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On Wednesday, Sept. 13, the Department of Romance Studies at Duke hosted “On Literature and Peripheries: A Conversation with Nicolas Mathieu” in the Rubenstein Library’s Carpenter Board Room.
Summer may be receding, but the eclectic Hopscotch Music Festival promises to bring back the heat to the Triangle this week from Sept. 7–9. Over 120 artists and groups will perform at Hopscotch, with headliners including Pavement, Japanese Breakfast, Denzel Curry, Alvvays, Margo Price, King Krule, Sunny Day Real Estate and Dinosaur Jr.
An unabashed mid-century modern style at The Durham hotel immediately transports guests back to some six decades ago. The Durham opened in 2015, yet its architecture traces back to 1968, when it housed the Home Savings Bank. The gold and white stripes of the building facade have remained through the years, exuding a timelessness that distinguishes it from the red bricks typical of downtown Durham. To this day, The Durham is the only independently owned and locally operated hotel in downtown Durham.
Brightleaf mainstay Rose’s Noodles, Dumplings & Sweets participated this week in Triangle Restaurant Week, the Triangle's largest culinary event of the summer, for the first time in its ten years of business.
From tote bag lines in the morning to Chapel climbs at noon, here are some of the scenes across campus from Duke’s last day of classes.
Built on the site of the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum stands at the heart of Greensboro, N.C. as a testimony to the arduous fight for civil rights. It shows a lengthy history of how a seed of bravery spurred a nationwide movement and made breakthroughs in the progress of democracy that continues to this day.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program centers on increasing representation from minority groups in arts, humanities and social science faculty of higher education institutions through “undergraduate research funding, mentorship, peer support and loan repayment for Ph.D. programs.” The program seeks applications from intellectually-engaged juniors and seniors pursuing research in one of the Mellon Mays-eligible fields.
In the Nasher Museum of Art’s newly opened “Spirit in the Land” exhibition, artworks by 30 artists question the belief that humanity and nature are distinct entities. The exhibition invites viewers to see nature encapsulating and nurturing humanity. Through a variety of mediums, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, installation and film, it creates a dialogue between cultural practices and traditions and their roots in nature.
Being funny in a second language is hard. That was one of the first facts I realized after coming to Duke as an international student. As someone who values a sense of humor and views laughter shared with friends as highlights in my daily life, I was at a loss.
For Triangle Restaurant Week, an annual event that ran this year from Jan. 23-29 celebrating restaurants throughout the Triangle area with special multi-course menus, two of our Recess writers visited a Chapel Hill mainstay: Kipos Greek Taverna.
Only a 20-minute walk away from the hustle and bustle of the Bryan Center Plaza is Pure Vegan Cafe, where guests can find a robust vegan menu without the expense of variety or flavor. This is Pure Vegan Cafe’s (PVC) first year participating in Triangle Restaurant Week (TRW), which took place from Jan. 23 - 29, 2023. TRW is an annual week-long celebration of culinary experience in the Triangle area. Participating restaurants offer two to three-course dinners and/or lunches. For TRW, PVC offered a $20 lunch or dinner, both with the choice of one burger or sandwich plus one side and one smoothie, juice or dessert. Just in the category of burger and sandwich, there were 11 different options.
Carrboro, just a stone’s throw from Durham and one of the best small towns in the US, is hosting the 17th annual Carrboro Film Fest Nov. 18 to Nov. 20 at The ArtsCenter.
“The Ethics of Now”, a long-running program presented by Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, brings speakers from outside the university into conversations with Duke historian and Professor Adriane Lentz-Smith. In each conversation, the speakers discuss topics that touch upon ethical challenges and are of interest to both the Duke and the Durham community. Lentz-Smith has been hosting these conversations for around four years, reflecting on the fact that the name “The Ethics of Now” points to the nature of these conversations — they are essentially concerned with how we live our lives in the contemporary world. Such conversations, Lentz-Smith said, also help give Duke students an idea of how to engage in thoughtful conversations beyond the classroom. Guest speakers of past “Ethics of Now” events include the likes of Min Jin Lee, the author of novel “Pachinko,” and Michael Schur, Emmy Award-winning creator of television show “The Good Place.”
The most popular drinks across regions and time share a common feature: they are all astringent. That is, may it be tea, coffee or beer, they are not the most palate-pleasing beverages at first taste. They are either bitter or acidic with an unsmooth aftertaste on the tongue. It is precisely due to their lingering smoothness why people find those drinks all the more flavorful and intriguing the more they consume.
The changing foliage seems eager to announce that fall is once again in full swing in the Triangle. Of course, colorful leaves are not the only treasure that this season in North Carolina has to offer. Fall is a time for fruition after labor and sharing the joy of harvest with family, friends and other kindred spirits. On that note, what beats visiting a farmers’ market with local fall produce as a way of immersing yourself in the beauty of this season?
“Cyberspace was born where the laurel grows lush and verdant; where the dogwoods blossom and the whippoorwills cry in the wind-whipped limbs of the tulip trees.”
Krill Restaurant takes its name from a small sea crustacean that lies near the bottom of the food chain, but is a main source of nutrition for much larger creatures such as the baleen whale. The name represents the restaurant’s wish to nourish the surrounding community through fresh and healthy plates. Opened in late July this year, this modestly-sized restaurant is tucked slightly away from the busiest section of downtown Durham, right next to event venue The Fruit. It is the newest addition to the Giorgios Hospitality Group, the restaurant group that owns, among others, Parizade, Nasher Museum Cafe and Vin Rouge.
Some things arrive late, but just at the right time. The Nasher Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948 - 1960,” opened on August 25 after a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, with a current closing date in January 2023, the exhibition makes a celebratory nod to Lichtenstein’s influence on modern art on the cusp of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. As a fitting opening to the long-anticipated showing, the Nasher held its first media preview since the onset of the pandemic on August 24. It was led by Marshall E. Price, Ph. D., Chief Curator and the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and saw attendance of over twenty representatives from art and media institutions around the country.
“Severance” is not the first television series that explores the dark ambitions of giant corporations, but its one-of-a-kind conception of the neurosurgical procedure, “Severance,” that splits an employee’s memory into two makes it the most refreshing one in the past few years. It currently boasts a 8.7 out of 10 rating on IMDB and was renewed for a second season before the first season even ended. Although it has been on the Apple TV+ streaming platform for over five months now, personally, it has not enjoyed the recognition it deserves. With the second season projected to release early to mid-next year, now is the best time to catch up on its first season and let its spine-chilling storyline cool you down for the summer.
(Trigger warning: this article discusses the representation of depression in photography and descriptions of a photograph that might cause unease.)
