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There’s never been a doubt about the Triangle’s place in the development and celebration of music. We’ve praised the bands, the labels and the festivals.
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There’s never been a doubt about the Triangle’s place in the development and celebration of music. We’ve praised the bands, the labels and the festivals.
With the obvious signs of the recession on Franklin Street, it’s easy for some legacies to go unrecognized in the face of bars and Tar Heel-centric retailers. But in our immediate radius, there is one tradition that spans back to 1978 with a thriving community and no sign of letting up.
Oh, the ’80s. They were so memorable — you know, neon spandex, shoulder pads, jean shorts, Eddie Money —wait, how old am I?
Spring break can be a mixed bag. On the one hand, there’s that posse of friends who are Bahamas-bound. Then again, there are plenty of folks stuck in town or at home, wallowing with roommates or parents. Whether you’re voyaging or wanderlusting, Dive’s got some tips on how to maximize your break, be it the best traveling records or easy day-trip or weekend destinations. So don’t be blue if there are no exotic beaches in your future. Even Chapel Hill can feel tropical when there aren’t midterms clouding your outlook.
No one would ever choose to cast themselves in a self-depreciating way, as a biting, sarcastic and selfish asshole. Then again, we haven’t met Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti). “Barney’s Version” pulls the audience into the last place we expect to be: rooting for the egotistical prick.
“Based on a True Story:” five words that a horror flick inserts at the beginning to set the audience sinking further into their seats before anything happens.
Not since “Wedding Crashers” has there been such an epic bromance, as the testosterone-filled friendship between buddies Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James).
Zoloft, Prozac, Viagra, and Anne Hathaway’s shaky Parkinson’s-ridden body knocking over one of her several prescription bottles — a more apt title would be “Drugs and this little thing called Love.” Director Edward Zwick seems to have no problem hitting us over the head repeatedly with his take on the U.S. drug powerhouses.
From the screenwriter of the “The Devil Wears Prada,” comes another story about a career that threatens to eat the lead alive and how she copes with the struggle.
In this week’s Dive, we take a look at one of the finest dining traditions in the area — taco trucks. While these providers of meals on four wheels aren’t typically revered with the same respect as restaurants, we thought it was high time these paragons of cheap and tasty tortilla- wrapped fare received their due. Staff writers Rachel Arnett, Joe Faile and Jonathan Pattishall sampled various fare from Carrboro’s Captain Poncho’s, Taqueria Jalisco and Costa Azul. As patron Ryan Mills put it, “I want to spend my whole paycheck here, but I can’t because it’s so cheap.” As impoverished and constantly hungry college students, we couldn’t have said it any better ourselves.
For the uneducated among us, it’s easy to assume that brewers — steeped in their work, talent and community — might find outsiders as undeserving of tricks of the brewing trade. If this is why you won’t be attending the Home Brew Festival at the Nightlight, you should think again.
Kenneth Waters (Sam Rockwell) is wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a woman in his small town of Ayer, Mass. Waters is behind bars for 18 years while his sister Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) struggles to earn her GED, BA and her law degree and ultimately pass the bar exam so that she can help him.
It’s kind of funny story, but “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” isn’t all that funny. It raises your spirits to a degree and Zach Galifianakis adds a certain charm, but the slow-moving plot makes it feel like you’re stuck in the psych ward right there with the protagonists.
Despite the fact that it’s French, this film is just another rendition of a familiar script from the Hollywood moneymaker — scruffy man melts the heart of the icy female lead.
“Animal Kingdom” only depicts two kinds of animals: the criminals fighting for freedom and the bystanders hoping they can remain unharmed in the seedy underworld of Melbourne, Australia.
For those of us who remember the “Walk the Line” star that captured hearts with a brooding finesse, “I’m Still Here” serves as the unraveling of our nicely sewn image of Joaquin Phoenix.
Set in England in the early ’60s “An Education” doesn’t fall victim to the expectations some might lay on a romance between an older man and a much younger woman.
Not since “Remember the Titans” has a true story graced cinema screens with such poise and vision. “The Blind Side” is more than just a feel-good story. Director John Lee Hancock skillfully and honestly crafts a two-hour tale of inspiration and resilience from the biography of Michael Oher.Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), a fiery Southern belle with good Christian values, welcomes Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) into her home. He’s never had his own bed, and he thrives under the support of the Tuohy family after a lifetime of struggle.Sandra Bullock makes up for a weak showing in “All About Steve” with a believable portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy that hits the mark all the way down to the Southern accent. It’s clear that no one, not even her friends, should mess with this Terminator in designer jeans. From her snarky comments to traipsing onto the football field to give Michael pointers, her care for her children jumps off the screen. Quinton Aaron’s portrayal of Oher shatters all of our ideas about a troubled teen from the projects without being cliché. Both sweet and strong, his ideas about family life allow him to put his troubled past behind him. From coaxing the family to eat dinner around the dining room table to using his protective instincts to defend them, Aaron makes a connection with the audience despite speaking little — the real life Michael Oher now plays for the Baltimore Ravens.Although it sounds a bit cheesy, as most feel-good sports movies are, the clarity and startling performances protect it from ever wandering down that path. “The Blind Side” is not just a story of football, but one of family and forgiveness — one that will not be easily forgotten in a long line of true sports stories.
Just about anything is possible in the 1976 world of “The Box.” A strange mix of amputated toes, nosebleeds, “employees,” morality, Mars and potential alien embodiment should really trip the audience out. But with so much to work with, director Richard Kelly drops the box.Norma (Cameron Diaz) and husband Arthur (James Marsden) live a seemingly happy life outside D.C. in 1976. Their son, Walter (Sam Oz Stone), even brushes his teeth without being asked. He attends the private school his mother works at, and Arthur works for NASA. But the seams of their innocent life come undone when Arlington Steward (Frank Langella), a missing, potentially dead, come-back-to-life scientist, offers them the cash opportunity they desperately need, if only they will press a button to kill someone else. Cue the dramatic music.I don’t know which part is less believable: the ability of Steward to control people and raise time- traveling waters or the fact that this family really needs that million dollars that desperately. Norma notes that it’s a bit too early for Arthur to have a mid-life crisis as he drives away in his Mustang. Either way, audiences across the country should roll their eyes at the inability to convey any convincing acting, directing or life to make us buy into this bedlam. Diaz is so slow to the punch it’s painful, and Kelly’s pandemonium with little cause and value dampers the unsustainable plot.Most of the detail that is weaved into the storyline ends up being unnecessary. Good teaser details that trick the audience into wandering down all the wrong paths make a good movie. But the audience shouldn’t be gasping for breath, peeved and disappointed at the end, either.A poorly orchestrated weave of bizarre occurrences does not make a film good. Instead, it just it makes it plain old annoying. Kelly just didn’t know where to stop with this one. Translating a 10-page short story to a two-hour conundrum proves unlikely and challenging. It’s too bad they even tried.