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Carolina Theatre's Retro Film Series continues this fall

By Eva Hong | September 6, 2017

The Retro Film Series continues at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham from July to December. The series will celebrate its 20th birthday next year and includes RetroFantasma, RetroClassics, RetroTreasures and RetroAmore—four sections in which anyone in their mid-30s to early-40s will find the fancy of his or her youth.

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'Nothing about us without us': Southern Documentary Fund's Artists Convening highlights regional filmmakers

By Georgina Del Vecho | June 7, 2017

This June marks the fourth annual Artists Convening for the Southern Documentary Fund, a Triangle-based nonprofit that advances documentary projects made in or about the American South.

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Moogfest 2017: A dubious union of wealth and protest in Durham

By Nina Wilder | June 5, 2017

When the organizers of Moogfest announced in February that the music, art and technology festival would feature a “Protest Stage” dedicated to resisting the current wave of inequality in both North Carolina and the United States (specifically: HB2, President Trump’s travel ban), many were delighted.

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Art of Cool Festival 2017 brings jazz and soul to the Bull City

By Nina Wilder | June 5, 2017

If you live in a city that hosts an annual music festival, you’re probably used to the obtrusive changes often wrought by a festival’s sprawl: blocked-off roads, flocks of visitors and unremitting noise.

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Local Arts Spotlight: The Carrack

By Georgina Del Vecho | June 5, 2017

The Carrack is an exhibition and event space in downtown Durham. In June 2011, founders Laura Ritchie and John Wendelbo created the space with the intention of revitalizing the Durham arts community by providing an exhibition and gathering space for local artists.

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Moogfest 2017: Hannibal Buress and Flying Lotus talk music, creative process

By Will Atkinson | June 5, 2017

On Moogfest’s third day in Durham, Flying Lotus joined comedian Hannibal Buress and DJ Tony Trimm for a conversation about the producer’s creative process and multi-faceted career.

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Moogfest, a celebration of music and technology, prepares for second year in Durham

By Will Atkinson | April 19, 2017

“One doesn’t hear much talk of synthesizers here,” the electronic music pioneer Robert Moog said of western North Carolina, shortly after moving there in 1977.

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Full Frame 2017 marked 20 years of programming for the film festival

By Nina Wilder | April 19, 2017

Two weeks ago, more than 10,000 people poured into Durham during a four-day stretch to partake in Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s 20th annual celebration of documentary filmmaking.

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Full Frame 2017: Interview with the cast and crew of ‘Quest’

By Nina Wilder | April 12, 2017

Filmed over the span of 10 years, “Quest” is an intimate portrait of the Rainey family as they deal with both the trivialities and tribulations that their life in North Philadelphia has to offer.

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Recess reviews: Hippo Campus in concert

By Sid Gopinath | March 29, 2017

The way the crowd was singing along, you would never guess that Hippo Campus had just released their first full-length album less than a month ago.

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Recess reviews: SOHN in concert

By Sid Gopinath | March 28, 2017

The first thing anyone mentioned was the hat. To be fair, it was a bold statement hat. There was nothing cute about it.

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Durham choreographer Tony Johnson on struggle, identity and dance

By Aditya Joshi | March 8, 2017

Dance never came easily for Tony Johnson. Let me rephrase. Tony Johnson has always had the talent.

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​Cosmic vs. Chubby’s: Battle on Ninth Street

By Drew Haskins | March 1, 2017

For many Duke students, Ninth Street is an off-campus haven. Home to Harris Teeter, various apartment complexes and popular restaurants such as Burger Bach and Happy + Hale, it’s a thriving mecca of food and commerce conveniently situated right at the nexus between East and West Campus.

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Talib Kweli talks hip hop, social justice in week-long Durham residency

By Will Atkinson | February 22, 2017

In the latest addition to Duke Performances’ artist-in-residence series, hip-hop artist and activist Talib Kweli spent the last week in Durham holding conversations with Duke professors and Durham community members before playing two sold-out shows at Motorco Music Hall. The residency began Wednesday with a public conversation between Kweli and resident professor Patrick Douthit, better known as the producer 9th Wonder, which was sponsored by Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics.

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Kirby and Tim review Marc Maron's recent Durham performance

By Kirby Wilson and Tim Campbell | February 21, 2017

Kirby: I didn't really have time to think about what to expect at Marc Maron's comedy show because I was too busy stuffing Pompieri into my mouth as you and I did our eleventh-hour power walk.

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Why everyone is obsessed with Cook Out

By Will Atkinson | February 15, 2017

My high school, situated in the heart of Cary, N.C., regarded itself as the last bastion of the American high school experience.

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A wig and a wall: a reflection on 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'

By Kyle Alderdice | February 8, 2017

We live in an era of walls. On the news we see walls conjured by ideologies and walls placed around our words, walls that defined our history and walls that some promise will do the same for our future.

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CDS explores environmental racism in the South through new exhibition

By Kirby Wilson | January 18, 2017

Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. candidate in the Nicholas School of the Environment, wants you to know that, under the painful exterior of cyclical poverty, there is beauty.

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Student favorite Shooters II Saloon night club sees decreased attendance

By Melissa Letzler | January 11, 2017

Most every Duke student knows Saturday nights are best ended at Shooters. But after a decade plus reign, Shooters’ domination of the Duke social scene might be wavering.

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Student sketch comedy group Inside Joke performs last show of the semester

By Nina Wilder | December 7, 2016

There’s no pronounced shortage of comedy on Duke’s campus. Duke University Improv holds live shows throughout the semester, Department Of publishes its satirical pieces monthly and the Chronicle even has its humorous Monday Monday column which runs biweekly.