Amanda Barr’s latest show, the challenging and exciting Public Healing, explores the idea of healing. Part of Friday night’s opening including a special appearance by a shaman, enhancing the ideas in Barr’s work. If you were unable to check out the opening, watch the above video for a glimpse of the performance–though it only gives a very small taste of what those who were they experienced. And don’t forget to check out the Sept. 3 issue of recess for a review of Barr’s show.
In an act illustrating exactly why Duke ranked so high on GQ’s list of America’s Douchiest Colleges, what we can only imagine to be a group of Duke students has issued an online petition against the Conde Nast publication’s for its “biased selection process.” It says:
We, the undersigned members of the Duke University community, demand the following:
- More transparency in GQ’s douchiest school selection process.
- More rigor in the aforementioned process, reflecting the rigor in Duke University’s renowned douche-nurturing environment.
- An explanation of why Duke could win numerous honorable mentions in diverse categories of douchiness, reflecting the world-class breadth and depth of Duke’s douchetastic excellence, yet still only earn second place.
- A ranking correction. Duke University must be selected for first place to reflect the reality of Duke all-surpassing performance in fine douche education.
- Free dry cleaning for my Polo shirts, brah. Don’t you know who my dad is?
Looks like Bob Dyland didn’t take our suggestion for his Christmas album’s cover art. Vulture has the cover artChristmas in the Heart. In spite of the mildly humorous Russian man guiding the sleigh, it seems a little to Yankee Candle for the man behind Blood on the Tracks. We’re already knocking it a star.
This year’s Troika Music Festival just got a lot better and there are 15 reasons why. The lineup now includes 15 more bands, among them Megafaun, the Love Language, Red Collar, Pipe (!) and Butterflies. The schedule for this year’s festival will be released later this week. Ticket sales for Durham’s November 5-7 music festival will also begin later this week. Check back her for further updates and below for the new additions to Troika.
Duke’s Ciompi Quartet performed in the Pegram Residence Hall on East Campus last night at 10 p.m. with President Richard H. Brodhead and his wife, Cindy, seated in the audience. The quartet is also gearing for a series of four, informal lunchtime concerts in the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library this year, the first of which is slated for Tuesday, Sept. 15.
