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(04/14/05 4:00am)
Finn Cohen just wants to complete his degree in music. However, for this 28-year-old Duke sophomore, finishing is much harder than it may seem. Cohen, the guitarist and lead singer of the Triangle-based budding rock outfit The Nein, began the life of a musician directly after high school and hasn’t looked back since. Cohen has had a colorful academic career, attending UNC, Durham Tech and currently Duke.
(04/05/05 4:00am)
It’s not like I was trying to be nosy. I was just minding my own business, waiting for the Science Drive bus (which is perpetually late), thinking about the fact that I hadn’t done my homework for my upcoming classes. I was miserable. It was a hot day, and I hate the heat. I hate humidity more. I’m from northern California, the part that’s never too hot and never too cool. Very little humidity. Right as I began to wonder why I came to Duke in the first place, two gangly little guys came and stood next to me, talking in that sort of hushed whisper that’s actually really loud and everyone can hear.
(03/31/05 5:00am)
There's a new strain of evil in the independent music scene comprised of bands like Hot Hot Heat who never work to get popular. These bands just don't possess the talent to be good enough on their own, so they automatically sell out.
(03/24/05 5:00am)
Last November, the winner of the Duke/UNC Battle of the Bands was announced. Duke emerged triumphant as The Pulsar Triyo walked away with the prize package, which included $750 in winnings and a gig at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh. Now, four months after the battle, The Pulsar Triyo is showing no signs of slowing down.
(02/24/05 5:00am)
They function on what they call a “Do-It-Yourself Ethic:” no corporate nonsense, no superficiality, just pure, stripped-down rock ’n’ roll. They cite George Bush and Karl Marx as musical influences. In concert, they try not to play on stage, but rather move to the ground in hopes that everyone, band and audience alike, can together be absorbed by the music. If one were to evaluate the evolution of modern rock music, Durham-based rock duo Des Ark is probably about the closest a band is to existing purely for the sake of the music itself.
(02/21/05 5:00am)
Many Duke students pride themselves on being open-minded and less prejudiced than our peers. However, it may be the case that some prejudices are simply not fashionable or not acceptable any longer and we have to find new ones.
(02/17/05 5:00am)
Le Tigre—Cat’s Cradle, Feb. 23
(01/18/05 5:00am)
The whole Indiana Jones series is stupid. Now I understand that I"m a few years late to criticize the series and that my dislike of those 'movies' is probably a 'crime' to some people, but grow up, you some people. I"m allowed to not like things. Anyway, although I never really got into the Indiana Jones series, there is one thing that always intrigued me about ol" Indy, and this thing is his impeccable ability to make the best out of a situation. Stuck in a pit filled of deadly snakes? No problem. The walls, lined with poison-tipped spikes, are caving in? Whatever. I admire that about Indy. I want to be like that. I hope you do too.
(12/02/04 5:00am)
A Segway
(11/29/04 5:00am)
This year for Thanksgiving, I had a life-changing experience. I stayed at Duke, ate lasagna instead of turkey, and did something that I personally believe that if you haven’t done yet, you are not qualified as a human being: I continuously watched all 27 episodes of the first season of “The OC”. Finally, I have found a show to compete with “Sex and the City”; the problem being, of course, that I’ve watched five more seasons of “Sex and the City” than I have “The OC”.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
This week, the rivalry between Duke and UNC will take on a drastically different tone. The two schools will gather on Main West on Friday to showcase their greatest musical talents in the first annual Battle of the Bands, complete with food vendors and beer on points to boot.
(11/15/04 5:00am)
So I’m going back home to California for winter break, and I’m beginning to prep myself mentally for the entourage of questions I know I’ll be getting, not only because I’ve gotten it oh-so-many times on campus, but also because I’ve heard it before.
(11/01/04 5:00am)
“Mrkgnao.”
(10/21/04 4:00am)
When Elliott Smith stabbed himself in the chest in the middle of recording his sixth LP, From a Basement on a Hill, something happened. Almost instantaneously the Kurt Cobain effect took hold: He became a marketing focal point, old album sales rose exponentially and quite a few people labeled him as “the most important artist of our time.” This sort of celebrity is exactly what Smith tried to avoid.
(10/18/04 4:00am)
The strangest thing happened to me. But first, let me provide some background info so that you have a sense of where I’m coming from.
(09/30/04 4:00am)
Explaining the differences within underground dance music is no easy task – distinctions can depend on variations as small as five beats per minute. However, Cooper Bethea, Trinity ‘02, rambles off the aural idiosyncrasies without ever stopping to think. Cooper, the founder and owner of the Durham-based label Urban Renewal Records, is saving music, whether he knows it or not.
(09/27/04 4:00am)
The summer before freshman year, I got my housing package from Duke. Immediately, a CD-ROM stuffed into the packet caught my eye. I popped that bad boy into my computer, and voilà! A nice little interactive menu appeared. I looked through the various choices, and finally clicked on the option labeled “DukeCard.” At once, I was assaulted by an entourage of enthusiastic Duke students saying scripted phrases like “I can’t live without my DukeCard!” “DukeCard for life!” and “My DukeCard rules every aspect of my life… I am its slave!” I rolled my eyes and made fun of the video clips with my dad. Little did I know, however, that I would soon be echoing the same sentiments about this enigmatic card… especially that last one.
(09/23/04 4:00am)
One month ago, Bob Groves, the owner and operator of the Starlite Drive-in Theater, was surveying the ruins of his life’s work. Flames had engulfed the theater’s 60-year-old un-insurable screen—as well as 80 percent of Groves’ belongings—the afternoon before. Groves, who was in Cary when the fire occurred, remembers receiving an urgent call to come back to Durham. Shortly afterward, he fell into shock. “I can’t recall anything that happened in the three days after the fire,” he said.
(09/16/04 4:00am)
I met a mechanic once. Now, I’ve met quite a few mechanics in my lifetime, but this one will always stick with me, mostly because I was never really sure whether or not he really was a mechanic. See, this man lied to me about almost everything. His name was Ralph, and he was homeless. I met him the summer before coming to college my freshman year. I was walking out of a Walgreens in downtown Palo Alto, and there he was sitting on a bench outside the store. I sat down on the bench and began to eat the candy bar I had just purchased. Ralph leaned over to me and asked, ever so politely, “You gonna finish all that?” I looked over in mild surprise. “I guess not,” I replied, as I handed him the bar. “Take as much as you want.” He proceeded to eat the entire bar while telling me some of the most ridiculous stories I have ever heard.
(08/30/04 4:00am)
Newsflash for unobservant and way-past-borderline-stupid people: Duke has itself a new president. Yes, someone cool enough to replace the intensely popular Nannerl Overholser Keohane, intelligent enough to run the University (not to mention use the word “phalanx” in conversation) and caring enough to live on campus (or at least within walking distance from West... the first president to do this in forty years).