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One Woman, Many Issues
By Meghan Valerio | February 6, 2003Anna Deavere Smith has been known to say that if she were a white man, she would not be able to do the work that she does.
Anna Deavere Smith has been known to say that if she were a white man, she would not be able to do the work that she does.
Open up this month's issue of The Source, and a few pages in you will find what appears to be the beginning of an article or editorial piece - a page without any images or company emblems, only...
While Billy Corgan's work-hard, work-hard mentality may have been the force that ultimately smashed the Smashing Pumpkins, his serious approach to music produced artful, profound, post-grunge rock...
I have to admit that I didn't know what to expect from an alleged punk band with no previous full-length releases and a name derived from a Jack Kerouac autobiography.
We've all played around with camcorders at some point, and we've all had delusions of Hollywood excess. If you're really cool, maybe you even made it as an extra on Dawson's Creek at some point.
If my study abroad session in London has turned me into the Recess foreign correspondent, then we're all in big trouble. This just in: I've been drunk ever since I got here.
So when the opportunity arises to interview Matthew McConaughey, you go for it. And Recess Editor Meg Lawson sure did.
How aptly titled Wendell Theatre Group's On the Verge is.
While it may seem impossible to turn an 800-page Charles Dickens novel into a film of reasonable length without doing it a great injustice, writer/director Douglas McGrath succeeds admirably with...
So Mediterranean Deli and Catering in Chapel Hill won't win any awards for name originality, but they certainly have some of the best Middle Eastern food in the area.
London DJ-pack Groove Armada has made the "chill" sound as much a science as an art.
Staying in tonight? Catching up on some quality trash TV? You're not alone. Thank Chuck Barris, the - those campy 60s and 70s primetime hits considered precursors to modern reality TV shows.
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's most famous works, such as The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters, turned him into a 20th century critic's darling.
f you've ever been to Asia, the "night-market" shopping experience is one that you must not miss.
Get your Red Bull ready: It's time to stay up way past your bedtime. Sure, you could be pulling an all-nighter at the library, but now it's time to party.
I met Snood midway through freshman year. It was love. Those friendly faces were always waiting for me - waiting, smiling, never judging. The orange ones look like Cheetos, bless 'em.
Symbiotic relationships seem to occur as much in art as they do in science - take it from Visiting Lecturer of Theater Studies Jay O'Berski, who notes the give and take between Duke's drama...
"Art flick" culture has long been in the hands of Hollywood, and the trendy "art" movies often showcase big stars and large budgets.
Walk through Brightleaf Square and you know it's somewhere around here but you can't quite - ah - far left corner. Theo's Kellari.