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On becoming a goddess in central South Carolina

By Sydny Long | February 20, 2020

When I was a young girl, I hated Aphrodite.

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Happy and full of wonder

By Tessa Delgo | February 13, 2020

In a 2005 commercial, my mother turns to the camera and beams, “My child wants to be an artist.”

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What Kobe meant to me

By Derek Chen | February 6, 2020

As a kid, I absolutely loved the NBA. The league had the biggest and brightest basketball stars in the world, and being the six-year-old dreamer I was, I wanted to be just like them

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How Last.fm ruined my life

By Jonathan Pertile | January 30, 2020

I’m obsessed with music data. At this point, I might as well just call it what it is: an addiction.

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‘Did you like abroad better than Duke?’

By Eva Hong | January 23, 2020

The question caught me off guard.

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I can’t stop thinking about JoJo Siwa

By Nina Wilder | January 9, 2020

YouTube is where I go when I want to be entertained — effortlessly, thoughtlessly, mind-numbingly entertained.

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Imagining Sisyphus happy

By Kerry Rork | December 5, 2019

One of my favorite pieces I read in all my years of English classes was Albert Camus’s essay on the myth of Sisyphus.

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All you need is a stick figure

By Sydny Long | November 21, 2019

Ever since the dawn of my movie-watching days, I have been singularly obsessed with animation.

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20 years later, ‘The West Wing’ still holds up

By Jack Rubenstein | November 14, 2019

Twenty years after it first premiered, “The West Wing” remains one of the most influential shows in modern TV history.

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What’s your sign?

By Sarah Derris | November 7, 2019

One of the first things I consciously remember reading as a child was a book on zodiacs.

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Embracing ‘losing control’ through female rap

By Miranda Gershoni | October 31, 2019

My first exposure to female rap was Lauryn Hill’s “MTV Unplugged No. 2.0,” which my mother had on vinyl and would play most evenings after school.

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Crate-digging in the age of Spotify

By Will Atkinson | October 24, 2019

I tend to discover music in one of two ways: either from the usual cycle of new releases and album reviews, or from a chance trip down the rabbit hole of Spotify’s related-artists feature.

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What a horny teen murder drama taught me about myself

By Alizeh Sheikh | October 17, 2019

Nadia Shanaa is a Palestinian, hijab-wearing, Virgo energy-radiating character from “Elite,” a show that Vulture aptly described as “Netflix’s best horny teen drama.”

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Setting a new ‘baseline’

By Kerry Rork | October 10, 2019

The cultural discourse surrounding mental health seems to perpetuate and welcome the worst baseline. And when the baseline is disrupted, it feels nearly impossible to reset.

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Durham, I love you

By Jack Rubenstein | October 3, 2019

Outside of the puppies at the Canine Cognition Center, Durham might be the best thing Duke has to offer us.

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Sacred rituals

By Sarah Derris | September 19, 2019

I arrived in New York a full week and a half before starting my new job. Just enough time to orient myself to my new landscape.

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What comes after certainty

By Will Atkinson | September 5, 2019

On Karl Ove Knausgaard, Bill Callahan and the art of daily living.