North Carolina

The Triangle

marla — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0600

Located in the heart of North Carolina, the Triangle is an area defined by the cities at its three points (Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh) and the universities within it (the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State). Each point of the Triangle is about half an hour away from the others.

A Chinese Cinderella and a Car with a Dangerous Appetite

Darren_Dahl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:33:54 -0600

The Asheville Film Festival wrapped up this weekend. The Year of the Fish, an animated take on a Chinese version of the Cinderella story garnered top film honors. Given America's perpetual fascination with gangsters, though, the comedy Randy and the Mob, a runner-up best feature award-winner, may prove to have the most legs.

For "The Savages," Many Restrictions Apply

Darren_Dahl — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:10:36 -0600

The fifth annual Asheville Film festival kicked off last night with The Savages, the eagerly anticipated film directed by Tamara Jenkins and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. In contrast with typical standards of Southern hospitality, the film's producers made festival goers run a gauntlet at the screening at the Diana Wortham Theatre.