Calling Young Film-Makers!
Cary, NC — Sister Cities Association of Cary is holding a video competition in which the winner will not only have their film screened at The Cary but will win $500 in cold hard cash. Here’s the scoop. Read more
The Cary Theater – It’s Open!
Cary’ Town Crier John Webster welcomes the crowd to the grand opening of The Cary.
Cary, NC — Saturday, Feb 22, 2014, The Cary theater in Downtown officially opened with a celluloid ribbon cutting, a town crier proclamation and all of town council on hand to do the honors. Read more
“The Cary” Opens This Weekend
Cary, NC — Downtown advocates have been waiting patiently for over a year for the opening of the renovated theater to be called The Cary on East Chatham Street. Read more
Cary Theater Nears Completion
Cary, NC — The sidewalk is back open and the marquee is installed at The Cary, the once and future movie theater and entertainment venue on Chatham Street. Read more
The Cary Theatre, a Revived Community Treasure
Story and photos by David Lindquist.
Cary, NC – Sixty years ago, three iconic structures represented a past, present and future of the small town of Cary. Read more
Movies: Linsanity Coming to Morrisville
Morrisville, NC — For one night only, Linsanity is coming to Park Place in Morrisville on Thursday, October 24, 2013. Get tickets now.
The Linsanity Story
Linsanity tells the story of Jeremy Lin, a third-string player for the New York Knicks who lit up the NBA over the course of a dazzling month in late winter of 2012.
It’s a great sports story and, most remarkably, all true. In January, Lin was sleeping on a relative’s couch. In February, he was going toe-to-toe with 15-time All-Star Kobe Bryant and sending the Lakers home in defeat.
But there was more. Lin was a graduate of Harvard. The last guy from Harvard to play in the NBA was Ed Smith in 1954, according to Basketball-Reference.com.
And, Lin is Chinese-American. Basketball has become big business in China, with elite players like Yao Ming making the jump to the NBA. But Chinese-Americans? Not so much. Lin’s success was avidly followed in China and across Chinese ex-pat communities.
As a Knicks fan, I was all over Linsanity from the very beginning. But it quickly spread like a wave across the U.S. and around the world.
What was Jeremy Lin’s game like during that period? Electrifying, crazy, sometimes sloppy. He’d dive to the hole, hit an impossible three and then turn it over. But his energy and passion lifted an injured team to a string of remarkable victories.
A cartoon by my friend Joe Petruccio that appeared on KnicksNow captured the spirit of the moment.
Soon enough, the stars came back, Lin got his own injury and he was traded to the Houston Rockets after the 2012 season. The Rockets have been in rebuild mode, adding James Hardin at shooting guard and, most recently, Dwight Howard at center. If the Rockets can pull together around their own “Big Three,” we might see Jeremy Lin on ESPN again in 2013-2014.
In the meantime, go see Linsanity on October 24 if you like a good sports underdog story. It’s an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
I’ll be there, wearing my Knick shirt.
Trailer
Get a taste for Linsanity with this trailer or see it on YouTube.
Event Details
Linsanity
Carmike Park Place
Morrisville, NC
Thursday, October 24, 2013
7:00 pm – 9:03 pm
CineBistro Luxury Theater Coming to Cary
Cary, NC – Waverly Place announced today that it has signed a 20 year deal with CineBistro, a luxury movie theater with in-theater dining. CineBistro will occupy approximately 35,000 square feet on two floors at Waverly Place. Read more
Movie Review: Star Trek “Into Darkness”
Movie review by Robert Geiger for CaryCitizen.
Cary, NC – First off, a little disclaimer. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since the original series aired when I was growing up in the 60-70’s. I’ve seen every episode and movie of every series with all the crews and captains over the years. I’m a child of the “space age” inspired by vision and possibility of humanity reaching for the stars. I was eating in my kitchen watching the first man set foot on the Moon. NASA was news and the space program was our hope for Mankind’s future. Read more
Last Moments of the Galaxy Theater
Cary, NC – CaryCitizen reader David Gill shared with us his photographs of the last moments of the Galaxy Theater in Cary.
End of the Galaxy
The Galaxy Theater, at the corner of Cary Towne Boulevard and S.E. Maynard Road, showed art films and foreign films. But the Galaxy owed many months rent to York Properties and closed their doors in November. York plans to redevelop the site around a Harris Teeter supermarket.
And so, the Galaxy came crashing down in a cloud of dust just over a week ago.
Last Moments
David Gill captured the last moments of the Galaxy. Visit Flickr to see the complete slideshow.
Movie Review: 42
Morrisville, NC – 42, based on the story of Jackie Robinson, is in the great tradition of heroic baseball movies. If you liked Field of Dreams and The Natural, you will enjoy 42. Read more