Editor's Note
(10/14/10 9:00am)
We didn’t give Joe College Day much coverage this year. And there’s a reason for that.
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We didn’t give Joe College Day much coverage this year. And there’s a reason for that.
Initially, 3D wasn’t part of the plan. A third movie wasn’t part of the plan. Most of the jokes weren’t part of the plan.
How funny are dildos?
For some reason, it caught on, was accepted much earlier in books and movies. Violence. Vulgarity. Not so much sex, because as everyone knows, sex is drugs is rock and roll.
In a Duke Performances season devoted to music that characterizes “A Nation Made New,” no act might fit this epithet better than Dirty Projectors.
Padgett Powell, Ron Rash, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower. The table of contents reads like some idealized issue of The Southern Review—and there are 21 more names just like that.
Here’s an example of a controlling market share: When Charlie Poole’s recording of “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” was released in 1925, it sold 100,000 copies. At the time, there were only 600,000 purchased phonographs in the South.
Duke University Union held its first general body meeting of the year last night.
Sitting in a white wicker chair on the front porch of the Bridges House, home to Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, CDS Director Tom Rankin knows that the new program he helped pioneer is novel. And he says so: it’s so novel, some people might call it a little crazy.
The Arts and Sciences Council discussed the financial outlook for the year at its first meeting of the semester.
I’m fascinated by Justin Bieber.
Get Rosecrans Baldwin some Duke basketball tickets.
Rep. David Price, D-N.C. and a former political science and public policy professor, spoke to a small crowd Tuesday evening in the West Union Building, hoping to inspire students to become more involved in politics. The event, which was sponsored by Duke Democrats and Duke Political Union, also included an open discussion forum, in which audience members posed questions about Price’s opinions on current issues in politics. Price is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represents North Carolina’s fourth congressional district, which includes all of Durham and Chapel Hill, as well as portions of Raleigh and Cary.
Every other week, when Brooke’s not holding it down, I’ll be writing an Editor’s Note. I’ll try and use my space to write about things that I think are good. Now, enough about that.
What happens when the curatorial drive of the local alt-weekly grows beyond its physical pages? The nation’s largest music festival, for one, South by Southwest, is run by the Austin Chronicle; the Village Voice’s Siren Festival is a New York City mainstay; and now, Raleigh has Hopscotch, brainchild of the Triangle’s Independent Weekly.
In honor of Durham-based Churchkey Records’ third birthday, Recess’ Kevin Lincoln interviewed Spider Bags frontman Dan McGee. Spider Bags is set to release a single, “(Let’s) Take It Easy Tonite,” on Churchkey this fall.
Following a tumultuous 2009-10 season, head coach John Kerr has assembled a talented, but very young, Blue Devil team.
Drake’s debut LP Thank Me Later—delayed more than once and lustfully hyped—sounds so effortful that you half-expect your iPod to be sweating when “Thank Me Now” drones to a close.
What do you know about the arts at Duke?
This summer marks the third iteration of Duke Performances’ now annual Music in the Gardens series, a string of concerts in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens that allow showgoers the opportunity to come sprawl out on a blanket and enjoy live music in the great outdoors. Carrboro’s Max Indian will be performing July 21, and Recess’ Kevin Lincoln spoke with the band’s Carter Gaj about the Carrboro scene, identity crises and getting snowed in at the Coffeehouse.