Neil MorrisSeeing red at N.C. State’s 91-61 win over Morehead State RBC CENTER/RALEIGH—Considering N.C. State’s home clash against the Morehead State Eagles was game one of something called the TicketCity Legends Classic, there were an awful lot of tickets left unclaimed by the hometown (un)faithful. Officially, an announced crowd of 10,082 watched the Wolfpack out-everything […]
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Absent suspended Leslie, Wolfpack walk the Bulldogs to win season opener, 84-75
C.J. Leslie RBC CENTER / RALEIGH – With the eyes of the college basketball world – and the POTUS – focused on two teams dropping long-range bombs on the deck of an aircraft carrier 2,500 miles away, the opening shots of the 2011 N.C. State season—and the Mark Gottfried era—seemed muffled by comparison. Sandwiched between […]
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Jack and Jill is Adam Sandler’s new dumpster fire
Sony PicturesAdam and Adam JACK AND JILLBOMB. (Zero stars)Opens today At the heart of Adam Sandler’s latest comedic romp, Jack and Jill, are lessons about the extricable bonds of family and the existential duality of the human soul, encapsulated under the guise of a…oh, who the heck am I kidding? The degree of celebrity and […]
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Ugly result, beautiful game: Carolina RailHawks ousted from playoffs by NSC Minnesota Stars
Rob Kinnan PhotographyKupono Low laments after Carolina RailHawks semifinals loss to NSC Minnesota WAKEMED SOCCER PARK / CARY – When soccer enthusiasts rhapsodize about “The Beautiful Game,” their mind’s eye pictures the sort of contest that took place Saturday night at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. Yes, the second leg of the NASL semifinals series […]
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Beware the Ides of October – Carolina RailHawks fight for playoff lives Saturday versus NSC Minnesota
Rob Kinnan PhotographyPablo Campos and the rest of the RailHawks hope to avoid seeing stars this Saturday vs. NSC Minnesota The fault, dear readers, is not in the Stars. Yes, the Carolina RailHawks, winners of the 2011 North American Soccer League regular season title, face a one-goal deficit entering the second leg of the league […]
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The Thing is a pointless remake … er, prequel
Photo by Kerry Hayes/ Universal PicturesMary Elizabeth Winstead breaks out the flamethrower. THE THING* Opens Friday Considering it pits its heroine against a ravenous space alien whose man-eating orifice resembles a vagina dentata, you’d be forgiven for believing The Thing actually contains a thing or two to think about. Or at the very least, something […]
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Footloose remake gives us something old and something new
Footloose opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: The opening moments of Craig Brewer’s Footloose give us something old and something new. It begins with a static close-up of sneakers stomping on a beer-smeared dance floor strewn with crushed Dixie cups, gettin’ footloose to the familiar strains of Kenny Loggins’ smash title […]
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George Clooney’s new election thriller, The Ides of March
The Ides of March opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: George Clooney’s new film, The Ides of March, is only obliquely connected to the mother of all tales of political skulduggery, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. It does have a Brutus, however, in the form of a 30-year-old political operative named Stephen Myers, the media adviser […]
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Tonal duality of 50/50 more than a gimmick
50/50 opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: After his critically ballyhooed turn in the 2007 dramatic thriller The Lookout, it seemed as if stardom was right around the corner for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, previously best known as a regular on TV’s Third Rock From the Sun. Unfortunately, aside from his lead in […]
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Carolina RailHawks finish regular season with 4th straight loss, 2-1 to NSC Minnesota Stars
Rob Kinnan PhotographyCarolina RailHawks enjoy bittersweet celebration of NASL regular season title following loss to NSC Minnesota WAKEMED SOCCER PARK / CARY — The Good: The Carolina RailHawks celebrated their 2011 NASL regular season crown Saturday night under seasonable weather and before a near-capacity crowd of 6,234 at WakeMed Soccer Park, the third-largest attendance in […]