We’re not sure what to make of this, but give Ric Richards some credit: He’s tearing down his traditional McDonald’s location on Kildaire Farm Road in Cary, the one that wasn’t particularly good for the earth or for the human body. In its place, he’s erecting a $2 million Mickey D that may attain the […]
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Strangers on a train in Transsiberian
Transsiberian opens Friday in select theaters Brad Anderson’s Transsiberian isn’t a top-rank thriller: It’s highly effective in places, laughable in others. But, as a representative of a badly degraded genre, this tale of treachery and drug trafficking aboard a train traveling from Beijing to Moscow has a certain workmanlike integrity. In the opening scene, we […]
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“Cranky” Indy critic Godfrey Cheshire draws raves for film
More than four years ago, Indy critic Godfrey Cheshire began work on his documentary Moving Midway, a chronicle of the relocation of his ancestral Wake County home and a meditation on the changing South. The film, which opens in the Triangle this Friday, has been garnering excellent notices. Among them are: New York Times critic […]
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David Foster Wallace dead at 46
David Foster Wallace, one of the most giftedand maddeningwriters of his generation, died yesterday, apparently of a suicide, at his Claremont, Calif. home. The AP announcement is here. Although he wrote a massive, Pynchon-esque novel, Infinite Jest, Wallace was best read as a brilliantly digressive essayist, on topics including tennis, cruise ships, grammar and lobsters. […]
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Obsession: Not a cologne sample in your N&O
Subscribers of the News & Observer, and more than 70 other newspapers across the country, found a DVD inserted into their papers this morning. The film is a documentary called Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West. The film itself is two years old, and it is now receiving its second major push. The last […]
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Last stand for Bulls tonight?
Perhaps it’s because Dan Johnson (and Fernando Perez, Justin Ruggiano et al.) are in Tampa now, but the Bulls have fallen behind two games to none in the best-of-five International League finals against the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre Yankees. In Pennsylvania last night, the Bulls lost 1-0 in a 13-inning pitching duel. Tonight, the teams take the […]
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Last stand for Bulls tonight?
Perhaps it’s because Dan Johnson (and Fernando Perez, Justin Ruggiano et al.) are in Tampa now, but the Bulls have fallen behind two games to none in the best-of-five International League finals against the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre Yankees. In Pennsylvania last night, the Bulls lost 1-0 in a 13-inning pitching duel. Tonight, the teams take the […]
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David Price named Minor League Player of the Year
We heard this guy was good. Now David Price is the USA Today Minor League Player of the Year. The Tampa Bay Rays’ $8.5 million left-handed pitching prospect began the season in Class A ball, before spending most of the summer at Class AA Montgomery, Ala. He came to Durham in August, where he lost […]
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Welcome to Triangle Offense: The Indy Sports Blog
The sporting scene in the Triangle is a lively one, and we’ve learned that quite a number of our writers are avid fans of one ballclub or sporting discipline or another. So, we’ve decided to open the Independent up to regular sports commentary with our own sports blog, Triangle Offense. We expect that our interests […]
