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Step to This

BOOM boom clap, bah Boom boom clap! Tomorrow night, six of Duke's National Pan-hellenic Conference fraternities and sororities will step to a different beat as the annual Homecoming Step Show...


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Demolition Derby

Armed with crisp acoustic guitar licks and rhythms, a croon that can shift to a snarl in the space of a chorus and the clever craftsmanship reserved for the most talented singer/songwriters, Ryan...


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Welcome to Bali-Wood

On the island of Bali, traditional dance captures the spirit of ceremonies and corresponds with religious rituals and family and community events.


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Durham Band

All this talk about a "Durham Renaissance," and you still think it's that hippie caftan shop on 9th Street? This Saturday is a chance to get your first sloppy mouthful of Durham at the Durham Band...


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Suffering from Heath-Stroke

You can only criticize bad filmmaking so many times; you can only cite shallow, undeveloped characters, weak plot lines and general theatrical nuisance until one movie review starts to run into the...


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Dr. Phil and the Gothic Wonderland

After having the most successful launch of a syndicated talk show since mentor Oprah, Dr. Phil has, like many other TV shows, decided to pay the Gothic Wonderland a visit.


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Sea of Sorrow

To the uncaring bitch who tore out Beck's heart and destroyed his world--thank you very much. You should do it again sometime.


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30 Seconds to Crap

30 Seconds to Mars' self-titled debut album is a disturbing, hour-long journey to a post-apocalyptic civilization led by none other than the most post-apocalyptic of all--Jared Leto.


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Meet Ren Provey!

Though he is a very important and busy man, Recess has managed to catch up with the indefatigable Ren Provey, for whom the WEL walkway was named by our readers last week.


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Interview with a Heartbreaker

When first-time director Sam Jones set out to document the making of Wilco's YankeeHotelFoxtrot a couple years ago, he never could have guessed the drama that was to ensue: Accused of producing...


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Parsons: Flying off the Page

As part of the Duke Artists Classics and Masterworks Series sponsored by the Institute for the Arts, Parsons Dance Company descends on Page Auditorium Tuesday night at 8 p.m.


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Picture Perfect in a Suburban Hell

This is middle-America as One Hour Photo director Mark Romanek sees it: a sprawling wasteland of green lawns and tidy streets, where planned-communities and strip-malled homogenization speak not...