But much to everyone’s surprise, Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at Roseanne Cash’s Duke Performance show last night. Cash confirmed as much on her Twitter.
While we wait for the photos of the Boss to appear, we also have to wonder whether anyone will tell him about the Nebraska tribute going on tomorrow night.
Uniquities, the popular Chapel Hill clothing store, opens its newest shop on 1000 W Main St. Durham. The grand opening is today, April 15. from 5-9 pm.
Clearing Waters, the student-made film from senior Michael Burakow and junior Nick Hawthorne, premiered Sunday night in Griffith Film Theater. A mini red carpet was set up in the Bryan Center outside the entrance to Griffith, where the directors, producers, actors and audience members posed for photographs, many of them dressed in awards-esque attire.
Digital publishing company Open Road Media spent the last two days on campus filming parts of a new mini-documentary on author and Duke alum William Styron. The crew shot around the university grounds, especially focusing on Styron’s dormitory and Perkins library, in the hopes of capturing his full Duke experience. The mini-documentary will be released over the course of the upcoming year. Stay tuned for updates.
Highland Falls, a new television drama written, produced, directed and acted by a class of Duke students, will air tonight at 9 p.m. on Cable 13. Visiting Theater Studies Professor Michael Malone, formerly the head writer of soap opera One Life to Live, and lecturing Theater Studies fellow Elisabeth Benfey have instructed the 40-person class in their development of a full season of television.
The show, based on the 1920s novel “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser, follows transfer student Chase Griffith in his first days at his new home, Dreiser University. He interacts with his spoiled legacy cousin Grant and fawns over the mysterious and beautiful Skylar Finchley. You will also be able to watch the show on YouTube the day after each 15-minute episode airs.
You can view the trailer here (editors note: familiar faces from Recess are involved).
