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I believe it was the late, great William Shakespeare who once said, “For never was a story of more woe than that of the subpar college dancer.” Between Shooters, a canceled Lil Jon concert and a cappella shows, somehow the situation always arises where college students have to dance.
Along with “The Great Gatsby,” “Hamlet” and “Fahrenheit 451,” Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a nearly inescapable element of most high school English curricula. The play, originally produced in 1944, centers around the story of Laura, a sickly and shy daughter obsessed with her collection of glass animals, whose mother Amanda seeks to find her a “gentleman caller” with the help of Tom, Laura’s brother.
When the Duke University Union announced last week that this year’s Heatwave concert will be headlined by rapper Sage the Gemini, I was miffed.
Music lovers armed with picnic blankets will converge on the Duke Gardens this summer for the weekly series Music in the Gardens.
As students celebrate their freedom from assignments and exams over the summer break, another celebration will soon grace Duke’s campus: The American Dance Festival (ADF) commemorates its 40th season in Durham this summer with six-and-a-half weeks packed with performances.
Andrew Method, Pratt ’16, has been passionate about film for as long as he can remember. Reared in Park City, Utah—the city where Sundance Film Festival takes place annually—Method was raised in an environment that adored and celebrated film.
Duke Coffeehouse maintained its reputation as the place for all things weird, unpredictable and avant-garde when it hosted the Chaus Arts Showcase last Wednesday, a collection of art from some of the Coffeehouse’s favorite Duke artists.
Finding a picture of Will Ye is a difficult task. The first-year student, who in his short time at Duke has amassed something of a cult following through the Facebook meme-sharing group “Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens,” has made invisibility a defining feature of his online presence.
This week, an old painted piano is reclaiming its spot on the Bryan Center Plaza. This instrument is a sure sign that the annual Duke Arts Festival has returned. The Duke Arts Festival, which began April 7 and will conclude April 14, aims to bring the arts to all students on campus.
By any measure, the Duke Coffeehouse isn’t one of the more popular spots for students on campus.
The title of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s spring show contains a conscious choice of words, billing “The Aeneid” as “a play with songs.” In most circles, this type of production is referred to as a “musical.” But that word, with its host of connotations, tends to provoke genuine discomfort among certain segments of modern audiences.
What does the New York native and filmmaker Spike Lee have in common with Chicago’s rising artist Nina Chanel Abney?
Student rappers and spoken word artists took to the stage Saturday night at the Muslim Student Association’s spoken word night.
The crowd at the Nasher Museum of Art last Thursday was bustling and spirited, a diverse commingling of students and residents from the farthest reaches of the Triangle Area.
The corridors of the East Duke building were alive Saturday evening. Students lay sprawled across the floor in what loosely resembled a line and loud chatter hung in the air, jumbled and indistinct.
Before Timothy Tyson got the phone call, he did not want to write a book about Emmett Till. Like most historians of the American South, the senior researcher at Duke’s department of documentary studies thought he knew the story.
Two hours before the Lunar New Year Festival Saturday, the scene in Penn Pavilion was a hectic one.
Protests, which are unequivocal cornerstones to American democracy, have been swelling across the United States since the inauguration of president Donald Trump.
In the weeks leading up to the Duke v. Carolina game, hundreds of Duke students forgo sleeping in their cozy dorm beds in favor of taking up residence in the tent village affectionately known as K-Ville.