Still, it was anything but a basketball clinic Tuesday night. Before a sparse crowd of 1,829 at the Smith Center, the Tar Heels started out so sluggishly that Coach Sylvia Hatchell benched her starters in the game’s second minute. Not that it mattered. Despite the turnovers and poor execution, Wofford was even worse, struggling to […]
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Funeral for capitalism crushed by pigs!
You have to dig deep in The N&O for this one, but it seems that last Friday night in Chapel Hill, there was a dust-up between the Chapel Hill po-po and revelers at a party organized by Internationalist Books. Approximately 50 people were gathered to bury capitalism, a ritual that was to culminate with the […]
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NCSU-UNC rivalry hits Wikipedia
Is it true that: “Carolina is widely known for its excessive douche-baggery and losing at everything?” Perhaps. But wait: “State’s pranks are illegal and just gay.” Take that, Stater! The wolves and rams slug it out on wikipedia. Bring your popcorn (and insults) to the entry titled Carolina-NC State rivalry. h/t Paul Jones
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Senegalese dynamo lands in RailHawks’ lap
Jarrett over at Trisoccerfan.com reports that one unintended consequence of the decision by the Atlanta Silverbacks to sit out the 2009 season is that the team’s most valuable property, Macoumba “Mac” Kandji, is now contracted with the RailHawksdue to the small stake in the Cary team that is held by Silverbacks owner Boris Jerkunica. Despite […]
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Capital City Grocery closes in Raleigh
The latest attempt to establish a locally-owned, downtown grocery has failed. New Raleigh has the story, and a passionate discussion thread.
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The Slammer arrives in Durham
Durhamites dying to look at the pathetic mug shots of fellow citizens will want to dash out to a nearby gas station to grab a $1 issue of The Slammer. The Slammer is a cheaply produced tabloid that is almost entirely composed of the downcast scowls of citizens recently charged with criminal offenses. It’s been […]
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UNC defeats N.C. State 38-17! (So says NCAA 2009 video game)
Ed. note: N.C. State travels to Chapel Hill tomorrow for a noon showdown against the Tar Heels, which will be broadcast on regional televlsion. Jake Swiger, a UNC student who runs his own blog, www.tarheelbuckeye.blogspot.com, kindly sent us the results of tomorrow’s clash, as played on NCAA 2009, a video game from GamePlay Video. Thanks, […]
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How suitable is the DPAC business plan?
It’s here, all $46.8 million of it. For better or worse, Durham has piled its chips on a bet that the Triangle has enough disposable entertainment dollars to support a second large theater, one that will lean heavily on our appetite for touring Broadway shows with prices ranging from $25 to $70, plus a $7.75 […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Ashes of Time Redux
Ashes of Time opens Friday in select theaters I had the good fortune to live in New York City during the boom years of the Hong Kong cinema, a time when cinephiles lined up at double-bills of films by the likes of John Woo, Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam, and worshiped at the altar of […]
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Election Night along I-85
Among those not fortunate enough to live to see Nov. 4, 2008, was Studs Terkel, the 96-year-old oral historian of the common man who fell four days short of seeing an African-American and fellow Chicagoan take the White House. In the spirit of Terkel, I set off on a rainy night to troll the highways […]
