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The Chronicle's Recess section has some fun Duke-specific costume ideas for Halloween.
Jackson Prince, Trinity ‘19, knows he’s an insider to the entertainment industry.
Read on and click through to enjoy our top five stories from September.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the latest film from writer and director Quentin Tarantino, premiered in July. The movie follows Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as he navigates the ups and downs of a Hollywood career in 1969, as well as the looming presence of the Manson Family cult in Los Angeles. Editor Nina Wilder and Campus Arts Editor Kerry Rork chatted about their thoughts on Tarantino’s new film and the events that inspired it. Warning: spoilers below.
For our first column, we're taking questions related to the transition between summer and school, like your lingering doubts about an office affair or the anxieties driven by your return to Durham. Sounds like a problem you could use help with? Use the submission form below, and ask Alice.
Nothing holds more importance in a cinema than a film, certainly not the patron nor his concerns or woes; quite literally, everything else surrenders to the shadows.
After a long break, we're back with the newest episode of “Reel to Reel,” Recess’s pop culture podcast.
I’m fat. When I was younger, I preferred to use descriptors that minimized my body like chubby or curvy or plus-sized, but now I’m 20 years old, five-foot-ten and weigh over 250 pounds. My fatness is undeniable.
Much discussion has erupted in recent weeks regarding the (purportedly) fading necessity of reviews. In an age of discontinued Netflix-star-ratings, Amazon top customer reviewers and enraged YouTubers, the long-form reviews of movies, books or music that once dominated newspapers are increasingly seen as antiquated or downright ignorant
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.”
David Rubenstein’s likeness is used in Aguilar Ruvalcaba’s “Who Owns Poverty?” exhibit, on display at the Ruby until Nov. 3.
“Red” finds Taylor Swift caught in the crossroads of Nashville and New York.
“Little Shop of Horrors” is, at its core, an exploration of human nature.
Caroline Calloway, an “Instagram influencer,” gained even more popularity this month when a take-down piece was published about her.
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