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On Tuesday April 5, 2016 something unprecedented happened on Duke’s campus: Street Medicine, Duke’s premier (and not to mention only) urban dance group hosted its first ever hip hop dance showcase, dubbed UNLEASHED.
LDOC Analysis The acts for the 2016 LDOC were announced last week without the pitiful fake-out video and caustic Yik Yak student tirades.
Full of wonders like sea monsters, labyrinths, minotaurs and puppets, The Duke Players’ upcoming Spring show will mirror the real world with fantasy.
This past week, Duke’s Out of the Blue released their new album, “Youth”. “Youth” is the latest in a rapid stream of albums that OOTB has released in the past few years.
From the fire extinguisher in Giles’s oven to the pizza box in Randolph’s dryer, pranks of this year’s freshman class are notorious among underclassmen and upperclassmen alike.
As expected during the calm of Spring Break, campus was eerily empty. Even the ebb and flow of p-frosh, their families and members of the Durham community walking on the grounds in nearly perfect weather made only but a subtle hum.
The Nasher has been an integral part of Duke’s campus for the past ten years. Now, students have even more of an opportunity to interact with the museum through the Nasher’s introduction of the Museum Theory and Practice concentration for the Art History major.
Duke students may remember Emma Watson’s speech to the United Nations announcing the HeForShe movement.
Irony is one of those elements that invigorates the intellectual function of a story if it is well applied. It makes storytelling sharper and clearer. It also creates tension in the story and helps the reader to follow and understand the narrative easily.
There are a considerable number of singing groups on campus; from a cappella to musical theater to the more chorus-like groups, it can get overwhelming.
Barbara Hammond, a playwright in residence at New Dramatists in New York, has been visiting Duke for two weeks to work with students in Jody McAuliffe’s advanced acting class and stage her work in progress, “We Are Pussy Riot.” The play is inspired by the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who have used performance art to protest and defy the regime of President Vladmir Putin.
"My standards have always been very high; I don’t dumb things down. I always assume my readers are smart—and they are."
"It’s easy to be bogged down with Duke bubble, so you’re not totally sure how to reach out into the media world and connect with people."
When visitors walk into the Nasher exhibit “A Material Legacy”, they are immediately greeted by a large stainless steel circle, which presents a distorted view of the image behind the visit.
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I've played saxophone and drums since elementary school, when I caught the music bug. I started a rock band in high school with my best friends, and we ended up recording an album in a professional studio in Queens, NY, near where I grew up. We wrote all original music and raised enough funds for the project by selling our band's T-shirts to our family and friends.
This Saturday Night, the Duke Wind Symphony will host its 42nd annual Viennese Ball in the Freeman Center.
This Thursday, Page auditorium is sure to be packed with Duke students waiting to see BØRNS in a special mid-semester concert. While concerts like Heatwave and Old Duke are traditions at Duke, other concerts are more of a rarity, making BØRNS a unique opportunity to see a popular musical artist.
The Chronicle's Georgia Parke sat down with McGinn to talk about "Chef's Table," and the creative worlds of food and directing.