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My dad and brother flew in this weekend for the NC State game, and with them here for only 24 hours, we tried to visit as many Durham restaurants as our stomachs could handle.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The Academy Awards — at its best, a beacon of cinematic prestige and, at its worst, a three-hour snobbish back-patting of Hollywood’s brightest stars — have become a headline mainstay in recent months for all the wrong reasons.
With almost 10 percent of its undergraduate population hailing from New York, Duke’s student body may have a different idea of what constitutes “Central Park” than local Durhamites. Located just off Main Street and next to the YMCA, Durham Central Park features a playground and hosts the renowned farmers' and art market that also bring food trucks, music and crafts to town.
How we attribute value to art has been a question since the origins of the art world. Those who determine what is valuable, an immense power that is often granted to critics, determine the kinds of art to be produced by artists.
In her 1964 piece titled “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Susan Sontag outlines a genre of art (but here, I’ll focus on films) that goes by the name “camp.”
One conversation kept coming up during my weekend at Sundance, overheard while waiting in a press line or riding on the crowded bus.
The story of the Tower of Babel has an all-too familiar ending. Scattered across the face of the earth as a result of their trespass, unable to speak with one voice and in one language, humanity can no longer aspire to or endanger divine preeminence.
By combining the personal with the political, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's "One Child Nation" delves into the generational effects of China's one-child policy.The documentary won the top honor of Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary category at Sundance Film Festival.
Love got you down? Finally found your one true love? Trying to avoid any and all couples on February 14th? Whatever your feelings are toward Valentine's Day, Recess has got you covered with our songs describing love, loss and everything in between:
Finding what to do on Valentine’s Day to get in the spirit, with or without a significant other, can be difficult. Some want to focus on the romance, while others to keep their minds away from love altogether.
Nelson Music Room filled up last weekend with undergraduates eager to learn about the experiences of their peers — except, they weren't sure whose experiences they were hearing.
At such a technologically tumultuous moment in time, it seems that a piece of techno sci-fi media emerges from the mind of a technological conspirator every second.
When it comes time to assemble Valentine’s Day-themed playlists every year, I’m often struck at just how easy it is to ascribe “love song” status to nearly any piece of pop music: Love, heartbreak and all their variations probably account for a good 50 percent of pop — from “Be My Baby” all the way down to “thank u, next” — and for the rest, it isn’t too difficult to draw the line.
If you’ve seen one romantic comedy, you’ve seen them all. The genre’s tropes are well-known: There’s the misunderstood brooding male love interest, the quirky yet loveable female heroine we can’t help but root for, the dowdy best friend whose main plot point is to encourage the heroine until she gives in to the hero’s strange quirks and learns to love him anyway.
Garnering three Oscar nominations, more than any prior Polish production, it seemed like Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” was destined to make history even before most American theaters decided to screen it.
In the 1970s, a recent Duke graduate named George Holt — who is now director of performing arts and film programs at the NC Museum of Art — organized one of North Carolina’s first folk festivals on Duke’s campus. With the help of Holger Nygard, a former Duke professor of folklore and medieval literature who passed away in 2015, Holt expanded his scope and formed a folk festival that would eventually become the Festival for the Eno, which still takes place annually at the Eno River State Park.
“Shoplifters” is a delicate and atmospheric portrait of family life that has garnered a well-earned renown as one of the best foreign films of 2018.
Girlpool have already outgrown the minimalism that both elevated and plagued their first album. Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker stripped their debut “Before The World Was Big” down to its most barebones components in an attempt to expose their imperfections. The effort was sometimes clumsy, sometimes earnest and always teenage in its self-sabotaging expression of vulnerability.
After filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky’s 2007 documentary “Hear and Now" won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival, she once again turned the camera to her closest family to explore what it means to be deaf.
Walking into “Ocean Room,” a life-size dome of video projections, is a full sensory experience. The visitor begins in a dark room, lit only by the massive ocean mound and filled with the sounds of crashing waves.
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