Christmastime is rarely blockbuster time, but studios typically slate a few solid efforts for the holiday weekend and Christmas Day. The three major releases are: Dec. 22 “Downsizing” — When filmmaker Alexander Payne came up […]
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” burst into theaters with a staggering $450 million in global ticket sales in its opening weekend, confirming that the celebrated space adventure franchise remained a powerful force at the box […]
College football’s national signing day is still in early February. But that event has lost much of its luster now that the NCAA has instituted an early period for high school seniors to submit their […]
DOLLAR GENERAL BOWL Appalachian State vs. Toledo Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Ala. Saturday, Dec. 23, 7 p.m. | ESPN Preview: App State (8-4, 7-1 Sun Belt) becomes the second Sun Belt team ever to go to three […]
Devonate Cacok was boxed out as a rebound came off the rim in last Wednesday’s game at UNC Greensboro, but he went for the ball anyway. In doing so, he knocked UNCG’s James Dickey to […]
Duke and North Carolina are both ranked among the nation’s top 25 college basketball teams this week. That shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the combined histories of the neighboring rivals. It is, however, somewhat […]
LOS ANGELES — A great many people who now know the term “a cappella” probably didn’t before “Pitch Perfect,” the 2012 movie that charmed, annoyed and tickled us with its happy skewed fusion of sunburst […]
We always used to put a “moving the embassy” plank in the Democratic platform even though we never expected it to happen — or even thought it should before the larger issues about Jerusalem were […]
Before the question, how about a few statistics? The 20th century was mankind’s most brutal century. Roughly 16 million people lost their lives during World War I; about 60 million died during World War II. […]
“Few men have been as important in the intellectual renaissance of American conservatism as Richard M. Weaver.” After the North Carolinian’s premature death in 1963, these words appeared in an issue of a student publication, […]
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