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Recess editors Kirby Wilson and Tim Campbell saw comedian Marc Maron perform at The Carolina Theatre Feb. 17. In an email exchange, Tim and Kirby discussed all things funny, dramatic and sentimental from Maron's performance:
For this week’s editor’s note I, Recess’s human hot takes torch, am going to lay down a series of truths. If you don’t agree with me when it comes to these four points, you’re an enemy of freedom and I will call the police on you and your loved ones.
Before Timothy Tyson got the phone call, he did not want to write a book about Emmett Till.
Cancel the Rose Parade. I know “La La Land” has earned the undying praise of critics, the Academy and lovers of symmetrical faces everywhere, but all that is over now. There’s a new sheriff in Tinseltown, and his name is TWMUWTTP (The White Male Undergrad Writing This Think Piece).
Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. candidate in the Nicholas School of the Environment, wants you to know that, under the painful exterior of cyclical poverty, there is beauty. There is strength. There is history.
Imagine yourself looking upon a vast plain. Buffalo graze among the company of cattle egret. You can hear the rattling of insects in the grass as the sun beats down, iridescent and uncompromising. The animals graze apathetic of your presence, too preoccupied with the great hedge maze of genetics to catch a whiff of your sunscreen. One buffalo nuzzles her young, and you begin to ponder the animal’s inscrutable, familiar behavior.
Most of my friends make fun of me, but I don’t care. My Green Day fan bona fides are without equal:
All you need is happy thoughts. Don’t forget the happy thoughts.
As I pulled into one of West Union’s not-high-enough, not-low-enough high tables Sunday night, there was a hitch in my pre-meal routine. Don’t worry, I still gazed at the plate half covered in grease from my gratuitously cheesy pizza. I still snorted at the week-old episode of "Comedy Bang Bang" piping into my earholes. And I definitely didn’t forget to whisper my customary prayer to David Ortiz.
Comedian Hannibal Buress—who comes to Raleigh this Friday to perform his new act “The Hannibal Montanabal Experience”—has run the gamut of the comedic experience. Only 33, he’s acted in movies written for acclaimed sitcoms and sketch shows, dazzled on TV in supporting roles and has hosted his own shows and even lent his voice and likeness to popular video games.
You probably haven’t heard this from an earnest male college student, so please allow me to fill you in: Kanye Omari West is a musical genius. His albums? Straight fire, bro. He’s a visionary. He’s changed the game. Also, you should watch “Breaking Bad.”
When comedian Nikki Glaser takes the stage Friday evening in Page auditorium, she’ll probably make some fairly outrageous quips. She may riff about millennial intimacy, or muse over the location and quantity of male reproductive material or joke about the idiocy of campus hookup culture.
Second-year civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. student Jon Holt released "South," his first solo EP, on Aug. 26. A classically-trained drummer, Holt, 26, graduated from UMass-Amherst and spent two years in New Orleans teaching high school science for Teach for America before arriving at Duke. We sat down at Twinnie’s to talk about his musical influences, finding time for passions in the chaos of Duke and YouTube stardom. The following conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
“Green Party in the HOOOOUUUUUUSSSSSEEEEE!!”
59 million people can’t be wrong: it’s a delightful YouTube video. The unremittingly charming Jimmy Fallon invited pop star Ariana Grande to "The Tonight Show" to play a whimsical game of “Wheel of Musical Impressions.” The Floridian pop starlet is game. She performs a raspy, spot-on Britney Spears impression. She wails as Christina Aguilera, even riffing for about thirty seconds longer than anyone wanted, just as is Aguilera’s wont. She finishes the silliness with a scarily accurate impersonation of Celine Dion, complete with cheesy crowd goading.
When I purchased my Beyoncé tickets in January, this was not the type of story I was expecting to write. When one thinks Beyoncé concert, one doesn’t think “gut-wrenching” or “monsoon-induced hypothermia” or “hospitalization.” But as I sprawled across my girlfriend’s bathroom floor, clutching her vomit-ravaged toilet, I was hardly reflecting on Queen Bey’s choreography. In fact, I was pretty sure I was going to die.
Local artist Skylar Gudasz released her first full-length studio album, "Oleander," at Cat's Cradle last Friday. As a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill alum now living in Durham, Gudasz has hometown roots. She is best known for her smoky voice and distinctive sound. The Chronicle's Kirby Wilson spoke with Gudasz on the phone about her first album, the meaning behind her lyrics, and what it's like being a local artist.
It’s [insert late winter month], and you know what that means. That’s right, America’s scowliest, coldest, power hungriest family has returned. Put on a steaming pot of political opponents’ blood and keep the murders as quiet as possible. House of Cards season four is on the internets! Let’s get bingeing!
Five Duke professors held a panel Wednesday to discuss the Islamic State group in a way often rare in today’s contentious political climate—constructively.
Duke’s change to an Internet streaming service for campus televisions has been met with criticism from many students.
