Jersey Boys ★★ Now playing Like the bubblegum pop music it celebrates, JERSEY BOYS feels like an assembly-line mashup of disparate genres. Consigned to the rote biopic arc of rise-fall-reunion, this screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning jukebox musical can carry a tune, but it never quite finds the right rhythm. It’s not that the […]
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Kick in the Grass: Carolina RailHawks host LA Galaxy next Tuesday, but will you have a seat?
With their 2-1 win over Arizona United SC last night, the LA Galaxy advanced to the fifth round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Their next opponent is a familiar interleague foe: the Carolina RailHawks. The RailHawks have hosted the Galaxy in Open Cup competition two straight years. And for two straight years, the […]
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Great Scott: Goodwin the newest RailHawks U.S. Open Cup hero as Carolina defeats Chivas USA
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—In soccer, it’s commonly called a penalty shootout. However, the Laws of the Game officially refer to the tiebreaker as “kicks from the penalty mark.” Regardless of the moniker, it’s a construct that’s long been the subject of intense fan debate. Some decry it as a contrived method to determine the winner […]
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Movie review: 22 Jump Street is a sequel about sequels
22 Jump Street ★★★ Now playing Whereas 21 Jump Street (the 2012 film, not the 1987 TV series it was based on) was a remake about remakes, 22 Jump Street is a sequel about sequels. It starts with a cheeky “Previously on …” lead-in and ends with closing-credits clips that tease a menagerie of faux […]
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Turf burned – FC Edmonton pummels Carolina RailHawks 6-1 to close NASL spring season
WEBCAST—For all the rapturous hosannas heaped on the Carolina RailHawks following their home win last Saturday, their Mr. Hyde side was on acute display this afternoon at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton. It’s a lunacy of silver linings to note that the RailHawks doubled their 2014 road goal output during today’s 6-1 shellacking at the feet/heads […]
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The return of the prodigal goalscorer: Carolina RailHawks defeat Tampa Bay Rowdies 2-0, extend 21 home match unbeaten streak
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—After Brian Shriver scored two goals for the Carolina RailHawks in their last game of 2013, giving him a personal- and league-best 15 for the year, the NASL Golden Boot winner alluded to his future plans. “I love it here, and hopefully things work out,” the out-of-contract Shriver said at the time. […]
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Carolina RailHawks clip Charlotte Eagles 2-0 to advance in U.S. Open Cup
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—The last time the Carolina RailHawks faced the Charlotte Eagles in a competitive soccer match was the first round of the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The RailHawks won that game 1-0 at WakeMed Soccer Park. Four years later, another U.S. Open Cup clash between the in-state avian rivals produced a […]
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Twisty neo-noir in Cold in July
Opens Friday Cold in July begins and ends with gunfire. The opening blast is indecisive and ambiguous, and the legal rectitude of the act does little to offset its moral quandaries and emotional baggage. The final one is a bloody barrage, copious in carnage and dead-eyed righteousness. The first round is fired by someone burdened […]
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Dr. Jekyll, I presume? Carolina RailHawks cage Silverbacks 2-0, extend home unbeaten streak to 19 games
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—Perhaps in no sport is home field advantage more pronounced than soccer. In England, it’s not uncommon for certain teams to go decades without winning a match on a perennial competitor’s home ground. But throughout the course of virtually any season, a team will win some on the road and lose some […]
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“Balls to the wall’: Carolina RailHawks man the ramparts for 1-0 win over New York Cosmos
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—After the Carolina RailHawks were thrashed 4-nil by the expansion boots of Ottawa Fury FC a mere week ago, the last thing anybody expected was that the RailHawks could rely on their defense for a win against the defending NASL champion New York Cosmos. But even after losing two players to bookings […]