There was more evidence this week that a film production is indeed getting underway in Durham. Auditions for Main Street were held all week at Durham Convention Center. Two actors confirmed independently that they’d read for parts this week, and that the production is scheduled to begin in April. The casting agency is Telsey and […]
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Stokes, McClellan dropped from RailHawks roster
Defender David Stokes and goalkeeper Chris McClellan, both two-year veterans of the RailHawks, are no longer on the roster. As recently as yesterday, both players were still listed as part of the team lineup. McClellan played every minute of every league game last year, and recorded six clean sheets. Here’s his stat line, copied from […]
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Dan Antoniuk signs with Chicago indoor team
The last remaining major question mark from last year’s RailHawks squad has been forward Dan Antoniuk. Now it seems he signed very recently with the Chicago Storm of the four-team Xtreme Soccer League. According to this news item of Feb. 20, 2009, Antoniuk joined the team for that day’s game against the Detroit Ignition and […]
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RailHawks add Scottish defender Paul Ritchie to roster
Coach Martin Rennie won’t have the only Scottish brogue at WakeMed this summer. Today, management announced the signing of 33-year-old defender Paul Ritchie to the lineup. Ritchie, who last played professionally two seasons ago, is a veteran of both the Scottish and English Premier Leagues, playing for Manchester City, Derby County and Portsmouth in the […]
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N.C. Central to join MEAC?
According to the Herald-Sun, NCCU, which botched its move to Division I last year (read Jaymes Powell’s account in the Indy here) and found itself a pariah among the majors, adrift without a conference, will be reconsidered for membership in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference next year. Hopefully, the moveif it transpireswill lend the program the […]
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The closing of Branch Gallery leaves a void in the Triangle’s contemporary art scene
It was a cold but clear night on Foster Street last Friday in Durham. The Third Friday gallery circuit was in progress, but in a fitting sign, it was nearly impossible to locate the blue Plensa beam that pierces the sky whenever art is happening at the Durham Performing Arts Centeras it was that night […]
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Wafting on the Eno dries up
After 19 years of leading men, women and children on bucolic, low-key trips on the Eno River and millpond, “Riverdave” Owen and his partner Riojosie announced on their Web site yesterday that the program, administered in conjunction with the Durham Parks and Recreation department, will cease operations. The reason: a dispute over proposed changes in […]
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Fines for broadcasting Williams’ f-word? WTF?
WRAL explains why broadcasters likely won’t face punitive action for transmitting UNC coach Roy Williams’ indiscreet use of a word that has been part of the English lexicon for several centuries. But then, ours is a culture in which CBS was assessed a $550,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission for unwittingly broadcasting an image […]
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RailHawks establish African strike force with Bundu signing
The Carolina RailHawks signed yet another of Martin Rennie’s old Cleveland City Stars. Officials announced today that Sallieu Bundu, a 2nd-team All-USL-2 selection in 2008, had agreed to terms with the Cary-based team. The Sierra Leone native is a striker and scored 11 goals last season for the Stars in league and non-league play. In […]
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Evan Rachel Wood to act in Theatre in the Park’s Romeo and Juliet
Evan Rachel Wood stopped being a full-time Raleigh resident years ago, but her family remains central to the city’s theater scene: Her father, Ira David Wood III, is longtime artistic director of Theatre in the Park, and recently finished a run in the title role of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Evan’s brother Ira David Wood IV was […]
