November Theatre in the Park Through June 20 David Mamet’s best plays, like Oleanna and American Buffalo, are so rigorously constructed, his dialogue so muscular, that the bad politics he fills them with leave audiences with challenging and exciting moral knots to untie. But when his art fails him, his plays are just the bad […]
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Durham Bulls douse Gwinnett Braves: So good it hurts
photo courtesy of Durham BullsMatt Joyce DBAP/DURHAM—The start of last night’s game was delayed by a downpour of rain for exactly two hours and one minute. First pitch was at 7:06 PM, or one minute after the normal start time of most games at the DBAP. It was as if certain laws of the universe […]
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Durham Bulls beat Buffalo Bisons again: Quick, Quick, Slow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcomassarotto/4070187292/ DBAP/DURHAM—I watched part of last night’s 6-4 Bulls victory over the Buffalo Bisons with a choreographer friend of mine. After the game, which took 3:16 to play, she told me that each minute of elapsed time in one of her dance pieces takes about three hours to choreograph. Last night’s ballgame was long, sluggish, […]
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Carlos Hernandez, Durham Bulls blank Buffalo Bisons: Crunching the numbers (and cracking some bones)
File photo by D.L. AndersonCarlos Hernandez DBAP/DURHAM—The Durham Bulls wore pink last night. There’s a lot of breast cancer awareness signage around Durham these days (although it isn’t National Breast Cancer Awareness Month), and it was good to see the local ballclub represent. Pink may not be first on anyone’s list of sports team colors—I […]
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N.C. State TheatreFest’s Murder on the Nile
Murder on the Nile N.C. State TheatreFest At Titmus Theater in Thompson Hall Through June 19 Murder on the Nile, the second of three Agatha Christie whodunits running in staggered repertory as part of N.C. State’s TheatreFest, is a proudly timeworn contraption. Apparently, it already was back in 1946, when critic Bernard Buckham wrote of […]
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Tidewater blues
Mattaponi Queen: Stories By Belle Boggs Greywolf Press; 240 pp. It’s not until late in Belle Boggs’ debut short story collection, Mattaponi Queen, that we learn an interesting fact about the source of the river, about three hours’ drive north from the Triangle, that gives the book its title: “The Mat joined the Ta in […]
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Jeremy Hellickson and the Durham Bulls blank the Rochester Red Wings: Cutters and Koans
Durham BullsJeremy Hellickson DBAP/DURHAM—Jeremy Hellickson is evolving incredibly quickly, and in ways that can be difficult to see at first. In the first inning of the Bulls’ 6-0 shutout of the Rochester Red Wings on Sunday, Hellickson did what he usually does: throw pretty much all fastballs. By my count, in fact, all 16 of […]
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Durham Bulls lose to Rochester Red Wings: With a Rally Monkey on their backs
DBAP/DURHAM—Just before the Durham Bulls came to bat in bottom of the ninth inning last night, the DBAP video screen flashed the words “Rally Time.” That was understandable: the video guys often do that before the Bulls’ final at-bat if they’re losing, and it was 6-4, Rochester. The thing was, the Bulls had been rallying […]
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Durham Bulls beat Rochester Red Wings: The Devil is in the details, but the Angel redeems them (and himself)
Photo by D. L. AndersonAngel Chavez DBAP/DURHAM—Or is God in the details? There seems to be some debate about this. Last night at the ballpark, it was almost certainly the devil, and God—or his Angel, anyway—didn’t sweat the small stuff, needing just a single swing of the bat to take care of the Bulls’ come-from-behind, […]
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Durham Bulls lose to Rochester Red Wings: Not so fast (and plenty of famine)
http://freelancewritingbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bigstockphoto_feast_famine_-_road_sign_26868121.jpg DBAP/DURHAM — Rochester didn’t beat Durham last night, 4-3. “We just gave it away,” lamented Bulls’ manager Charlie Montoyo after a dispiriting loss that saw the Bulls fail to exploit enough of the opportunities granted them by the league-worst Red Wings—and by the umpires—before returning a smorgasbord of favors late. They wasted a solid […]