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(09/01/00 4:00am)
For the last several years, Abercrombie & Fitch has tried to make life a little easier for preppy pretty boy-and-girl hopefuls by marketing rugged "lifestyle" clothing that's sure to turn heads. But if you think it's hard to pull off that sexy A&F look when you're strutting down the quad, you can only begin to imagine what it takes for Abercrombie to make you one of their own "brand representatives." Recess recently got our hands on a top-secret "look book" guide for A&F employees. Let's just say it takes more to get on with A&F than it does to be on a CBS series. With that thought in mind and manual in hand, Recess took a look at how the Survivor cast would stack up in Fitchland.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
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(07/19/00 4:00am)
The MP3 boom isn't new. Thanks to our ultra-fast network connections, we've been enjoying MP3s at Duke for over three years. Nowadays, many of us don't even bother to bring stereos, since most of our music is on computers anyway. We're on the right side of the much-lamented "digital divide." We are not workaday America-we're on the cutting edge. So if corporations-especially media corporations-want to understand the consumers of the future, they'd better start trying to understand us.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
It's a new millennium, and we're a long way from 1971-or are we? This summer, Paramount Studios managed to resurrect yet another relic of the era of skyrocketing gas prices and a scandal-plagued presidency. Shaft, like Santana, is still trying to be the man in 2000. But the question, has he gotten better with age? Recess sees how the two Shafts stack up.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
Back in the days when "recess" meant a 30-minute play break and "creative writing" meant a story about your weekend, it seemed as if Cats was the only musical on the planet. Those black t-shirts with the cat-eyes and the scrawled logo were as popular as Homey the Clown and Barbie dolls. If you didn't have a Cats t-shirt, you hadn't been to Broadway, simple as that.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
We managed to make a pretty cool magazine last year with two editors-in-chief. Nothing was more fun for me than watching the quirky creative visions of editors Tim Millington and Kevin Pride collide in a magazine that was consistently great looking, readable and-usually-funny.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
I just bought a record player.
(07/12/00 4:00am)
Short-sighted pundits have called Shaquille O'Neal the greatest basketball player of all time, but it's the big-boned baller's activities off the court that really set him apart. Most current and former big-ego basketball stars have extracurricular projects, from endorsing shoes to running mediocre restaurants in Chapel Hill. But the oafish offensive machine has surpassed them all, with entertainment projects ranging from video games (Shaq-Fu) to albums (three, plus a greatest hits) to movies.
(07/12/00 4:00am)
North Carolina may be a long way from New York, but Sonic Youth will make it seem like you're in the heart of the Village this Saturday night.
(06/01/00 4:00am)
While the Internet is ablaze with the war over Napster and MP3s, a business offering everyone's favorite legal method for obtaining cheap music-used CDs-is quietly making its mark. Using a business model that's part eBay, part Amazon, Half.com hooks up buyers and sellers of used CDs (and a smaller selection of books, video games and movies) while eliminating many of the person-to-person hassles that can make auctions a risky proposition. And unlike an auction site, Half.com virtually guarantees that your purchase will be a steal-everything is sold for a maximum of half of list price.
(06/01/00 4:00am)
Attention performers: Recess can make or break you. It took us just one story to end Kathie Lee Gifford's talk-show career, and one cover photo to propel Genghis Blues to Oscar contention. Despite our relentless disdain, though, Billy Corgan has proven more resilient-he resisted our barbs for three months before running up the white flag. According to a recent Corgan interview, The Smashing Pumpkins will cease to be at the end of this year. Here's what the chrome-domed crooner had to say in a letter obtained in dubious circumstances by Jonas Blank:
(05/25/00 4:00am)
Of the bands spawned during the fallow early '90s, Pearl Jam's career has perhaps been the most interesting. Though usually lumped with the "grunge" elite alongside Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam's aesthetic never really meshed with their Seattle counterparts. The band may have tried to cop some of punk's tempo or attitude, but it never proved to be their schtick. At their most rocking, Pearl Jam sounds like a cross between the Who and MC5; at their most rootsy, they sound like the Who and Neil Young.
(04/21/00 4:00am)
overing music, especially in two or three articles a week, is tough. While the pop charts proved consistent (and dull) this year, the universe of modern sound is as wide as ever, from rock to hip-hop to jazz to shit that doesn't even have a name yet, on both the local and national level. We tried to give you as wide a variety of coverage-from Isotope 217 to N Sync-as we could this year. We hope we gave you a feel for what went down, and that you'll stick with us next year, too. -By Jonas Blank, Music Editor
(04/14/00 4:00am)
'm not sure there needs to be a Built To Spill live album.
(03/31/00 5:00am)
From Elton John and k.d. lang to Melissa Etheridge and George Michael, successful gay and lesbian artists have become huge names in the music industry. Increasing openness of sexual orientation, especially in entertainment, has been one of the great success stories of the '90s. Gay-themed films like Philadelphia and drama such as the musical Rent garnered national audiences and raised acceptance and awareness to new heights. Musicians like Michael Stipe and Kurt Cobain flaunted their ambiguities, while even hard-core straight guys felt comfortable kissing onstage. This decade begins with a very, very different attitude than the previous one, and the industry's challenge is to keep the progress going.
(03/24/00 5:00am)
Like one of his patented slam-dunks, you can be sure that Michael Jordan's new 23 restaurant in Chapel Hill has plenty of style. Unlike His Airness, though, the place is totally lacking in consistency.
(03/10/00 5:00am)
Whatever happened to the mid-'90s? Think back: it's 1995. Kurt Cobain is dead, Hanson is unheard of, and Britney Spears is still in middle school. As Soundgarden and Pearl Jam slip off the charts, latecomers are thriving. Oasis rule the UK, sitting atop several massive singles and spouting rhetoric about being the next Beatles. Smashing Pumpkins, a band that began early in the decade, is blowing up, fresh off the 1994 Lollapalooza tour and readying the release of a dizzying double-album for 1996. By the time it drops, lead singer/mastermind Billy Corgan is talking seriously about the Pumpkins becoming "the biggest rock band in the world," and he has a fairly legitimate claim to it. The band's 1996 tour run is huge, taking them on multi-night trips to every conceivable global locale. Singles like "Zero" and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" rule rock radio, while "1979" proves a massive crossover smash.
(03/03/00 5:00am)
o you know what it's like to be in love? Love can be a mystical concoction, a foamy, slurred mass of devotion and conflict. It is one of art's most popular topics for a reason: it's deft and inscrutable, elusive and gratifying. And it always, always gets people excited.
(02/25/00 5:00am)
So the Y2K Grammys have come and gone, and all the kudos went to a '70s retread playing with a bunch of third-rate '90s hacks and a slew of glitzy prefab pop songsters. This year's ceremony was all about echoes; in addition to Santana's belated success, Sheryl Crow and Kravitz snagged wins for cover songs and Black Sabbath(??!!) body-slammed Rob Zombie and Nine Inch Nails for Best Metal Performance. And we won't even talk about Cher and Sting.
(02/18/00 5:00am)
Surprise, kids: The Smashing Pumpkins are coming to town, and you heard it here first.
