Paul Savery, the Indy’s resident English soccer fanatic, seems more concerned with British self-destruction than with the U.S., in typical English fashion. In case you haven’t had it drilled into your skulls by ESPN as of yet, the match kicks of at 2:30 p.m. After England performances against Mexico and Japan I have been instructing […]
Joe Schwartz
Bio: Joe Schwartz is a former INDY Week staff writer who works for soccer.com in Hillsborough. He's been a Gooner since he fell for Thierry Henry in 2005, and he still believes in Arsène Wenger.Email: [email protected]
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Preview: World Cup day one, at long last
Four years is a long time to wait. Just ask a high school freshman or Sarah Palin. But, soccer fans, our wait has warmed to anticipation and now, finally, to the first World Cup ball being kicked on African soil. The world’s game, as it’s called, becomes a bit more worldly at 10 a.m. Friday […]
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Five to watch: an intercontinental tip sheet
There’s still time to join our ESPN bracket challenge! Triangle Offense, the Indy‘s sports blog, will be covering the World Cup daily. We’ll have writers based in the Triangle; Richmond, Va.; and Rio de Janeiro, along with photos and reports from the scene in South Africa. Catch the United States vs. England Saturday, June 12, […]
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Cary nurse charged with murder, felonies in Chapel Hill nursing home death, hospitalizations
A registered nurse was indicated today and charged with second-degree murder of a Chapel Hill nursing home resident, according to a N.C. Department of Justice press release. Angela Almore of Cary also faces six counts of felony patient abuse related to the provision of morphine for other patients at the Britthaven nursing home at 1716 […]
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Drogba’s injury is bad news, and not just for the Ivory Coast
This is the first post of many to come as Triangle Offense follows the World Cup with insights both local, in South Africa, Europe and South America. Today’s take comes from Thad Williamson, an assistant professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond and a Chapel Hill native who has watched the English Premier […]
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Civil rights lawyer Ashley Osment passes away at 46
Ashley Osment, the senior attorney at the UNC School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights who spent her life fighting discrimination, misconduct and advocating for education, died this weekend after a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 46. Osment was well-known locally both for her casework and for managing the Internationalist Book Store. Her […]
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Franklin Street has a bigger cigarette butt problem; we cannot lie
While health department officials are quick to celebrate the obvious benefits of an indoor-smoking ban, smokers have been pushed outside, their butts now flapping in the wind. Photo courtesy of TRUStudents display their bags of butts. Chapel Hill High School student volunteers of Orange County Tobacco.Reality.Unflitered bagged and tagged 5,866 discarded filters on the town’s […]
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Elia Bizzarri and the ancient art of rocking chairs
More information about Bizzarri’s work Boggs’ furnishings and classes It takes Elia Bizzarri 30 hours of work spread across a month for drying time to split a 1,500-pound white oak log, shave the boards, fashion the spindles, bend the legs, groove the pine seat and assemble a traditional rocking chair. He uses a 2,000-year-old process. […]
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Sara Isaacson hopes to return to the military if Congress repeals “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Rep. Price’s letter to Secretary Gates Isaacson’s letter to Obama You can’t put a price on Sara Isaacson’s integrity. Not $79,285.14. Not stripping her of her childhood dream of serving her country, just months away from her realizing it. Three years into UNC’s ROTC program, Isaacson, 21, says she “came out to myself” as a […]
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Interview with Speaker of the House Joe Hackney
Workers were chiseling away on the final touches of the state seal outside the General Assembly last week when the Indy sat down with Speaker of the House Joe Hackney. The Orange County Democrat previewed the short session with us, speaking about the budget, education and ethics. Independent Weekly: How can citizens grade the work […]