Jazz's Chameleon

For Herbie Hancock's performance, one thing is predictable: It'll be unpredictable.

• by Joe Vanderford

The Talking Trampoline

Sheila Heti's recipe for her McSweeney's book tour: Get three people to stand up in a bar and speak on subjects they don't know about.

• by Fiona Morgan

Protest Maps and Engraved Bodies

At Duke, slavick's work maps the fatal seduction of distance, while Covey's engravings cut into the wood--and the darkness

• by Elizabeth Howie

Updating Stravinsky

In three updates, Weiss' clowns lead us through an imaginative carnival of the mind--until they seem to start running out the clock.

• by Byron Woods

High Tide

Though uneven acting sometimes sinks in Little Eyolf's hellish river, Jitney goes swimmingly.

• by Byron Woods

Eat it raw? No, thanks.

Eat it raw? No, thanks.

• by Sharon Kebschull Barrett

Beating the Rap?

While Fellerath embraces De Palma's Femme, Morrison remembers Eminem's old neighborhood didn't look like 8 Mile

• by David Fellerath and James Morrison

Duke's next dynasty?

Among the men, UNC is rebuilding, N.C. State is resuming where it left off and Duke is rejoicing over its recruiting class. But it's the Duke women who are ranked first in the country.

• by Barry Jacobs

Jacobs' Ladder

Television Schedule

Urgent Business

Hal Crowther

Jesters from hell

• by Hal Crowther

Answering to Floyd

• by Barbara Solow

A road less traveled?

• by Barbara Solow

Fish breath

• by Victoria A. Wentz

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

Openers

Openers

• by Danny Hooley

Do the Hustle

Has hip-hop lost its soul?

• by Gabriel M. Rich

In dance

Pat Conroy at Madstone

Pat Conroy at Madstone

Pop Will Eat Itself

But where's the beef?

• by Jennie Alibasic

In Celtic music

In classical

That 1 Guy & His Magic Pipe

That 1 Guy & His Magic Pipe

Girl Power!

Hey, isn't that the name of a porn video?

• by K8 Erwin

In bluegrass

Fab Five

Fab Five

Reflecting on Durham's Civil Rights Movement

Reflecting on Durham's Civil Rights Movement

Oh, Brother

Country radio's got its head up its molasses

• by Alan Richard

In theater

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