Monsters opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Gareth Edwards’ often alluring Monsters is an ambitious effort at making an indie sci-fi road trip film. The premise: In the near future, North America is besieged by extraterrestrial creatures who arrived when a spaceship that was carrying biological specimens back from abroad broke […]
David Fellerath
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Carolina RailHawks to play next year in provisionally sanctioned North American Soccer League
Andy Mead/ YCJ-Carolina RailHawksThe Puerto Rico Islanders celebrate winning the first and only USSF-D2 Pro League title, after defeating the Caroina RailHawks in Cary, N.C. on Oct. 30. It was rainy and cold last night in Toronto, Canada as the Colorado Rapids own-goaled their way to the MLS Cup, defeating FC Dallas 2-1 in overtime. […]
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Hillsborough’s Logan Pause features in United States’ 1-0 victory over South Africa
Wiki CommonsLogan Pause The United States men’s national soccer team returned to South Africa today. The dread vuvuzelas were out in force, but the stakes were considerably lower. On a day in which soccer players the world over left their clubs to join their national teams the world over for mostlymeaningless games, 29-year-old Hillsborough native […]
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Tamara Drewe is a lively, if flawed, Thomas Hardy update
Tamara Drewe opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Tamara Drewe, a bustling country comedy, achieves the goal of both invoking a certain English literary tradition and lightly satirizing our nostalgia for it. It’s a loose updating of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowda loose, clangorous and often imaginative updating in […]
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NASL announces two new teams: Atlanta and NSC Minnesota, but whither St. Louis?
If there’s Division 2 soccer next year, it will stretch from Alberta to the Caribbean, and according to an announcement this morning, the locales will also include Atlanta and suburban Minneapolis. After meeting in Miami earlier this week, the team owners who comprise the North American Soccer League (NASL) announced this morning that they are […]
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Inside Job explains the bank crisis
Inside Job opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: One of the most maddening things about the banking crisis was how huge it was, and how seemingly arcane. The Bush administration’s $700 billion emergency bailout of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citigroup and other players in the financial services sector struck many Americans as […]
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Still waiting for Lefty
Last week, after 22 years, I left the Democratic Party. On Tuesday, I’d again faced a humdrum slate of legislators that purported to represent my interests. On Friday, I entered Durham County’s Board of Elections. There were five choices on the form: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Unaffiliated and Other, a write-in choice. Really there were only […]
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U.S. Soccer Federation disciplines Montreal Impact for actions after match in Cary
Andy Mead/ Carolina RailHawksMontreal’s Tony Donatelli gets tackled by the RailHawks’ Amir Lowery during the Oct. 17 semifinal. Inside Minnesota Soccer reported yesterday that the United States Soccer Federation disciplined three Montreal Impact players, a coach and the entire organization for their actions after the conclusion of a game in Cary against the Carolina RaiiHawks […]
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Keys to the game: Carolina RailHawks to meet Puerto Rico tonight
Keys to the game for tonight’s USSF-D2 Pro League championship. This is the return leg of the two-legged final. The RailHawks lost 2-0 on Sunday in Puerto Rico. The winner is determined by aggregate score, so… 1. The RailHawks must outscore the Islanders by at least two goals. At the end of normal time, it’s […]
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Long journey for RailHawks to culminate in biggest crowd of season tonight
File David FellerathAfter the victory over Montreal two weeks ago, the players and coaches huddle on the field. On the eve of tonight’s season finale and USSF-D2 Pro League championship game between the Carolina RailHawks and the Puerto Rico Islanders, I think back to the way the season began with a pratfall at WakeMed Socccer […]
