Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James visits the Rubenstein Arts Center

Getting their bearings: A look into Duke's skateboarding culture

An aura pervades their skateboarding show.  A mystique too complex and fluid to firmly categorize or define.

Ricky Moore on ‘Food as Care’ at ‘The Ethics of Now’

 “Why does it matter what we eat?”

Q&A: Brooks Frederickson on Duke Laptop Ensemble, the newest music group on campus

"Even if making music for you is just like punching buttons on your phone, and then it spits out a song. That's great," Frederickson said. "That's making. That's creating. Everyone should be doing that."

'She Kills Monsters'

To convey the themes of this play and show how Agnes’s life changes through the course of the campaign, the play switches between the D&D game and the real world, with most of the action taking place within the world of the game.

“Funky and fresh”: WXDU to host Record Fair for the first time since 2019

WXDU — Duke University’s student-run, non-commercial radio station — will host a Record Fair this Saturday, Oct. 22 at from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Mipsterz’s ‘Alhamdu Muslim Futurism' visits the Ruby

Over the last two months, Duke has been the lucky site of the “Alhamdu Muslim Futurism” (Alhamdu is short for al-hamdu li-llāh, the Arabic phrase for “praise be to God”) world premiere, likely the first ever exhibit entirely dedicated to Muslim Futurism.

The sun still shines: Recess reflects on the best culture of the summer

From listening to the same album until the sun comes up to binge watching the most ridiculous reality TV, the Recess staff compiled their favorite pieces of culture from a season that’s all about rotting your brain in the most nurturing way.

‘Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948 - 1960’ exhibition opens at the Nasher

The Nasher Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948 - 1960,” opened on August 25 after a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Duke students launch Dime Marketplace to showcase young entrepreneurs

Senior Abby Huang decided during her senior year of high school that she wanted to found a virtual marketplace start-up. Many iterations of her vision later, Huang and her team of Duke undergraduate and graduate students have launched Dime Marketplace, a platform designed for young creators to sell their products.

Duke students kick off Tongue and Sole Lab

Hoof ’n’ Horn beckons us to follow them 'Into the Woods'

The lights dim, the sounds of a serene forest spring subside while the audience in Shaffer Lab Theater falls to an anticipating quiet. Everyone is here to see Hoof’n’Horn’s Spring production of "Into the Woods." 

Q&A: MFA student Shirin Maleki talks thesis project '30/900'

 In her thesis project, Maleki explores the realities of immigration through liminal spaces drawn from livestream footage and spoken word.

Emily MacDiarmid's 'Approved for Release' sheds light on government-sponsored astral projection experiment

As much as MacDiarmid's short film explores the unusual, often unheard of experiment, it also speaks to the current environmental destruction we are experiencing on our own planet. 

Six ALP courses to round out your fall schedule

Still trying to knock out your T-Reqs? Look no further. 

Runway of Dreams presents its second annual adaptive fashion show

The annual adaptive fashion show, brought by Runway of Dreams, brought some bright colors to the gloomy spring weather on campus last week.

Q&A: Petrichor Jewelry founder Esther Hong on being impulsively artistic and the freedom of making one-of-a-kind art

Hong's one-of-a-kind, upcycled necklaces have become coveted statement pieces for varying punk-inspired and vintage jewelry collections across campus and beyond.

'Reliquary of Complicated Truths' exhibition at Duke Chapel delves into loneliness and hope

The works in “Reliquary of Complicated Truth” are tangible metaphors, telling the viewers that discarded, seemingly useless material can be pieced together and transformed into art, just as mundanity and brokenness can be reconfigured into something beautiful.