Speas celebrates his winning PK, as seen on author’s laptop. ESPN3—One week after the Duke women fell short of a national title, the UNC men have a chance to bring home a trophy. The Tar Heels were forced to rally twice against UCLA, and after 110 minutes were played between the third-ranked Tar Heels and […]
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Duke women’s soccer advances to NCAA final; UNC men host St. Mary’s today
goduke.comKelly Cobb celebrates a goal earlier this season. The Alaska native was profiled in The New York Times Thursday. ESPN3.com—The No. 3-ranked Duke Blue Devils women’s soccer team moved one step closer to a national championship with a convincing display in Kennesaw, Ga., against ACC rivals Wake Forest, ranked sixth in the country. Durham native […]
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Werner Herzog’s riveting death row doc, Into the Abyss
Into the Abyss is now playing in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Space and time precluded a review in this space last week of Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss. Herzog’s fervent fans surely rushed out to see this over the weekend, but for those who need coaxing, let me urge you to do […]
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Soccer powers triumph: Duke women, UNC men both rally to advance in NCAAs. UNC women upset.
KOSKINEN STADIUM/ DURHAM AND FETZER FIELD/ CHAPEL HIILL—Man, it was a beautiful day for soccer, with bright light, russet leaves and balmy temperatures. (Among other things, it was a convenient supporting exhibit for those of us who wonder why the American professional season can’t be played from fall to spring, as it is in Europe.) […]
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The youthful blue machine of Duke women’s soccer; Blue Devils advance to NCAA final 16 with 7 other ACC teams
goduke.comKelly Cobb and Kaitlyn Kerr (in background) celebrate a goal earlier this season. KOSKINEN STADIUM/ DURHAM—It was my first night catching the Duke women’s soccer team. What took me so long? A well-organized, cool-headed squad that features a strong defense, deadly wing play and a slick customer in the playmaking role, this is probably the […]
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UNC men’s soccer takes No. 1 seed in NCAA tourney; how good are they?
David FellerathUNC’s defense repels another Boston College attack on Nov. 13, 2011 WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—The UNC men’s team doesn’t always play attractive soccer, but they’re very difficult to beat. It’s essentially a team of bruisers, of tightly coiled holding midfielders. But the third-ranked Tar Heels are a tough nut to crack. And lethal. On […]
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The end of the world in Take Shelter
Take Shelter opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: It’s surely an accident of timing, but Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols’ tense miniaturist portrait of domestic paranoia, resonates with a recent obsession in this reviewer’s household: the gripping AMC series Breaking Bad. In each, there’s a happily married middle-class couple with a single, […]
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The story of a painting in The Mill and the Cross
The Mill and the Cross opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Only several dozen works of the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel are known to have survived since his career in the mid-16th century. His depictions of low-country peasant lifescenes of feasting, harvesting, hunting and so onare prized for their warm, […]
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The thirty-two hundred penny opera
On Sunday I was in New York City, in a crowd of excited people. A man with a bullhorn was shouting, and we cheered in spite of our nervousness. We were at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in hopes of winning the right to purchase two front row seats to The Book of Mormon, the hottest […]
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Mozart’s Sister acknowledges complexity even as it invents facts
Mozart’s Sister opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Most conventional biopics face the problem of turning a life that may have lasted 75 years into a satisfying two-hour narrative. The result is compression and oversimplification, and more fatally, the perpetuation of the false notion that our lives follow an orderly dramatic […]
