MAJOR LAZER CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013 While waiting for the stagehands at Thursday night’s sold-out Major Lazer concert at Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle, I found myself in a conversation with an attractive, 26-year-old Hare Krishna woman about how people abducted by aliens often see visions of giant owls. Aside from taking orders from […]
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Duke’s Ryan Kelly makes a colossal return and returns a favor to Miami: 79-76
Photo by Nicole SavageRyan Kelly found his stroke against Miami. CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—“Well, I thought we were prepared for Ryan Kelly, but obviously not for THAT Ryan Kelly.” — Miami head coach Jim Larranaga We’ve seen three versions of Ryan Kelly this year: the Ryan Kelly, who, before injuring his foot in January against Clemson, […]
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Life and Nas were good
Nas and DMX perform at the Durham Performing Arts Center Sunday, March 3. 9th Wonder hosts the 7 p.m. show. Tickets are $63.75–$121.75. Gone is the poetic elegance of the streetwise New York emcee. Gone, too, are the late nights when my college buddy, Himieh, would call to ramble in his lisping Liberian accent about […]
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No “North Carolina Comeback” for Tar Heels as Duke steals a win
File photo by Al DragoTyler Thornton, in action during the 2011-12 season CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—The war of attrition played out in two distinct parts in tonight’s Tobacco Road clash between the No. 2 Duke Blue Devils and the UNC Tar Heels (16-8, 6-5). In the first half, Roy Williams’ boys looked sharp, and played aggresively […]
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C.B. Claiborne on being Duke’s first black basketball player
Duke PhotographyC.B. Claiborne dunks during a game against Maryland. At this time, Maryland was also one of the few schools open to black players. This year, Duke University commemorates “50 Years of Black Students at Duke University”—a nine-month celebration that includes lectures, receptions, panel discussions and the compiling of archival material. In 1963, Duke completed […]
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Duke’s convincing win over N.C. State is so much sweeter than revenge: 98-85
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—The first time these two teams played, N.C. State (16-8, 5-6) had gone nine consecutive games without a loss. Coming into tonight’s game against No. 4 Duke (21-2,8-2), the Wolfpack had lost four of its last six games. They walked in Cameron Indoor Stadium with considerably less mojo than they had at […]
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Postcards from Duke’s two-game road-stretch
hikingviking/ Creative Commons You would have never guessed it, but Wednesday night’s Duke/ Wake Forest game was, in fact, Duke’s toughest game of the year. The Demon Deacons—led by Travis McKie and Devin Thomas—never lost control of the game, but lost absolute control of Mason Plumlee, who put up a career-high 32-points. The game was […]
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Life is too short to worry about Maryland. No worries for Duke: 84-64
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—“If you ask me, this administration is completely out of control with all of this Marilyn business…Life is too short to worry about Marilyn Monroe.”—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis In Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot, author J. Randy Taraborrelli explores the relationship between the Kennedy wives. Marilyn Monroe was a strand that they all […]
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Duke rebounds from loss and rains on Yellow Jackets: 73-57
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—It started snowing in Durham just minutes before No. 3 Duke (16-1, 3-1) and Georgia Tech (10-6, 0-4) squared-off against each other; and for the majority of the first half it might as well have been snowing inside—on Duke’s basket: The frozen Blue Devils started out cold, on a 27.3 percent shooting bust. […]
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Despite the loss(es), the Duke kids are all right
Photo by D.L. AndersonC.J. Leslie, giving his best effort and respect to Duke and Mason Plumlee For most college basketball teams, the reinventive time-span of rebounding from a monumental loss, can make days seem like months. But, for Duke, following their unsurprising 84-76 loss to then-No. 20 N.C. State seems like it happened so long […]