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Story by Jim Bishop Theater at Eastern Mennonite University is pleased to continue its season with one of the great achievements of the American musical stage, Cabaret. The three-time Broadway smash hit, directed at EMU by Patrick K. Reynolds, theater department chair, will be presented 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 14-16 and the same…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amid a backdrop of men of various sizes and numbers of tattoos alternatively kicking and punching the air and occasionally a trainer wielding oversized protective gloves, the almost preternatural calm of Tyler Moyer stood out to me. At least what I was reading was calm. I soon found out that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I’m talking with MMA athlete Dustin Honeycutt backstage about his match – which he lost by submission – and about the broken thumb that he suffered early on that pretty much ate away his chances of coming out on top.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen As usual, it’s feast or famine time in Hollywood. The studios wait until the very end of the year to roll out their Academy Award-worthy films, figuring all the Oscar voters suffer from A.D.D.
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Item by Chris Graham The Puppy Project and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network are joining hands on a special project this holiday season. Donations to The Puppy Project will be split with the food bank to deliver gifts of Sparky, a plush, stuffed puppy, to children in the food bank’s outreach programs –…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Alas, the Golden Age of Musicals is long gone. Might as well toss in the Silver Age of Musicals and the Bronze Age of Musicals as well. And the latest big, splashy Broadway musical to be brought to the screen, “Dreamgirls,” is just more proof that if…
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Story by Chris Graham Political observers across the Commonwealth have the 26th House District race on their radar screens – and for good reason. The contest between Democrat Lowell Fulk and Republican Matt Lohr is very much a toss-up at this stage – which is headline news for a political campaign in the Republican-leaning Shenandoah…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The group from John C. Myers Elementary School in Broadway was wrapping up its Thursday-afternoon field trip to downtown Harrisonburg when it happened upon a real-life civics lesson. Republican Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Jerry Kilgore was at a Court Square eatery holding court with reporters on the issue of, yep,…
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