David FellerathA fan protests a personal foul committed by Western Carolina during the second half. “The Gulf War did not take place.” —Jean Baudrillard CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM/ RALEIGH—I arrived at Carter-Finley Stadium an hour before kickoff, for what would turn out to be the longest Saturday night I’ve had in a long time. I hadn’t seen […]
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Dreams of Sainey, sueños de Suarez: RailHawks pound Pumas, 3-0
Andy Mead/ YCJ/ Carolina RailHawksCaleb Norkus, left, and Claudio Suarez WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—It was an odd affair all around at WakeMed Soccer Park. A rather hastily arranged late-season friendly against Pumas Morelos, a Mexican second-division side from the city of Cuernavaca, was enlivened by the presence of Claudio Suarez, a distinguished 41-year-old retired Mexican […]
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Get Low doesn’t go low enough
Get Low opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: There was once a man, a very scary man, who lived by himself in the Tennessee woods. No one in town really knew him, but all sorts of stories were told that frightened two generations of children. Folks said he murdered somebody, and […]
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Quiet desperation in Mademoiselle Chambon
Mademoiselle Chambon opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: If nothing else, the low-key drama Mademoiselle Chambon demonstrates that the French, too, have would-be lovers who suffer quietly through emotional and sexual repression. This film, by Stéphane Brizé, is a miniaturist portrait of a provincial carpenterand husband and fatherand his relationship with […]
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Welcome to the hothouse, or do we really have to play soccer in August? RailHawks fall to Rochester 2-0.
Andy Mead/ YCJ/ Carolina RailHawksGregory Richardson battles Rochester defender Jonathan Greenfield. WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—OK, first things first. Why does American professional soccer insist on being a summer sport? It was 91 degrees at kickoff tonight in Cary, and the heat index said it was 102. It was hot even for baseball, a sport that, […]
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Tilda Swinton helps revive the Italian epic in I Am Love
I Am Love opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The ascension of the severe art house actress Tilda Swinton to the A-list of international, Oscar-winning cinema is sort of bizarre. It’s like a scrawny coffeehouse poet who becomes a fixture on Oprah’s Book Club, or a downtown noise artist who becomes […]
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Mexican standoff in Durham as Cruz Azul rally for 1-1 draw; RailHawks defeat Rochester
David Fellerath Águila fans on the Cruz Azul side O’KELLY RIDDICK STADIUM/ DURHAM—It wasn’t quite like the Secret Game, but for a gringo like myself, and my equally gringo companion, witnessing this affair was like being privy to a vibrant underground event that will go unnoticed by the cultural mainstream. But we knew about this […]
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Family of Dean Smith: Coach has “progressive neurocognitive disorder”
In the wake of newsreports about the health of UNC’s Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean Smith, the 79-year-old coach’s family released a letter to the public revealing that Smith has a “progressive neurocognitive disorder which affects his memory.” In it, they acknowledged that his memory has weakened in recent years, and also note that […]
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Winter’s Bone brings lurid entertainment to a grim landscape
Winter’s Bone opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: A stiff, frightening chill blows through Winter’s Bone in an early scene. Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly is desperately trying to hold her household together. Mama is sick and incapacitated, Daddy is on the lam and the metaphorical wolves are circling. A not-so-kindly neighbor drops […]
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Something from nothing
See our Triangle Offense blog for more World Cup coverage. When soccer players shoot on the run from an oblique angle, they levitate. As a player puts all of his energy into that one shot, the centrifugal force of the shooting leg pulls his other leg from underneath him, and the entire body is left […]
