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Marc Maximov
Bio: Marc Maximov lives, works and rides his bicycle in Durham.
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Will the ELF, from Durham-based Organic Transit, save the planet?
“What is that?!” Take a spin in the ELF, a category-defying new vehicle built here in Durham, and prepare to have this question shouted at you by passing motorists. And bicyclists. And people on the sidewalk. Park in a public place, and get ready for an onslaught: “Does it have a motor?” “How fast does […]
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March Solve Locally puzzle
This month, the print version of the puzzle features standard-difficulty clues; expert solvers and masochists can find the hard clues here: Hard Clues PDF or Hard Clues Across Lite puzzle. This month’s puzzle rewards those with an intimate knowledge of the Triangle, with 11 entries that name reigning INDY “Best of the Triangle” title holders: […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Local filmmakers Joey Shanks and Kendall Music succeed at Slamdance with “Sci-Fly”
Chapel Hill filmmakers Joey Shanks and Kendall Music got a lot out of their five-day trip to Park City, Utah, last week: A world premiere screening of their eye-popping short film, “Sci-Fly”; face time with fellow artists, in screening rooms and at the parties that buzzed nightly; and a cemented partnership (more on that later). […]
Posted inBooks
Bill McKibben talks about the fight against climate change
Do the Math Tour Monday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. Page Auditorium, Duke campus Tickets $5 While the election was looming and the northeastern United States was drying its socks from the latest semiannual “storm of the century,” author-turned-activist Bill McKibben was girding for battle. The day after the election would see the start of his […]
Posted inCulture
Man vs. Machine at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
There were some surprise winners at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament last weekend in Brooklyn, even as last year’s victor, Dan Feyer, won his second straight championship. Filling in answers to a very difficult puzzle with a dry erase marker on a whiteboard before a crowd of 600 vanquished contestants, Feyer defended his title in […]
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Taylor Branch: UNC coaches won’t let their players talk to me
File photo by Jeremy M. LangeUNC’s Horned Dorset sheep mascot SONJA HAYNES STONE CENTER/ CHAPEL HILL—A packed house crammed the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater at UNC last night for a panel discussion titled “Big-Time Sports: What Needs to Change?” Moderated by Will Blythe, author of the irreverent chronicle of the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry To […]
Posted inSports
Watching really, really good pingpong at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials in Cary
Olympic-qualifying table tennis returns to Cary April 20–22, when the U.S. battles Canada for the few North American slots in London. See the USA Table Tennis website for updates. Top-flight table tennis, like that played over the weekend at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials in Cary, has a few things in common with rec room […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Chapel Hill native Michael Galinsky’s documentary about Brooklyn, basketball and corporate power
Battle for Brooklyn will screen at the Varsity theater on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. Galinsky and Hawley will be on hand for questions and will also show short clips they filmed of the Occupy Wall Street protests. So the New Jersey Nets want to move to Brooklyn, finally returning a pro sports team […]