Disturbing reports are circulating tonight in the soccer blogosphere that the two professional soccer teams based in St. Louis are on the verge of collapse. AC St. Louis, the expansion team for the USSF D2 Pro League, and the Saint Louis Athletica of the Women’s Professional Soccer league, both owned in part (at least until […]
David Fellerath
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Indy to join with Carolina RailHawks in celebrating soccer with new and classic films
courtesy of PELADAGwendolyn Oxenham, co-star of the documentary PELADA, in Uyuni, Bolivia We’re just three weeks away from the start of a little soccer competition in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins June 11, and to mark the month-long occasion, the Independent Weekly and the Carolina RailHawks will partner to sponsor a series […]
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The City of Your Final Destination never arrives
The City of Your Final Destination opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The Ismail Merchant-James Ivory partnership ended in 2005 with the death of Merchant, the producing end of the team that also included screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films initially covered Indian-British themes (Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie) and later moved into […]
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Introducing the adjusted USSF-D2 table: RailHawks far behind in 8th
Andy Mead/ Carolina RailHawksThe RailHawks’ Cory Elenio goes up for a header against FC Tampa Bay’s Pascal Millien. For any number of reasons, the USSF-D2 doesn’t have the luxury of achieving a pleasing, European-like regularity with its scheduling. Instead of having a league in which every team plays once or twice a week and stays […]
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RailHawks player ratings vs. FC Tampa Bay, 5/14/10; plus Jeremy Christie interview
Andy Mead/ Carolina RailHawksThe lineup on Friday night GK Nic Platter – 4: Seemed to be caught out of position on a pair of lobs that were just off target. Probably not much he could have done on either goal.D Matt Bobo – 5: Both goals came from defensive breakdowns. The first was a header […]
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RailHawks bolster battered defense with David Hayes signing
Just in the nick of time: After seeing the quick decimation of its defense early in the season, a reinforcement has arrived for the Carolina RailHawks. David Hayes, a veteran of pro soccer since he began his career with D.C. United in 1999, has signed with the club, the RailHawks announced in a press release. […]
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Carolina Theatre marks Kurosawa centennial
Akira Kurosawa 100th Anniversary Film Retrospective Carolina Theatre May 14-27 There are, common film wisdom holds, three seminal Japanese film directors from the classical era: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa. They’re the holy trio, the Ford, Hawks and Hitchcock of Japanese cinema from its late embrace of sound in the 1930s to Kurosawa’s […]
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Roy Williams’ troubles mount: David and Travis Wear to transfer
File photo by Jeremy M. LangeRoy Williams After the UNC Tar Heels mostly dismal 2009-10 campaign finally came to a close with a 79-68 loss to the University of Dayton Flyers in the NIT finals, Triangle Offense’s UNC correspondent Rob Harrington wrote: The focus now shifts to the offseason. To wit, will there be any […]
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The worlds of babies in a new documentary
Babies opens Friday in select theaters (see below) Our rating: Everyone loves looking at babies, but they’re rarely the subject of a feature film. This we realize while watching the often enjoyable, if intellectually questionable documentary Babies from director Thomas Balmes. While the prospect of following four babies’ first year on earth has a built-in […]
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Now, what next for the NCMA?
A proper movie theater? As magnificent an achievement as the expansion is, it’s a bit frustrating that none of the $72.3 million could be directed toward a movie screening facility worthy of a fine regional museum. What passes for a movie theater is actually a 272-seat lecture hall with no actual screen (movies are projected […]
