Super Pumped and Strung Out
By Greg Bloom | May 30, 2002After ten years in the biz and four full-length albums (including one mixed by Ozzy Osbourne), So-Cal punk band Strung Out will thrash its way into the Cat's Cradle on June 2.
After ten years in the biz and four full-length albums (including one mixed by Ozzy Osbourne), So-Cal punk band Strung Out will thrash its way into the Cat's Cradle on June 2.
About a Boy is really about two boys: Hugh Grant's Will--38 and a waste of space--and Nicholas Hoult's Marcus--12, with a suicidal mother and a terrible, crooked, bowl-shaped haircut.
Coca-Cola stopped adding cocaine to its drink in the 1890s, but they hope to give drinkers an addictive fix with a new infusion.
As the diminutive Yoda rounds a dark corner and ignites his lightsaber at the end of Star Wars Episode II, audiences around the world gasp for air at the excitement of the moment.
A little of the Ottoman Empire intrigue has been brought to a show at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Isaac Brock has issues. Big, throbbing drug-addled demons--that much is clear from the tortured music of his indie-legend band Modest Mouse.
You don't have to be skilled in the military phonetic alphabet to read the writing on the wall: Wilco's fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the most pleasant surprise to hit the record store...
Eminem may say that Moby is "too old," but actually the veteran musician just turned 36 on September 11.
lmost exactly one year in the rearview mirror, let's face it: Weezer's Green Album stands as a major disappointment.
You've seen it, your cousin has seen it and that sci-fi freak in your cell bio class with thick-rimmed glasses, a pocket protector and an aversion to proper hygiene has definitely seen it.
hink you can't learn anything from reality TV? Think again.
After two dozen issues and a year of late nights, you'd think I'd have something profound to say about entertainment. But that's just it--I don't.
Duke Magazine Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Bliwise knows a good mag when he sees one--that's why he doesn't read Recess.
My happy one-year stint as film editor has come to its natural end, and I stuck it out the whole year (despite the crop of lousy films) observing two trends in American cinema.
Recess writers aren't known for mincing words, and the bad attitudes bubbling beneath the surface reveal just how many of us were beaten in kindergarten.
Hoof On' Horn's spring mounting of Kiss Me, Kate is a more-than-adequate fit for Duke's fickle romance environment.
David Walters, the model of Southern gentility and future music editor of Recess, reflected upon 12 months of music, and this is the best he could come up with:.
Here at Recess, we're tough critics, but when we like 'em, we love 'em. Disregard the nasty quips and biting sarcasm and feel the lovage, baby. After all, this is Duke--A's are easy to come by.
Each year, Recess staff writers see countless theatrical productions, art exhibits and the like, and whether they're good or bad, we pass our reviews on to you.