A star is on a direct path to smash Earth and everyone on it as flat as a pancake. What to do? Why, build a spaceship that takes a chosen few to another planet to start again, that’s what. That story is as old as the Bible–you know, Noah and the Ark? George Pal had […]
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In extreme sports
Motocross shouldn’t be anything new to locals. During the spring and summer, you can find dirtbikin’ kiddies to well-seasoned mudders hopping around dirt mound tracks all over the quad-county area. But hold on, this is where “Best Bets” takes on the echoing deep-voiced edge of a monster-truck announcer: You’ve never seen motorcross biking like this […]
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Forces of Will
One year and a few days ago, we ran the first installment of “ProActive,” a series of in-depth profiles of “some of the Triangle’s most noteworthy, and notorious, progressive activists.” We intended to run these stories for about six months, but as the list of potential subjects grew, and as the stories got a positive […]
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CyberGulch I
“It’s cheaper and it’s where all the cool people have moved. It makes sense to be where all the action is.” –Uzoma Nwosu, who’s planning to move his multimedia company, Audioverse, from Chapel Hill to Carrboro, in a News & Observer story about Carrboro’s budding technology scene.
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Mission to Mars
Assuming they can get their act together, NASA engineers project that we’ll have a human on Mars by the year 2020, which is when the painstakingly researched sci-fi flick, Mission to Mars, takes place. Playing on our worst hopes and fears about Martians and outer space, the film sees to it that something indescribable happens […]
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CyberGulch II
“When I was a kid, Carrboro was just a place on the other side of the tracks. We went to Carrboro to get Kentucky Fried Chicken.” –Cat’s Cradle owner Frank Heath, who grew up in Chapel Hill, in a News & Observer story about Carrboro’s budding technology scene.
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Speaking freely
As an attorney who serves on the editori- al board of Southern Exposure, an investigative magazine known for challenging the status quo, I cherish the First Amendment. Perhaps that is why Hal Crowther’s misconceived tirade in defense of John Rocker’s “right to be an idiot” [Feb. 23] so enraged me. Crowther’s argument that major league […]
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In horror
The Nevermore Horror and Gothic Film Festival is sure to inspire fear in all–even those whose spring fever has reached full bloom. The festival, held at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham, March 3-5, will screen tasty horror flicks from the 1930s to the present. The highlight of the weekend will be Joshua Kane’s performance […]
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Four Little Girls
During Black History Month, Internationalist Books is dedicating the last three Mondays of February to three civil rights films by Spike Lee. While last week they showed Lee’s widely-distributed Malcolm X, this Monday they’ll showcase the less widely seen, yet no less acclaimed 4 Little Girls, a documentary made for HBO. The powerful film retells […]
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In edutainment
Maybe you’re not a fan of opera, but you still love drama and music. And perhaps because it’s Black History Month, you want some entertainment with an ethnic flair. The Carolina Theatre has an event practically tailored to your tastes. “The Mandinka Epic” is a “history lesson full of poems, rhythm, ceremony and dance” all […]