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Stupid as a noun
By Sydny Long | April 23, 2021Intelligence is not everything. It is the only thing.
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MUSIC
After a seven-year hiatus, The Antlers are back with the jarringly gentle 'Green to Gold'
By Sydny Long | April 5, 2021While “Green to Gold” is far from ambitious or even striking, it does follow the band’s legacy of novelty, however softly.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself — and rollercoasters
By Sydny Long | February 8, 2021Unfortunately for my young nerves, the entire “Final Destination” franchise hinges on the premise that no matter how closely you examine the world for signs, no matter how many premonitions you experience, no matter how tightly you hold onto your loved one, you and everyone you know will eventually die.
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The show must go on: Hoof 'n' Horn to perform musical 'Dreamgirls' this spring
By Sydny Long | February 1, 2021It has been almost a year since an in-person performance has been staged before an audience at Duke, but that hasn’t stopped student theater organization Hoof ‘n’ Horn from going forward with their spring musical.
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MOVIES
Amazon Prime’s ‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’ movie series quickly wears out its welcome
By Sydny Long | October 13, 2020With box offices quickly becoming a thing of the past, Blumhouse has doubled down on its efforts to produce streaming content for Halloween.
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Nasher exhibit 'RESIST COVID | TAKE 6' to launch across campus
By Sydny Long | September 14, 2020When the Nasher Museum of Art announced that it would remain closed to visitors throughout the fall semester, students and Durham residents alike braced themselves for a year without the museum’s beautifully-curated exhibits. The Nasher, however, had no such plans.
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‘Hamilton’ on Disney+ is a step in the right direction for musical theater
By Sydny Long | August 28, 2020Before there was the professionally-shot production of “Hamilton” uploaded onto Disney+ to worldwide acclaim, there was “founding fathers slime tutorial.”
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It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I don’t feel fine)
By Sydny Long | August 17, 2020Despite my intention to toughen up at the onset of adulthood, I remained an oyster without a shell, soft and yielding.
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Story+ summer program to continue telling stories from a distance
By Sydny Long | May 26, 2020The interdisciplinary narratives of Duke's Story+ will continue to be told in spite of — and even because of — the current circumstances.
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On becoming a goddess in central South Carolina
By Sydny Long | February 20, 2020When I was a young girl, I hated Aphrodite.