in mathematics. In a recent interview with recess' Jessie Tang, Snaith discusses his latest album, how he got into electronic music and why he loves being a nerd.
Stacy-Lynn Waddell's new exhibit, From That Point On, tackles one of the hardest concepts in artistic representation: capturing the essence of someone's life. And this someone is not just any commoner off the street-the muse at the heart of her works happens to be prominent Civil Rights historian John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of history.