The classic road-trip carol “Over the River and Through the Woods” has taken on a new meaning for the Carolina Hurricanes this Thanksgiving. It describes the route they’ll have to take to get back to respectability in the National Hockey League. It also might describe where authorities will be looking for coach Paul Maurice next […]
Chris Vitiello
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Flyers subdue Canes despite Dwyer’s two shorties, 5-3
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—The Jeff Skinner bobbleheads arrived late. And so did the Carolina Hurricanes. Photo by D.L. AndersonAre the Canes wearing out Cam Ward? He lasted only halfway through the 5-3 loss to the Flyers on Monday. The Canes fell convincingly to the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-3, on a night when Skinner was honored by a […]
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Canes fend off Penguins in gut-check game
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—The all-stars finally all looked like all-stars. The coach finally pushed the right buttons. And the Carolina Hurricanes finally played a game worth more than the ticket price. Carolina’s newest winger Eric Staal scored his first even-strength goal of the year, Jeff Skinner notched his team-leading seventh goal and set up two others, […]
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Drive to Raleigh to see one photograph? Do it.
“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. The French theorist’s book investigates the relatively young medium through the question of why certain individual images fascinate him. Burk Uzzle’s “Red, White, and Blue” (2007) One image at the […]
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Duke and UNC team up to make poetic connections between disciplines
“One Makes Many: A Conference of Poetic Interactions” Nov. 11–12 Duke and UNC As a literary genre, poetry faces a perpetual struggle to remain relevant to American readers. Lacking the general readership of fiction and nonfiction, American poetry has retreated into its own corner of academia. But students and faculty at Duke University and the […]
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Canes’ losing streak at three after late Devils goal
VERSUS (TV)—After a dead-on-arrival performance against Dallas at home on Sunday afternoon, one would have expected the Carolina Hurricanes to bring the pulse of a hummingbird to their road date in New Jersey on Tuesday. It’s still too early to prime the paddles on the Hurricanes’ season, but after losing their third straight in New […]
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Lost weekend in Raleigh: Canes dumped twice
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—The Carolina Hurricanes entered a home-ice weekend anxious to see how they stacked up against a pair of first-place opponents. The Hurricanes could only manage Ray Milland’s bleary stare after a lost weekend that saw them drop two home games by a cumulative score of 10-3. But after dual thumpings at the hands […]
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Canes’ pains: Jokinen out 3-4 weeks
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—When Hurricanes’ forward Jussi Jokinen fell on top of Tampa’s Ryan Shannon after a face-off Tuesday night, it looked pretty ugly. About a month’s worth of ugly, as it turns out. File photo by Peggy BooneJussi Jokinen, seen here against Boston last season, won’t return until at least Thanksgiving after a leg injury […]
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Lightning succumb to Canes’ complete game, 4-2
RBC CENTER—The last time the Tampa Bay Lightning visited, they thumped the Carolina Hurricanes to open the season. Tuesday night, the Canes put that behind them. Behind two goals each from Jeff Skinner and Chad LaRose, and 28 saves by Cam Ward—many on an extended Tampa two-man advantage—the Hurricanes proved the more formidable meteorological phenomenon, […]
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NCMA destabilizes and illuminates the Dutch master in Rembrandt in America
Rembrandt in America N.C. Museum of Art Through Jan. 22, 2012 Rembrandt van Rijn’s first name signifies genius like Albert Einstein’s last. Incomparable in his handling of light and psychological detail, the Dutch master inhabits the pinnacle of portraiture. Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art hosts Rembrandt in America, a terrific chance to see a […]