Nighty night: What being a bedroom community really means
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.
Search Results for Charlottesville
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Affordable housing the focus of Staunton leaders
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Staunton residents are worried about the apparent lack of affordable housing in the Queen City. Don’t think that the candidates for the three open seats on Staunton City Council haven’t noticed that.
Another perspective on the Tech-UVa. rivalry
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Column by Chris Graham After the 9/11 terror attacks, it became the custom around big-league baseball, once it got back up and running, to add a rendition of “New York, New York” to the traditional seventh-inning stretch. A sign that the nation was beginning to get over the shock and horror associated with the terror…
Earl Hamner blows me away
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “Hi, Chris. I am out most of the day, but will find you somehow. Reception, maybe? Earl H.” This was what greeted me to the Festival of the Book over in Charlottesville the other day. A handwritten note on a cocktail napkin – from Earl Hamner, whom I…
The Big Giant Faun and the 3 Little Oscars
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Once upon a time, a foreign fairy-tale movie snuck into the Academy Awards ceremony and waltzed off with three little Oscars. Now, we all know that foreign films are only supposed to win the “Best Foreign Film” award, of course, but this one took the golden statues…
I’ll pay my share
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Beep, beep … The guy behind us in the white luxury car was obviously heading to a fire. Had to be – he was driving 85, 90, easy. My wife had been trying to pass a semi on the mountain on the way to Charlottesville – innocently as…
Notes on ‘Notes on a Scandal’
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Back in the olden days, they just didn’t make teachers that looked like Cate Blanchett. For instance, my own third-grade teacher, Mrs. Odel, cruised up and down the aisles like a great grey battleship wrapped in a blue-and-white polka dot dress. Bad kids got whacked with a…
45 years and counting …
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Downtown Waynesboro has been the focus of those who want to see it return to some form of former splendor since way back in 1962. So … what do have to show for the past 45 years of work?
‘Dreamgirls’ leaves this American idle
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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…
No charges in Allen-blogger incident
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Story by Chris Graham Charlottesville Commonwealth’s attorney Warner D. Chapman said today that he will not recommend that charges be brought against supporters of Sen. George Allen who confronted a liberal blogger asking questions of the senator at an event at the Omni Hotel last month. “While several individuals could be charged with one or…
