Editor's Note, 9/19/13
(09/19/13 7:30am)
While reading on my flight from Rome to Beirut this past summer, I stumbled across an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote that I took out of context and have since held dear:
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While reading on my flight from Rome to Beirut this past summer, I stumbled across an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote that I took out of context and have since held dear:
Storefront churches have always been a part of Kristin Bedford’s landscape. On her way to the bus stop or the candy store, she’d see the D.C. church signs, handmade and painted onto windows. Like so many other visuals in her life, these have stayed with her, footnoting themselves into her mind; this Thursday, September 12, is the opening reception for “Be Still: A Storefront Church in Durham.”
Just like her music, Kathleen Hanna is radical, raucous and self-aware. The Julie Ruin’s banging sound and challenging lyrics are just as inseparable as Hanna’s person is from her new album, “Run Fast.”
Whether you’ve snagged a one-day pass, a three-day pass or no pass at all, this weekend belongs to Hopscotch Music Festival. This Friday, Three Lobed Recordings and WXDU will collaborate for the second time to host the third annual free day party at King’s Barcade in Raleigh.
Green lamps dangle from a ceiling framed by ornate carvings. The tirelessly detailed patterns, eclectic and timeless, continue along the walls, arched windows and crevices. The colors, some rustic and some pastel, rise in contrast to the floor with its shiny off-whiteness and large geometric designs. Oil lamps, water pipes and perfume bottles tastefully adorn tables and shelves. Golden Arabic calligraphy panels the walls above, and the photograph is taken in such a way that you feel as if, with a single step, you could enter into the "Syrian Room." Tim Street-Porter’s large and backlit photograph welcomes viewers into the Nasher’s newest exhibition opening Thursday, August 29: Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art.
Situated at the food truck section of the Saturday morning Durham Farmer’s Market is a foldout table with several pastries (the most popular products are vegan hand pies and chocolate babka) with their suggested prices.
Durham summers immediately conjure up thoughts of iced tea, humid sunshine and melodious blues. And now in its sixth season, Duke Performances brings together the best of these for its popular summer concert series, Music in the Gardens.
It’s been a big year for the Duke Jazz Ensemble. They collaborated with Duke Swing Dance Club and Jazz@ to present “A Night of Swing,” which was so successful that it seems bound to become a yearly event. This Friday the group will be joined by one of the world’s most acclaimed trumpet players, Jon Faddis, for the Alumni Weekend Concert on Apr. 12 in Page Auditorium.
A checkered floor with raised steps to an ornate throne, two curious mushroom poofs, a toy castle made of building blocks, an enormous gold-framed mirror and a chandelier—the Bryan Center’s Sheafer Lab Theater has become a surreal, Cocteau-inspired, pseudo-Renaissance wonderland. Throw in exceptional light and sound work, resplendent costumes designed from scratch and the ghost of Shakespeare, and you’ve got the backdrop to the upcoming production by Duke Theater Studies.
“Sometimes it hurts to bloom.” This is but one of a “million suggestions” that Suzan-Lori Parks has written down and will present to her audience at 6 p.m. tonight at the Duke Coffeehouse.
It turns out that quoting one of the exhibition’s own pieces is the best way to sum up “More Love,” the newest collection at the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill. Hanging on a wall by itself, Tracey Emin’s twelve-foot long and boldly-colored patchwork quilt proclaims: “It’s a feeling – that travels through my entire body / even my soul / every moment of my hole existence.” Entering the museum doors, visitors are on the receiving end of one of Julianne Swartz’s site-specific sound installations. It welcomes viewers by professing an endless array of “I love you”—some in frenzy, some in surrender, some in tears.
The “Duke Symphony Orchestra: Centennial Celebrations” performance will be held Mar. 6 in Page Auditorium. Along with works by Britten and Wagner, the orchestra will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Jingwei (Jenny) Li, the winner of this year’s DSO Concerto Competition. Recess writer Kathy Zhou spoke with the freshman about a student musician’s perspective on the upcoming performance and Duke’s music department.
Sophomore Alex Lark has the sort of quiet enthusiasm and understated passion that’s encouraging for an interviewer and lends credibility to what he says. When I asked him to tell me about himself, he answered both concretely and abstractly: “I’m from Melbourne, Australia, born and raised on a really beautiful coastal suburb there. I’ve always had a huge appreciation for moving bodies of water. I know I want to live by the ocean.”
On the surface, a group of kindergartners playing a noisy rendition of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” on their violins might just look like regular children causing a ruckus. But it’s actually a step forward in using art as a catalyst for social change in the Durham community. On Feb. 15 and 16, Duke and KidZNotes, a nonprofit organization for high-need children, will collaborate to host “Take a Stand,” a Regional Professional Development session on art, entrepreneurship, leadership and civic engagement.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are difficult to define and they like it that way. The group’s first ever single, “Ffluffy Ffriends,” was uploaded anonymously to Bandcamp and it remained anonymous until its frenzied fanbase tracked down the artists responsible. Their self-titled debut crosses many genres, all ribs on a backbone of psych-soul sound. Over a year later, they’ve now released II, an album that hybridizes with even more zeal than the first.
Local Natives are in the midst of a new maturity. After listening to the band’s sophomore album Hummingbird, their debut album sounds youthful, summery and brash. With time the band’s outlook has become darker, more uncertain and much more vulnerable, and a few tracks demonstrate how much more earnest Local Natives has become. “Three Months” feels like it was written in the aftermath of Gorilla Manor’s “Airplanes”: while both tracks convey desire for another person, “Airplanes” expresses that desire in a boisterous, almost childish fashion as it repeats the chorus, “I want you back.” “Three Months” maintains the same yearning, but takes a more grounded approach: its chorus repeats “I am ready for you now.” A similar switch happens in the tracks’ different instrumental impulses. Whereas “Airplanes” is a catchy march—with a positive tone that seems somewhat removed from desire—the backdrop of “Three Months” is devastatingly sincere. Taylor Rice sings grittily and with a falsetto reminiscent of Sharon Van Etten, who has used the producer who helped with Hummingbird. The subtle backdrop, combining piano and percussion, comes across as bruised but beautiful. It’s a feature that extends throughout most of Hummingbird, and Local Natives have developed instrumentation that more intimately connects with their lyrics.
One of the pioneering forces behind the chillwave movement, Chaz Bundick has set out to make his third record pop. Yes, literally, pop music. It’s a head-scratching move for someone who was at the forefront of an underground music movement. Pop has a kind of disdain attached to it, especially within the chillwave community. It’s synthesized music in the way that chillwave musicians are often trying to challenge and nuance.
Exhibit charts Duke's racial history
From Feb. 28 through Mar. 3, Duke will host Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing, the international conference, now in its fifth year, that examines the interrelationship of mind, body, spirit, community and, now, environment.
This January, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is conducting its fifth Winter Series. With three Thursday screenings to start off the new year, the 2013 Winter Series will present Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Searching for Sugar Man and How to Survive a Plague.