The Hurricanes’ next home game is Thursday, Dec. 15, when the Vancouver Canucks visit the RBC Center. Kirk Muller hasn’t even been able to get a haircut. The new coach of the Carolina Hurricanes has done well to be standing upright, much less keep his hair straight, after a first week that more resembled a […]
Chris Vitiello
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NHL realignment: what it means for Carolina
Goodbye, Panthers and Lightning. Hello, Penguins and Flyers. The Carolina Hurricanes will have different division rivals as early as next season. The National Hockey League’s Board of Governors ratified a realignment plan on Tuesday at their annual meeting in Pebble Beach, CA that both acknowledges the past and looks to the future. Twenty-six of the […]
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Penguins push Canes’ losing streak to six
RBC CENTER (RALEIGH)—The big stars set up the goals. The grinders scored them. And the penalty-killers finished off the last frantic minutes. That’s one of many narratives that a good team can follow to win a hockey game. It is not, however, a chapter that the Carolina Hurricanes can author right now, as they turn […]
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New coach, old result: Canes lose Muller’s debut
RBC CENTER (RALEIGH)—After losing his NHL coaching debut, Kirk Muller was all smiles. But with bloodshot eyes. File photo by Rob RoweCam Ward couldn’t deliver a win for coach Kirk Muller’s first game. The Florida Panthers prevailed, 3-1. “Honestly, I was really pleased,” Muller said after his Carolina Hurricanes lost 3-1 to the division-leading Florida […]
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NCSU Art+Design students and faculty futurize CAM Raleigh
ID:ENTITY CAM Raleigh Through Feb. 13 As you trot down the steps to the new ID:ENTITY show at CAM Raleigh, you will first become aware of its cumulative sound. Whether you find the audio interference of many multimedia artifacts vaguely comforting, like the heady slot machine din of a casino floor, or repellant, like holiday […]
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[Updated] Canes fire Paul Maurice; hire Kirk Muller
“Mo must go,” fans chanted last week during another Carolina Hurricanes home loss. Today, Mo went. At the end of a miserable November, the Hurricanes have dismissed coach Paul Maurice. General manager Jim Rutherford has replaced him with ex-Montreal great Kirk Muller. This is Muller’s first head coaching job at the National Hockey League level. […]
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Canes fall in Cole’s return
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—A little more than a week ago, the Carolina Hurricanes played one of their worst games in memory, losing 4-0 in Montreal. But after playing three fairly inspired games since then, the Canes were looking forward to exorcising the Canadiens in Raleigh on Thanksgiving Eve. Close, but no cigar. Photo by D.L. AndersonAnthony […]
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One percent for public art gets go-ahead in Durham
The Bull City is finally taking the public art plunge. The Durham City Council passed a resolution Monday night to devote up to 1 percent of the proposed General Capital Improvement Project (CIP) annual budget to the installation of public art at CIP sites and other locations around the city, including a priority area downtown […]
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At Flanders Gallery, a photograph that’s an ideal window into our times
Burk Uzzle Flanders Gallery Through Dec. 1 “It is not (it seems to me) by painting that photography touches art, but by theater,” Roland Barthes wrote in Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. In the book, the French theorist investigates the relatively young medium by mulling why certain individual images fascinate him. One image at the […]
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[Updated] Durham City Council greenlights public art program
UPDATED: 10:48pm Monday, Nov. 21. File photo by D.L. AndersonJaume Plensa’s light sculpture “Sleep No More,” at its unveiling in December 2008. DURHAM—The Bull City is finally taking the public art plunge. The Durham City Council passed a resolution Monday night to devote up to one percent of the proposed General Capital Improvement Project (CIP) […]