On Sunday afternoon, more than 150 people, including notables from publishing, business and foundations, gathered in Raleigh’s Five Points neighborhood to meet Washington Post editor Martin Baron. Following a screening at the Rialto of the new film Spotlight, which dramatizes Baron’s role in uncovering a decades-long cover-up of clerical sex abuse in Boston, the crowd […]
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In a new TV documentary, a Latino soccer team triumphs over adversity in a changing Chatham County
A rural high school. A sports team composed of underdogs from society’s margins. A selfless, motivational coach. A state championship won by defeating schools with more money and resources. It sounds like the stuff inspirational sports entertainment is made ofand now, for Los Jets, it is. This is the story of Siler City’s Jordan-Matthews High […]
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Searching for the self-sufficient soul of basketball in the local semipro circuit
Bull City Legacy vs. Cary Invasion Saturday, May 10, 3 p.m. Walltown Park Recreation Center legacy.trblproball.com Basketball was invented in 1891 by a white man in Massachusetts. Nearly 125 years later, the most richly compensated people in basketball tend to be white men. And recently, a rich white man in California was secretly recorded by […]
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Full Frame 2014: Ukraine is Not a Brothel probes the shadowy machinations behind nude protest group Femen
When she vanished in Belarus, Australian filmmaker Kitty Green got a dose of unplanned publicity for her film. She’d been living among members of Femen, the Ukrainian feminist protest collective that had drawn worldwide notoriety for its topless street theatrics. In December 2011, members of Femen ventured to Minsk, the capital of neighboring Belarus, to […]
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Designing the future of Hopscotch
When Hannah Ross wants to talk about design, the first thing she shows me is an urban garden. The garden in question is Raleigh City Farm, which sits on a 1.3-acre lot north of downtown, across from the William Peace University campus on Blount Street. Because it’s early March, most of what’s visible is dirt, […]
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Growing older and bolder in Gloria
Gloria Opens Friday Some movies live or die by the charisma of the leading performer. Meryl Streep is that person in almost everything she’s in these days, but more interesting are the films that explore the inner lives of regular women, with relative unknowns in the lead roles. Happy-Go-Lucky, for instance, made a name for […]
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Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar
Omar Opens Friday Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar is the second Palestinian film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It’s a good, entertaining movie, almost a pop movie, about the young man of the title, a baker in Palestine. In the film’s opening sequence, we see Omar climb one of the 20-feet-high walls […]
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Stewart O’Nan on fiction, baseball and literature after 9/11
Stewart O’Nan 2014 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence reading Genome Sciences Bldg. 250 Bell Tower Rd., UNC Campus Thursday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. englishcomplit.unc.edu If Stewart O’Nan isn’t the hardest working man in the book business, he’s close: Fourteen novels in 27 years, plus nonfiction about baseball, a circus fire and a definitive anthology of Vietnam-era writing. His […]
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From the Duke-UNC game to The Book of Mormon, event presenters faced difficult decisions
When a major weather event hits, must the show go on? Last Wednesday, this showbiz adage was nudged from its slumber and sent into battle as area event presenters reacted to a winter storm that was approaching faster and more severely than many had anticipated. “While ‘the show must go on,’ we understand weather may […]
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Two fraying families in The Past
The Past Opens Friday Two years ago, Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi earned worldwide acclaim with A Separation. His tale of an unusual, wrenching domestic rupture won prizes from Latvia to Los Angeles, from Sydney to the Southeastern Film Critics Awards, along with an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A Separation examined a culture in […]